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Tke Book of Missourians 



THE 



ACHIEVEMENTS AND PERSONNEL 
OF NOTABLE LIVING MEN AND 
WOMEN OF MISSOURI 

IN THE 

OPENING DECADE OF THE 

TWENTIETH CENTURY 




EDITED BY 

M. L VAN NADA 

ST. LOUIS 



T. J. STEELE & CO. 

PUBLISHERS 
CHICAGO 1906 ST. LOUIS 



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INTRODUCTION 






N times of prosperity we can form a just estimate of the achievements of 
the noted characters that have contributed to the growth of a state as well 
as nation. The State of Missouri containing an expanse of rich produc- 
tive soil, enjoying a climate congenial and salubrious, possessing untold amount 
of wealth in her mineral resources, should make her most worthy citizen proud; 
not in this alone, but in the large increase of her population from year to year, 
and she now possesses an inviting field for the Manufacturer, Merchant, Farmer, 
and all lines of business and professional endeavor. In presenting "The Book 
of Missourians " to the public it will not only be a source of profit and pleasure 
in its personal investigation, but will foster in the public mind a disposition to 
become better acquainted with the prominent men and women in social and 
business life, who have attained to places of distinctive credibility in the com- 
munity in which they reside. The information presented in this volume has 
taken much time to compile and arrange, as it covers a large territory. This 
compilation has been conducted by the most experienced editors and will be 
sought for by the leading libraries of the country, as well as furnish the home 
circle with an authentic personnel of the worthy characters of the great common- 
wealth of Missouri. 

THE PUBLISHERS. 

Chicago, January, 1906. 



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ALMOND B. COCKERILL. 

Almond B. Cockerill, manufacturer of 
spelter slab zinc. Born July i, i860, 
in Platte City, Mo. Son of H. Clay 
and Lalla E. (Almond) Cockerill. Ob- 
tained a high school diploma at Pritchell 
College, Glasgow, Mo., in 1872, and A. B. 
degree at same college in June, 1878. His 
father graduated at Harvard Law School in 
1853, was major of militia in Union army, 
war of Rebellion. Almond B. began his 
career as a school teacher. He taught school 
in 1878 and 1879 in Benton and Powhatan, 
Ark. Bookkeeper for E. D. Thompson & 
Co., tie contractors, from 1880 to 1885. 
Bookkeeper for coal company at Weir City 
1885 and until June, 1886; organizer of 
Weir City Zinc Company, with others, at 
Weir City in 1887, and has remained in the 
business; afterwards sold out and organized 
another company, building two plants near 
lola, Kans. ; sold out in 1903 and buitl 
larger works at Altoona, Kans. He is 
president of Cockerill Zinc Co., works at Al- 
toona and Pittsburg, Kan., and Union Brick 
Works, lola, Kans. Also operates individ- 
ually the zinc smelters at Nevada and Rich- 
hill, Mo. Vice-president Kansas Portland 
Cement Co., of Tola, Kans. Independence 
Cement Co., of Independence, Kans. ; 
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Altoona Vitrified Brick Co., of Altoona, 
Kans. Sales of spelter amounts to upwards 
of $2,000,000 annually, distributing in car 
lots nearly the entire product to points east 
of Chicago ; exports occasionally to European 
countries and Japan. He affiliates with the 
Bryan Democracy. Was married August i, 
1905, in Salisbury, Mo., to Miss Mary Mor- 
timer Mcllhany. Children : Zonla Cocker- 
ill Robinson, Nellie, Harry E., Maggie, 
Florence and Lalla Cockerill. Business and 
residence address, Nevada, Missouri. 



HERSCHEL BARTLETT. 

Herschel Bartlett, a member of the 
firm of Bartlett Brothers, and president 
of the Bartlett Brothers' Investment Com- 
pany, of St. Joseph, was born in Wash- 
ington township, Ripley county, Ind., No- 
vember 23, 1 84 1, and is a son of David and 
Phcebe (Ellsworth) Bartlett. 

Herschel Bartlett remained with his par- 
ents until of age, alternately farming and 
teaching school, and he accompanied the 
family in its removal to Atchison county. 
Mo., in 1858. They resided in the neigh- 
borhood of Tarkio until 1862, and then the 
whole family removed to St. Joseph, and 



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our subject became the employe of a local 
dry goods house and then became a distrib- 
i:ting clerk in the postoffice. In 1866 was 
founded what is the oldest and has become 
the largest and most comprehensive real 
estate business of this city. It was started 
by our subject in partnersliip with his 
brother, the late William H. Bartlett, merely 
as buyers and sellers on their own account. 
In 1874 they commenced negotiating loans 
for eastern parties and their investment busi- 
ness has now become the leading feature of 
the concern. About this date a third brother, 
David L., was taken into partnership, and in 
1898 the Bartlett Brothers' Investment Com- 
pany was incorporated, with Herschel Bart- 
lett as president; David L., vice-president, 
and William H. as secretary and treasurer. 
On September 23, 1881, Herschel Bart- 
lett was married to Emily P. Nye, who is a 
daughter of James A. Nye, of St. Joseph, 
and they have one son, Philip C. K., who is 
at Yale preparing for graduation in the class 
of 1908. Mr. Bartlett is an elder in, and 
has been one of the trustees of the Westmin- 
ster Presbyterian church. He is a member 
of the Republican party, and a first-class, 
representative citizen. Business address. 
No. 6 Safe Deposit building, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 



RICHARD EDWARD TURNER. 

Richard Edward Turner, who was en- 
gaged in the wholesale business in St. Joseph 
for a period of more than thirty-seven years, 
was born at Culpeper Court House, Va.. 
August 25, 1830, and is a son of Zephaniah 
and Susan (Tutt) Turner. 

Richard Edwaj^d Turner attended the 
public schools in Ohio and Missouri until he 



was fourteen years old, and such education 
as he has since received has been through 
contact with the world. At the age of four- 
teen he was clerk in the store of James A. 
Tutt at Millersburg, Mo., and in 1848 he 
took charge of the mercantile house of T. 
P. Bell, in Cooper county, which he con- 
ducted with success for some time. He next 
engaged with a wholesale and retail dry goods 
firm at Boonville, Mo., until the spring of 
1850, when he accepted a situation as book- 
keeper for Abram Nave, at Savannah, Mo. 
In 185 1 Mr. Turner went to Salt Lake City, 
Utah, with a stock of goods owned by Mr. 
Nave and himself, and spent the winter of 
1851-52 at that place. He found it neces- 
sary to exchange the merchandise in his 
charge for horses, cattle and mules, which he 
took to California and disposed of profitably, 
returning to Savannah in November, 1852, 
by way of the Isthmus of Panama and New 
Orleans. In 1854 Mr. Nave and partners 
sent Mr. Turner to California in charge of a 
second expedition. The part}- was made up 
of thirty men. with sixteen wagons, fifty 
horses and mules and 700 steers in the train, 
which he safely conducted to the ranch on 
the Sacramento river, and in the fall of 1854 
returned to Savannah by way of Nicarauga 
and New York. On Januan,' i, 1855, ^I''- 
Turner formed a partnership with Abram 
Nave and James McCord, to conduct, under 
his management, a retail store at Oregon, 
Mo. The venture was successful. In 1858 
they removed the stock to Forest City where 
the business was continued until i860. In 
that year Mr. Turner purchased the interests 
of his partners and associated himself with 
H. L. Williams and John M. Frazer, under 
the firm name of Turner, Frazer & Com- 
pany. The new firm conducted the business 
at the old stand until 1864 when they re- 



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moved it to St. Joseph and established a 
wholesale grocery house, the firm later be- 
coming incorporated as the Turner-Frazer 
Mercantile Company. A large store room 
was built at Third and Charles street and 
was occupied by them for some twenty 
years; it is now occupied by the Sheridan- 
Clayton Paper Company. Mr. Turner re- 
tired on May i, 1901. 

During these many years of activity Mr. 
Turner had many and varied interests. He 
has been a member of the board of trustees 
of William Jewell College, of Liberty, Mo., 
for twenty-five years and president of the 
board for six years ; is chairman of the board 
of trustees of the Hoagland memorial fund ; 
was president of the Merchants' Bank of St. 
Joseph three years; was instrumental in 
building the first street railway line and the 
first electric light plant in St. Joseph, and 
was president of the street railway company 
for twenty-five years, and of the electric 
light company for a considerable period ; was 
a promoter of the St. Joseph & St. Louis 
road, now the Santa Fe railway, serving as 
vice-president when the road was built; was 
connected with the company that built the St. 
Joseph 'and Grand Island road to Hastings, 
Neb. ; was president of the first Board of 
Trade in St. Joseph; and is a large stock- 
holder in the Jones-Payne Hat Company, of 
St. Joseph. Mr. Turner is pre-eminently a 
business man, business being his life and 
pleasure. He made moderate gain annually, 
and that satisfied him ; slowly but surely he 
earned his competency with the pleasing re- 
trospection that it had been fairly acquired. 
Mr. Turner has been a Ivlason for forty 
years, and is a member of the Missionary 
Baptist church. He is a conservative Demo- 
crat, favoring tariff for revenue only, and a 
gold standard. He is in good health and 



active and his future promises much of good 
to himself and society. Residence address, 
515 North Fifth street, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



JOHN A. KNOTT. 

John A. Knott, publisher, born June 29, 
1854, in Millersburg, Callaway county. Mo. 
Son of William D. and Martha Ann (Mc- 
Clelland) Knott. Educated in the public and 
common schools of Missouri. Began his 
career as a clerk in a country store, at 
the age of eight years, at five dollars per 
month. Afterward he embarked in the 
newspaper business, becoming thoroughly 
familiar with the various details of that call- 
ing. He has conducted successfully many 
newspaper enterprises. He was the owner 
and proprietor of the Osage County Leader, 
at Chamoise, Mo., Osage County Nezvs, 
Linn, Mo. ; established the Troy Free Press, 
Troy, Mo., in 1878; established the Lincoln 
County Nezi's, Troy, 1883. Was a member 
of the firm that bought the Hannibal Morn- 
ing Journal, in Hannibal, Mo., in 1886. 
Organized the Journal Printing Company, 
under which name it is now operated, and 
since the purchase has been its secretary and 
general manager, which has grown from a 
six-column folio to a seven-column quarto. 
Mr. Knott was a member of Governor A. 
M. Dockery's personal staff. Elected rail- 
road and warehouse commissioner in 1902, 
for a term of six years. President of Mis- 
souri Association of Democratic Clubs; 
President Missouri Press Association. 
President of Northeast Missouri Press As- 
sociation. Member of Christian Church, 
and in politics a Democrat. Married June 
9, 1880, in Troy, Missouri, to Miss Harriet 



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Breckenridge, whose father, Thomas E. 
Breckenridge, was in two campaigns with 
Fremont, the Western Pathfinder. Chil- 
dren, Ehzabeth Breckenridge Knott. Busi- 
ness address, 113 Broadway, Hannibal, Alo. ; 
residence address, 1102 Broadway. 



MR. JOHN SANFORD CORLEY. 

Mr. John San ford Corley, banker. 
Born October 14, 1868, in Oak Grove, 
West Carroll parish, La. Son of Wil- 
liam Jasper Corley and Mary Elizabeth 
(Oliphant) Corley. Educated in the com- 
mon schools of Texas. At the age of seven- 
teen became an office boy with the express 
company, Bremond, Texas. Remained with 
the company for eleven years, and then was 
promoted to the position of cashier in the 
Dallas office. In 1888 he accepted the posi- 
tion of accountant in the general auditor's 
office of the Texas & Pacific railway at Dal- 
las. One year after became paying teller of 
the North Texas National Bank, of Dallas. 
This was his first banking experience. In 
1890 he organized the Provident National 
Bank of Waco, Texas, and was its first 
cashier. In 1892 he accepted the cashier- 
ship of the well known banking firm of W. 
L. Moody & Company, of Galveston, and 
was with the firm several years. Mr. Cor- 
ley was offered, in 1900, the vice-presidency 
and management of the American Bank in 
the City of Mexico, but declined it. In 1901 
he organized the American National Bank 
of Oklahoma City, O. T., of which he was 
president until July 25, 1903. He sold his 
controlling interests so that he could accept 
the cashiership oS^the ^^'estern Bank & 
Trust Company of Dallas, Texas, a new in- 



stitution with a capital stock of $500,000. 
About the time he disposed of his interests 
in the American National Bank of Oklahoma 
City, the management of the City National 
Bank of Kansas City opened negotiations 
with him. Nothing definite was consum- 
mated until May i, 1904, when the 
presidency was offered and accepted by 
him. He was one of the directors of 
the Missouri, Kansas Oklahoma rail- 
way, and a director of the Texas & Okla- 
homa (Katy) System), of which he was 
the vice-president. Mr. Corley has long 
been recognized as a practical banker 
throughout the great southwest. He is a 
man of fine address, a keen judge of char- 
acter, and a tireless worker. His mastery 
of details has been much commented upon. 
Mr. Corley was married to Miss Lulu B. 
Sharp March 31, 1886, in KiKrkville, Mo. 
Four children have been born: Mary 
Virginia, Louise Marmaduke, Julia Oli- 
phant and Georgia Sharp. Politics, Demo- 
crat. Religion, Presbyterian. Business ad- 
dress, City National Bank. Residence ad- 
dress, 2304 Brooklyn avenue, Kansas City, 
^Missouri. 



JOHN SCOVERN. 

John Scovern is cashier of the First 
National Bank at Macon. Mr. Scovem 
engaged in the banking business at 
Macon City in the spring of 1882. 
when he became a member of the firm 
of Scovern. Logan & Wilson, of which he 
became the cashier. This firm carried on 
the banking business with success until 
March, 1883, when the members, at the 
solicitation of Mr. Scovern, decided to avail 
themselves of the advantages of the Na- 



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tional banking laws, organized, witli others, 
their present bank — the First National Bank 
of Macon City, of which Mr. Scovern is 
cashier. Before he engaged in the banking 
business. Mr. Scovern had established an 
enviable reputation as a capable and suc- 
cessful business man, and had accumulated 
considerable means. Known as a man of 
character and business ability, the banking 
firm of which he became a member at once 
commanded the confidence, and the business 
in their line, of Macon City and vicinity. 
The career of the firm of Scovern, Logan 
& Wilson was one of exceptionally gratify- 
ing success, and the First National Bank, 
the successor of this firm, has continued the 
success which the former inaugurated. Mr. 
Scovern is looked upon in banking circles as 
a cashier of more than ordinary ability and 
efficiency, and in the community at large is 
highly esteemed for his affable manners, 
accommodating disposition and thorough 
business qualifications. He is a native Mis- 
sourian, born in Clark county, March 7, 
1845. His parents were Samuel G. and 
Elizabeth (Gillins) Scovern. both originally 
of England. They were married in Ohio 
and settled in Clark county, Missouri, in 
1844. John Scovern, the subject of this 
sketch, was reared on the farm up to the age 
of twelve, when he entered the office of the 
Alexandria Reveille, the first Free Soil paper 
ever published in Missouri, to learn the 
printer's trade. He remained in the print- 
ing office for about eiglit years and learned 
the printing business thoroughly. At the 
age of twenty, he established the True Flag, 
which he published for about four years, 
from 1865 to 1869. Selling out his interest 
in the True Flag, he removed to Kirksville 
and engaged in mercantile business. In 
1870 he was married to Miss Emma Hay- 



wood, of Clark county, and in the following 
years he and George W. Browning estab- 
lished the North Missouri Register at Kirks- 
ville, with which Mr. Scovern was con- 
nected for about a year. He then removed 
to Glen wood and was successfully engaged 
in mercantile pursuits for about ten years, or 
until he embarked in banking at Macon 
City. Mr. and Mrs. Scovern have one child. 
Lula May, born July 20, 1872. He and 
wife are both members of the Episcopal 
church. Mr. Scovern is .a prominent mem- 
ber of the Masonic order. Residence ad- 
dress, Macon, Missouri. 



GEORGE WILLIAM DULANY. 

George William Dulany, lumberman, 
born April 2, 1855, at Paris, Mo. 
Son of William H. and Cynthia T. (Van 
Zandt) Dulany. Educated in the public 
schools of Hannibal, Mo. Graduate Eastman 
National Business College, Poughkeepsie, 
N. Y., 1871. The paternal and maternal 
great-great-grandfathers of George W., 
Joseph Dulany and William Maupin, were 
soldiers in the Revolutionary war. George 
W. began his business career as bookkeeper 
for Dulaney & McVeigh, Hannibal, Mo., 
in 1872. Then engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness under his own name, in Fort Scott, 
Kan., 1874. Purchased an interest in the 
firm of Dulany & McVeigh, Hannibal, Mo., 
1878. Now (1905) president of Eclipse 
Lumber Co., vice-president Empire Lumber 
Co., incorporated in 1890 under the laws 
of Minnesota. Treasurer Louisiana Long 
Leaf Lumber Co., Louisiana Central Lum- 
ber Co. ; secretary Standard Lumber Co., 
R. J. Hurley Lumber Co., Gem City Saw 



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Mill Co. Director of Rice Lake Lumber 
Co., Missouri Lumber & Mining Co., Han- 
nibal Saw Mill Co., Pacific Empire Lumber 
Co. All of the above incorporated compa- 
nies he assisted m organizing. In 1881 or- 
ganized the Empire Lumber Co., Eau Claire, 
Wis., and continued in the lumber business 
in the several companies enumerated. I\Ir. 
Dulany is a member of the Masonic order, 
Presbyterian in religious belief, Democratic 
in politics. Married April 13, 1876. in Fort 
Scott, Kan., to Miss Fannie M. Williams. 
Children : George William Dulany, Jr., 
Fannie Clifton Dulany. Residence address, 
Hannibal, Mo. 



JAMES M. DAVIS. 

James J\I. Davis, lawyer and banker, 
was born in Clark county. III, Septem- 
ber 25, 1837. He was the fifth child of a 
family of fifteen childreii, his parents being 
Alexander and Priscilla (McKay) Davis. 
His paternal grandfather, Solomon Davis, 
was a Virginian ; his maternal grandfather, 
William McKay, was a Marylander, both 
emigrating at an early date to Kentucky, the 
Davis family settling near Danville and the 
McKays at Maysville. At the former place, 
Alexander Davis was born and grew to man- 
hood, removing first to Illinois, and after- 
wards, in 1851, to Missouri, settling in Liv- 
ingston county, where he was a farmer the 
remainder of his life. James M. Davis was 
educated in private .schools kept in the old- 
fashioned log schoolhouses, afterward study- 
ing law with the Hon. Luther T. Collier, 
at that time a prominent lawyer in Chil- 
licothe, but now of Kansas City. He 
taught school at intervals, but in March, 



i860, was admitted to the bar and at once 
began the practice of his chosen profession 
alone. During his professional career of 
more than forty years, he has been associated 
with John E. Wait, W. C. Samuel and R. 
R. Kitt, all of Chillicothe. In 1872-3 he 
was judge of the county court of Living- 
ston county; from 1873 to 1878 he 
was the city attorney of Utica ; from 
1878 to 1880 he was prosecuting at- 
torney of Livingston county. At the 
election held in 1880 he was elected judge 
of the circuit court for the Seventeenth Judi- 
cial circuit, then composed of Caldwell, 
Carroll and Livingston counties. This 
position he held until September, 1891, 
when he resigned the same in order 
that he might resume the practice of 
his profession, his two sons, Arch B. and ^^^ 
W. Davis, having, previous to that time, 
been admitted to the bar, and then being en- 
gaged in the practice of the law. He has 
continued in the active practice of the law 
from that time, the firm of which he is now 
the head being J. AI. Davis & Sons, com- 
posed of himself. Arch B. Davis and W. W. 
Davis. 

Previous to 1887 he was connected with 
different banks, and in that year in connec- 
tion with others he organized the First Na- 
tional Bank of Chillicothe, of which he was 
chosen the first president, and the firm of 
which he is the head are the attorneys for 
that institution. He is also an extensive 
and successful farmer and breeder of fine 
stock. His country home some two miles 
west of Chillicothe is a magnificent farm of 
over 1.000 acres, being one of the finest in 
the State. He is one of the most sagacious 
and far-sighted business men in North Mis- 
souri, a proof of which is that he owns over 
4,500 acres of choice Missouri farm lands. 



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besides a large amount of city property ; all 
acquired witliout ever having given a deed 
of trust or mortgage or executing a promis- 
sory note. He was married October i8, 
1863, to Servilla McKay, of which marriage 
four children have been born, three of whom 
were living in 1900. Business address, Chil- 
licothe, Missouri. 



EDWIN R. WEEKS. 

Edwin R. Weeks, consulting electrical 
and mechanical engineer; "The father of 
electric light and power in Kansas City." 
Born at Westfield, Wis., December 25, 1855. 
Son of Joseph Van Rensselaer and Imogene 
(Cookson) Weeks. Educated in Kansas 
City schools, Phillips Exeter Academy, Ta- 
bor College and Spalding's Commercial 
College. Learned trade of mason, one of 
first postmen in Kansas City; several years 
in train service of Union Pacific railroad; 
superintendent, manager, general manager, 
vice president, and at all times managing 
director of The Kansas City Electric Light 
Company and of it's predecessor, the Kaws- 
mouth Electric Light Company, as well as 
of the Edison Electric Light & Power Com- 
pany (January 1883 — June, 1900), which 
companies, under his management, were 
among the most successful in the world, 
earning and paying over 200 per cent in div- 
idends in ten years; sold the electric light 
and power properties in Kansas City to Ar- 
mour & Company and formed the firm of 
Weeks, Kendall & Newkirk, consulting elec- 
trical and mechanical engineers ; practice in 
many states and territories, and abroad ; 
member American Institute of Electrical En- 
gineers, The Franklin Institute, American 



Association for the Advancement of Science, 
the International Electrical Congresses of 
1893 and 1904; past president The National 
Electric Light Association ; chosen with Dr. 
Herring, of Philadelphia, to represent the 
American Institute of Electrical Engineers 
and The National Electric Light Association 
on the Jury of Awards at the St. Louis Ex- 
position; one of the incorporators and vice 
president of the Kansas City Art Associa- 
tion and School of Design (now The West- 
ern Gallery of Art) ; member American 
Academy of Political and Social Science, 
The Civil Service Reform Association, The 
Sons of the Revolution; president The Hu- 
mane Society of Kansas City, Missouri ; de- 
livered addresses on "Electrical Education," 
"The New Light," "The Economic Value 
of Schools for Secondary and Higher Edu- 
cation," "Transportation — Past, Present and 
Future," "Applied Electricity," etc., before 
the Teachers' Institute, The Kansas City 
Athenaeum, The Commercial Club of Kan- 
sas City, and before clubs and conventions 
in New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, 
etc.; author of "Personal Observations of 
the Solar Eclipse" in Western Revieiv of 
Science — 1878, "Proper Construction and 
Maintenance of Circuits," "Central Station 
Operating Expenses," Underground Con- 
duits," etc., in Electrical World and Engi- 
neer and other technical journals, as well as 
of articles on "Electric Light and Power" 
in The Encyclopedia of the History of Mis- 
souri, "A Review of the History of Electric 
Lio-htins:" in the historical number of the 
Electrical Rcz'iezv, January, 1901, and many 
other articles on science — both pure and ap- 
plied. MaMrried in 1882 to Miss Mary 
Harmon, who was many years teacher of 
advanced mathematics and English litera- 
ture in the Kansas City Central High 



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School. Residence 3408 Harrison street, 
telephone 248 south ; office 604-607 New 
Nelson building, telephone 229 main, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



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CHESTER ALLYN SNIDER. 

Chester Allyn Snider, stock dealer. 
Born August 9, i860. Son of An- 
drew J. and Hannah (Berry) Snider. 
Educated in the public schools of Kansas 
City, and completed his studies in Bethany 
(West Virginia) College. At the age of 
twenty-one he began his career on his 
father's cattle ranch in Indian Territory, 
where he remained for four years. After- 
wards he entered the Evans, Snider, Buel 
Company, incorporated in 1889. He is a 
member of the Kansas City Club, Commer- 
cial Club and other clubs, also a director of 
Fidelity Trust Company. He served for 
five years in the directory of the Kansas City 
Live Stock Exchange, declining a further 
election. Mr. Snider was married August 
23, 1882, to Miss Lillie C. Hyatt. Her 
death occurred in 1883. On December 27, 
1888, Mr. Snider married Miss Olive Olga 
Oglesby, elder daughter of Governor Ogles- 
by, of Illinois. One child has been born, 
Catherine O. Business address, 170 Stock 
Yard E.xchange, Kansas City, Missouri. 



EDWARD LOWE MARTIN. 

Edward Lowe Martin. Railroad offi- 
cial. Born March 12, 1842, in Mays- 
ville, Mason county. ^Ky. Son of \Vil- 
liam and Margaret (Sheriden) Martin. Ed- 



ucated in private schools and academies of 
his native city, and at the age of sixteen he 
engaged in active business, first as shipping 
clerk in a wholesale grocery. From 1858 
to 1865 manager of entire business. After- 
wards was bookkeeper in hardware business. 
Served a short time in this position, and 
then took a like position in a wholesale gro- 
cery house in Cincinnati, O., and after 
twelve months' service in the business was 
admitted as partner in the firm, continuing 
in the business until 1868, when he removed 
to Kansas City, Mo., and engaged in the 
wholesale liquor business. He constructed 
and built the Kansas City distillery. Con- 
solidating the Kansas City Distillery Com- 
pany with the Distillery & Cattle Traders' 
Company he retired from the business in 
1898. Afterwards he organized the Mer- 
chant's Bank, and successfully wound up its 
business. In 1873 "'^s elected mayor of 
Kansas City on a reform ticket. For 
twenty years he was a member and treasurer 
of the board of education of Kansas City, 
Mo. Was district delegate to the first Chi- 
cago convention that nominated Cleveland 
for president. Delegate at large to St. Louis 
convention. Tendered the nomination for 
congress several years ago refusing the 
honor on account of pressing business. Was 
originator and one of the builders of the 
Kansas City Suburban Belt Railway, and 
the Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railway, 
and was president of the former until April, 
1900. Served as director in several Kansas 
City prominent banks, and has been vice- 
president of the Missouri, Kansas & Te.xas 
Trust Co., now the Guardian Trust Com- 
pany, which position he now occupies. He 
was interested largely in the Kansas City 
Street railway before it was purchased by 
the Metropolitan Company. He was one 



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of the originators of the Kansas City, Law- 
rence and Topeka raih'oad. He secured 
from Congress the charter for the bridge 
now used for the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. 
Paul Railway. He is a charter member of 
all the commercial organizations that have 
been founded in Kansas City since 1868. 
He was married, December 10, 1861, to 
Mary Elizabeth Ricketts, of Maysville, Ky., 
having two children, a daughter, Lulu M., 
wife of Thomas A. Gains, and a son, Ed- 
ward R., treasurer of the Kelley Milling 
Company. Residence address, 622 Wyan- 
dotte street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WALTON H. HOLMES. 

Walton H. Holmes. Born in 1861 
at Independence, Mo. Son of Nehemiah 
and Mary Rector Flowerree, of Fau- 
quier county, Va. Educated in the Kansas 
City high school and at the Christian Broth- 
ers' College at St. Louis, Mo. He early 
manifested a great capacity and talent for 
business and from the age of fifteen years 
devoted his vacations to work in the street 
railway office and among the workmen on 
the road. When sixteen years of age he 
organized and had the oversight of a force 
of forty men engaged in quarrying and 
dressing stone for him. When seventeen 
years of age he was made vice-president of 
the Kansas City & Westport Horse Railway 
Company, and became practically the mana- 
ger of the road. His selection was no empty 
honor, but was due to his knowledge of the 
duties devolved upon him, and his capability 
for their proper discharge. He was soon 
elected president of the company, and from 
that time has been a leader in every succes- 



sive movement for the improvement and ex- 
tension of rapid transit in Kansas City. In 
1886 he was the second to introduce the 
cable system in Kansas City to the displace- 
ment of animal power, and the first in the 
United States to demonstrate, in a practical 
way, the overhead trolley electric system. 
The newly equipped lines were the Kansas 
City & Westport, the Fifteenth street and 
Walnut street cable lines, followed by the 
Wellier Place and Independent electric lines. 
He was chiefly instrumental in effecting the 
consolidation of the Grand Avenue Cable 
Company and the Kansas City Cable Com- 
pany, under his own management, in 1894. 
This change demonstrated the advisability 
of further consolidation in the interests of 
both the company and the public, and chiefly 
through his efiforts those properties and 
others were merged and consolidated into 
the Metropolitan Street Railway. Of the 
enlarged and consolidated company Walton 
H. Holmes became vice-president and gen- 
eral manager, and his brother, Conway F. 
Holmes, general superintendent. Through 
their combined eft'orts the great system, sub- 
stantially as it exists in Kansas City today, 
has been built up. Mr. Holmes has aided 
actively in the establishment of parks and 
boulevards, in the building and re-building 
of both convention halls, having been vice- 
president of the Convention Hall Associa- 
tion, and in all the various undertakings of 
the Commercial Club, in which he has been 
a director. In October, 1900, at its conven- 
tion in Kansas City, Mr. Holmes was elected 
president of the American Street Railway 
Association. In May. 1902, Mr. Holmes re- 
tired from the street railway business and 
became one of the organizers and incorpora- 
tors of the Pioneer Trust Company, one of 
Kansas City's most important and success- 



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ful financial institutions, of which he has 
been the president since its organization. 

Mr. Hohnes was married in 1884 to Miss 
Fleecie PhiHps, daughter of Dr. W. C. 
Philips, of Austin, Texas, one of the most 
prominent surgeons in that state, who per- 
formed professional duties in the Federal 
army during the Civil war. She is also a 
niece of Judge John F. Philips, of the United 
States District court. They have born to 
them one son, Walton H. Holmes, Junior. 
Business address. Pioneer Trust Company 
building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



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JAMES M. CARPENTER. 

James M. Carpenter, real estate operator, 
born in Lincoln county, Ky., October 15, 
1832, son of John and Deborah Carpenter. 
He was reared in his native state and edu- 
cated at old Centre College, Danville. Com- 
ing to St. Louis in 1850 he began his busi- 
ness career here as collector for the PhcEnix 
Insurance Company at a salary of ten dollars 
a month. This work proved satisfactory to 
his employers and he was recommended by 
them and became bookkeeper and cashier for 
the executors of the estate of Judge Bryan 
Mullanphy. When the Mullanphy Relief 
Board was organized he was elected its first 
secretary. While filling this position he 
studied law, then turned his attention to the 
real estate operations, and has since devoted 
his time and talents to the development of 
the real estate interests of the city. Many of 
the wealthy real estate owners of the city 
are numbered among his clients, and he is 
the representative of one of the largest loan- 
ing agencies of the coyrttry, the Mutual Ben- 
efit Life Insurance Company, of New Jersey. 



He is president of the Rex Realty Company, 
and vice-president of the Rex Mining Com- 
pany, with mines at Joplin, j\Io. He is also 
vice-president and next to the largest share- 
holder in the Lindell Real Estate Company ; 
has been president of the Jefferson Bank, and 
is now a member of the board of directors 
of that bank, and president of the Hope 
Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 

Mr. Carpenter afiiliates with the Presby- 
terian church, and is president of the board of 
trustees and deacons of Compton Avenue 
church of that denomination. January 11, 
1859, Mr. Carpenter married Miss Caroline 
Clarkson, daughter of Dr. H. M. Clarkson, 
of Columbia, Mo., a native of Virginia. 
Business address, 825 Chestnut street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES L. LOMBARD. 

James L. Lombard, capitalist. Born 
January 6, 1850, in Henry, Marshall county, 
111. Son of Benjamin and Julia Eliz- 
abeth (Battles) Lombard. Educated in 
Lombard University, the school endowed by 
his father; also was a student at Farming- 
ton, Maine, and Bowdoin College. After 
leaving school he came west and engaged in 
business in Chicago, later engaged in the 
real estate business in that city. In 1875 
went to Creston, Iowa, where he entered 
into the banking business. He remained in 
Creston ten years. In 1885 removed to 
Kansas City, Missouri, where with his 
brother he established the present banking 
house of Lombard Bros. Became president 
of the First National Bank in Kansas City, 
Mo. The Lombard Bros.' Banking Com- 
pany was consolidated with tlie latter bank. 
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tional Bank and retired from the presidency. 
In 1882 he organized the Lombard Invest- 
ment Company, and became its vice presi- 
dent. In 1893 sold the entire holdings of 
the company. In 1889 Mr. Lombard went 
to London, England, and organized the 
United States Trust & Guarantee Com- 
pany. He also organized the Anglo-Ameri- 
can Land, Mortgage, Agency & Company in 
London. Also the Edinburgh-London In- 
vestment Company, of Edinburgh, Scotland. 
Is now one of the trustees of Lombard Uni- 
versity. Mr. Lombard was married Janu- 
ary, 1887, to Miss Eva Stiles, of Creston, 
Iowa. Business address, Lombard Bank 
building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



ALDEN A. BAKER. 

Alden A. Baker (deceased). The life 
of a good citizen is a record of accom- 
plishment and disappointment ; if he would 
contend for the prize of success and reach 
the goal of his ambition, confidently and re- 
liantly, he must pursue faithfully the long 
and weary road that leads to the summit. 
In the commercial world we see many of this 
class. Among them Alden A. Baker, de- 
ceased, a son of Nathan and Lydia (Wood) 
Baker, born July 7, 1837, in Bingham, 
]\Iaine, the place where his parents resided. 
He was a farmer's son, and had only the 
advantages afforded in deriving a common 
school education. At the age of twenty-one 
years he had concluded to leave his native 
state to better his fortune, if possible, and 
went to the state of California where he 
engaged in mining. He followed this avo- 
cation some eight years. It was in this field 
of labor where he reaped experience in the 



beginning of his successful business career, 
forming an independent resolution that in- 
stead of continuing in the mines with its 
uncertain expectations, he would return east 
as far as Topeka, Kan., and engage in the 
mercantile business in that place. He arrived 
in the month of October, 1867, where he 
conducted and managed one of the branch 
stores of the firm of Ridenour & Baker, 
wholesale grocers. He served two years at 
Topeka, Kan., all of this time having an 
interest in the firm of Ridenour & Baker. 
Afterwards, in January, 1870, he changed 
his business location and operated one of 
their branch stores in Emporia, Kan., for a 
period of eight years. In 1878 the whole- 
sale grocery business of the Ridenour & 
Baker Company was consolidated, and on 
December of that year he came to Kansas 
City, Mo., where the wholesale grocery 
house of Ridenour & Baker was permanently 
established, and his interest remained with 
the firm up to the time of his death, July 27, 
1903. In the life of Mr. Baker no duty 
has been neglected, no wrong has to be 
righted, in a long and laborious business life. 
If we could dwell on his social qualities and 
his domestic attachments of home and fam- 
ily, we can see the summing up of human 
endeavors. Conscientious and kind, con- 
siderate to others who were less successful, 
he quietly, without any ostentation, and not 
with a desire to be known, gave liberally to 
the poor and distressed humanity, and sup- 
ported many worthy charitable enterprises. 
He disliked notoriety in all of its forms. He 
was wedded to his business, which was sure 
to bring permanent progression ; the ups and 
downs of life were as familiar to him as any 
one, yet he always brought a cheerful look 
and word to his home, and did not burden 
anyone with any of his troubles. He wanted 



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to do things in the present, to know that each 
day and each hour was full of effort. While 
he did not possess a classical education he 
was a well informed man, a close reader of 
history, and kept well up in current events. 
He conversed fluently on almost any subject. 
He was a member of the First Congrega- 
tional church, Kansas City. In politics he 
affiliated with the Republican party, but was 
not a politician in any sense of the word. He 
was a member of the Commercial Club, Kan- 
sas City, Mo. He was married June 12, 
1868, to Miss Emily D. Sawyer, a daughter 
of Jonas and Betsy Sawyer, of Madison, 
Maine. A daughter has been born to the 
union, Stella, who graduated in the high 
school of Kansas City in the class of 1894, 
and now devotes much of her time to social 
and charitable work. Their residence is 913 
Holmes street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM HARRY WINANTS. 

William Harry Winants. Banker. Born 
October 10, 1845, '" Penn Yan, N. 
Y. Son of Harry L. and Cornelia 
Z. (Elmendorf) Winants. Educated in the 
public schools in Rochester, N. Y., and Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio. After leaving school he en- 
listed in the Union army with the Second 
Ohio Regiment, O. R. M.. in 1861. He re- 
ceived a lieutenant's commission in 1863 in a 
West \'irginia battery, and was in the service 
about four and one-half years, a greater 
part of the time in West Virginia and Mary- 
land. He was twice captured, at Weston 
and New Creek, W. Va. He witnessed the 
last grand review at Washing-ton. D. C, 
afterwards he removed to Kansas City, Mo. 
In 1865 he engaged in mercantile business 



for a short time, when he entered in the 
employ of the Kansas City Fire and Marine 
Insurance Co., as special agent. June 10, 
1867, he became connected with the old First 
National Bank, remained until the institution 
closed its doors in 1878, and at which time 
he was a cashier of the 'Stock Yards Bank, 
a branch of the First National. In 1878 he 
was appointed teller with the Armour Bros. 
Banking Company, and was promoted to the 
position of assistant cashier and then cashier. 
When the business of the bank was pur- 
chased by the Midland National Bank Mr. 
^^'inants was made cashier of the latter bank, 
and was afterwards promoted to the vice- 
presidency. Since the consolidation with the 
National Bank of Commerce he has been the 
vice-president of this solid institution, and 
a director and stockholder in the same. Mr. 
Wiants has been treasurer of the Kansas 
City Board of Trade for over fifteen years. 
Member of the Kansas City Commercial 
Club and its former vice-president, and pres- 
ident of the Kansas City Clearing House As- 
sociation for ten years. Politically he is a 
Republican. In 1878-79 was a member of 
the Kansas City council, and served as 
mayor in the absence of that official. During 
the Spanish- American war Mr. Winants was 
lieutenant colonel of the Third INIississippi 
regiment, but was not able to serve on ac- 
count of pressing business at home. In the 
early days of Kansas City he was a member 
of the Craig Rifles. He is a thirty-second 
degree Mason ; a Kinght Templar ; a Noble 
of the Mystic Shrine; a member of the K. 
of P., and Elks. He served two times as 
chancellor of the Knights of Pythias; was 
exalted ruler of the Elks two years. Mr. 
Winants was married February 25, 1868, 
to Emma A. Christie, of Kansas City. 
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W. P. Borland, an attorney of Kansas City. 
He is a director and treasurer of the Con- 
vention Hall Company, and vice-president 
of the Priests of Pallas. Business address, 
National Bank of Commerce Building, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



DANIEL GREEN SAUNDERS. 

Daniel Green Saunders. Wholesale lum- 
ber dealer. Born March i6, 1856, in 
Bedford, Livingston county, Mo. Son of 
Daniel Green and Laura (Hicks) Saun- 
ders. Educated in the public schools of 
Chillicothe, Mo. Began his career first in 
the lumber business in Chillicothe, Mo. 
Came to Kansas City March i, 1886, engag- 
ing in the lumber business with the E. P. 
Cowen Lumber Company as manager, with 
which firm he remained until 1896. In 1896 
became president of the Buckner-Saunders 
Lumber Company ; president of the D. G. 
Saunders Lumber Company of Kansas City ; 
Saunders-Turner Lumber Company, Kan- 
sas City, Mo., and Vernon Lumber Com- 
pany, of Hart, La., and a director in various 
oil, mining and manufacturing companies in 
Missouri and elsewhere. Mr. Saunders has 
been successful on the line of indefatigable 
labor, strict integrity and close attention to 
the details of business, and thoroughly ac- 
quainted with the lumber business in the west 
and south, carrying with him the confidence 
of a large number of patrons and friends that 
have remained loyal to him until the pres- 
ent time. Familiar with the disposing of 
lumber to the consumer from a small begin- 
ning to a business of vast proportions, and 
extending in many states. Out of hard work 
and good judgment, the material that suc- 



cess is made of, such men usually are very 
reticent about their achievements, and Mr. 
Saunders is not an exception to the rule in 
this; he dislikes all kinds of notoriety, and 
that unassumingness is one of the factors of 
his business accomplishments. Mr. Saun- 
ders affiliates with the Democrat party. He 
is a member of the Hoo Hoo and Railroad 
clubs of Kansas City, Mo. He was married 
March 16, 1878, to Miss Sallie Creason at 
Bedford, Mo. Two children have been born 
to the union : Daniel Green Saunders, Jr., 
and Bolena May Saunders. Business ad- 
dress, Keith & Perry building, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



GARDINER LATHROP. 

Gardiner Lathrop. Lawyer. Born Feb- 
ruary 15, 1850, in Waukesha, Wis. Son 
of John H. and Frances E. Lathrop. 
He took a preparatory course at Ra- 
cine, Wis., and in 1863 entered the Univer- 
sity of Missouri, graduating in 1867 with the 
first honors of the class. Graduated at Yale 
college in 1869, receiving second honors at 
that institution. In January, 1870, he lo- 
cated in Kansas City, studied law and en- 
tered the law school of Harvard University 
where he graduated in 1873. Returning to 
Kansas City he formed a partnership with 
William M. Smith. Subsequently Mr. 
Smith retired and Thomas R. Morrow and 
John M.Fox were admitted to the firm, which 
became Lathrop, Morrow & Fox. S. W. 
Moore afterward became a partner and the 
firm now exists as Lathrop, Morrow, Fox 
& Moore. Mr. Lathrop is solicitor for the 
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway in 
Missouri and Iowa. For eleven years he 
served upon the board of education in Kan- 



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sas City, retiring in 1893. He was re- 
elected member of the board in the spring 
of 1900. For fifteen years he has been a 
member of the board of curators of the Uni- 
versity of Missouri. In 1898 he became 
president of the Kansas City Bar Associa- 
tion, and a member of the Commercial Club 
of Kansas City. Served as chairman of its 
committee on state and national legislation, 
and for two years chairman of the enter- 
tainment committee of the club, presiding at 
its annual banquets as toastmaster. In poli- 
tics Mr. Lathrop is a Republican without 
any ambition for personal preferment. He 
was married in 1879 to Miss Eva Grant. 
They have fi\e children, four daughters and 
one son. Business address, 117 West Sixth 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



ROBERT ALEXANDER LONG. 

Robert Alexander Long. Lumberman. 
Born in December, 1850, in the county of 
Shelby, in the state of Kentucky, and 
at the age of twenty-three Mr. Long left 
Kentucky and went to Kansas City. He 
began his business career with the disposing 
of lumber to the consumer and gradually 
throughout the years has worked his way 
back from that point to the production of 
lumber, personally going into and enjoying 
an extensive experience in every branch of 
the business. Mr. Long is president of the 
Long-Bell Lumber Company, of Kansas 
City; the Rapids Lumber Company, Ltd., of 
Wood worth. La. ; the King-Ryder Lumber 
Company, of Bonami, La. ; the Hudson 
River Lumber Company, of De Ridder, La. ; 
The Globe Lumber Company, Ltd., of Yel- 
low Pine, La. ; th^ Minnetonka Lumber 



Company, the Fidelity Land & Improvement 
Company and the Fidelity Fuel Company, 
and of the Long-Bell Railway System, and is 
a large stockholder in the Weed Lumber 
Company, of Weed, Siskiyou county, Cal. 
Mr. Long also is interested in the coal trade 
in the west. jMr. Long has great executive 
ability in conducting and operating great 
business enterprises. Socially and in a lit- 
erary way there are prominent traits of his 
character that we might dwell upon for a 
short time. There is a great deal of worthy 
literature from his pen in the various trade 
journals, and in speaking of the Long-Bell 
Lumber Company, we quote from the Amer- 
ican Lumberman: "Mr. Long has been, 
since the inception of that organization, one 
of the most incisive and convincing debaters 
that the Southern lumber maufacturers 
have known, and he is now the president of 
that body. His arguments, whether in care- 
fully prepared paper, or in impromptu 
speech, are always consistent. He never 
wastes time in intricate phraseology. Mr. 
Long's paper on the question of 'Yellow 
Pine Stumpage,' which was read at the Xew 
Orleans meeting of the Southern Manufact- 
urers' Association in January of last year, 
has become a classic in the commercial world 
of yellow pine. That was a paper which 
began with the assertion that 'knowledge is 
an asset,' and went so thoroughly into the 
question that it is now considered the only 
definite statistical information extant on the 
subject of yellow pine stumpage. When the 
great National Wholesale Lumber Dealers' 
Association met in Chicago, a few years ago, 
Mr. Long delivered a talk on monetary 
affairs which placed him in the front rank of 
lumber financiers of the whole country. Mr. 
Long's business career has been one of prac- 
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and worth with whom he has been associ- 
ated." Business address, Keith & Perry 
building; residence, 2814 Independence ave- 
nue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JESSE WILLIAMS JENNINGS. 

Jesse Williams Jennings, manager for 
Jennings & Graham, Kansas City deposi- 
tory of the Western Methodist Book Con- 
cern. Born September i, 1852, in South 
Bend, Ind. Son of James H. and Ma- 
hala Margaret (Laswell) Jennings. James 
Welch, maternal great-grandfather, was a 
member of the Continental army under 
Washington ; paternal great-grandparents, 
Samuel and Susan Jennings, settled in New 
Windsor, Ulster county, N. Y., A. D. 1773. 
Dr. Jennings, the subject of this sketch, be- 
gan his early career as a retail grocer. Later 
a farmer, newspaper correspondent, then for 
the past twenty-one years in the active min- 
istry of the Methodist Episcopal church. 
He was left an orphan at fourteen years of 
age ; made his own way and worked at vari- 
ous occupations in Indiana, Michigan, Ken- 
tucky and Missouri. Became local salesman 
for a flour mill in Indiana at twenty; later 
retail grocer as a member of the firm of 
Brownfield & Jennings, South Bend, Ind. 
Moved to Nebraska September 19, 1881. Dr. 
Jennings is a past grand in I. O. O. F. ; or- 
dained clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal 
church; D. D. conferred by Chaddock Col- 
lege, Quincy, III. Member North Nebraska 
Annual Conference of the Methodist Epis- 
copal church ; member board of trustees of 
Nebraska Wesleyan University, and also of 
Nebraska Methodist Episcopal Hospital. For 
twenty-three years he has been actively con- 



nected with various church and religious 
organizations in Nebraska. Was presiding 
elder of Omaha district for five years. He 
w^as chaplain of the Second Regiment Ne- 
braska National Guards two years. He was 
a delegate to the world's general conference 
of the Methodist Episcopal church at Los 
Angeles, Cal., in 1904, and was a member 
of the joint commission which created the 
new catechism that united the Methodist 
Episcopal church and the Methodist Episco- 
pal church, south, in the study of fundamen- 
tal Christian doctrine. October i, 1904, he 
removed to Kansas City and assumed the 
managership of the Kansas City depository 
of the Western Methodist Book Concern, 
and Central Christian Advocate. He owns 
a farm near Chalk Level, St. Clair county. 
Dr. Jennings was married March 15, 
1874, in South Bend, Ind., to Miss Lydia 
Ann Sousley. Children: Mrs. Melville D. 
Cameron, Omaha, Neb. (Martha Elizabeth 
Jennings, deceased). Business address, 
1121-1123 McGee street, Kansas City, Mo. 
Residence address, 815 Glen Airy Place. 



WILLIAM A. RULE. 

William A. Rule. Banker. Born Sep- 
tember 3, 1858, in St. Louis, Mo. His 
parents were Orville G. and Margaret (Ash- 
ley) Rule. The father was born in St. 
Louis, and w-as a lifelong resident of that 
city. For several years he was engaged in 
the business of contracting, and subsequently 
became a member of the St. Louis Shot 
Tower Company, one of the oldest establish- 
ments of its kind in the country. He was 
the manager of this important concern, and 
was an active, aggressive business man. 



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While seated at the desk at which he had sat 
for forty years, he suddenly expired in 
October, 1884. His wife was a native of 
Virginia, and removed to Missouri at an 
early date. William Kennett Rule, the 
grandfather of William A., was a pioneer 
resident of St. Louis, and the family is one 
of the oldest and most highly honored in 
Missouri. William A. Rule received his ed- 
ucation in the public and high schools of St. 
Louis. He began his business career as col- 
lector for the East St. Louis Transfar Com- 
pany. He was a messenger boy in the Hiber- 
nia Bank until it failed, and also in the Third 
National Bank of St. Louis. He was pro- 
moted in that bank to exchange teller, which 
he resigned May, 1887, and accepted the 
position of chief clerk in the National Bank 
of Commerce, Kansas City. In 1889 he was 
elected second assistant cashier in that bank, 
and in July, 1895, was promoted to the re- 
sponsibility of cashier, a position he now 
holds. He is a director and stockholder in 
this bank. He gave valuable assistance in 
securing the na;tional Democratic conven- 
tion of 1900 for Kansas City. Mr. Rule 
was made treasurer on the committee of 
ways and means, and through his efiforts, 
with others, was successful in the great 
movement. He is one of the incorporators 
of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient rail- 
road, and has been its treasurer since its 
organization. He is a member of the Kansas 
City and Country Clubs. Is a director in the 
Kansas City Driving and Driving Park 
Clubs. Treasurer and director of the Kan- 
sas City Jockey Club ; treasurer and director 
of Elm Ridge Club ; member of the order of 
Elks, and holds official positions in various 
social and commercial organizations. He is 
a Democrat, and \vas a supporter of Grover 
Cleveland. 



Mr. Rule was married December 21, 
1880, to ]\Iiss Lizzie Harrison, of St. Louis, 
Mo. They have three children living. Busi- 
ness address, National Bank of Commerce 
building; residence, 43 southwest corner 
Oak, Kansas City, Missouri. 



EUGENE HILARIAN ABADIE. 

Eugene Hilarian Abadie. Engineer-con- 
tractor. Born March i. 1872. Son of Eu- 
gene S. and Mary Louise (Snow) Abadie. 
Educated in the Alexander Private School, 
Stoddard School, Manual Training School 
and Washington University, St. Louis. 

Mr. Abadie's early ancestors came over 
in the ]\Iayflower. One of them, Thomas 
Prince, was governor of Plymouth colony. 
Another, William Rector, was first surgeon 
general of Missouri. His brother, Elia Rec- 
tor, was postmaster of St. Louis, Mo. E. H. 
Abadie, the grandfather, was colonel of 
a medical corps, U. S. A., and served in the 
Mexican. Seminole and Civil wars. 

In 1 89 1 ^Ir. Abadie entered the shops of 
the Wagner Electrical Manufacturing Com- 
pany. This firm had ten men employed at 
that time and did only a small business. The 
following spring Mr. Abadie did double 
duty, working both in the office and shops. 
As the business was growing, he took charge 
of the office and with small assistance run 
the business as secretary for ten years. The 
firm then enlarged their capital by taking in 
moneyed men, which later lost them the con- 
trol. Mr. Abadie was placed in full charge 
of the sales and office as manager. He con- 
tinued in this capacity until 1898. He then 
organized a sales company to handle the out- 
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facturing Company and the Bullock Electric 
Manufacturing Company, of Cincinnati. He 
had full charge of this company as manager. 
The next year he organized the Wagner-Bul- 
lock Electrical Company, of California, and 
the following year was one of the organizers 
of the Colonial Electric Corporation. In 
1901 he was called to New York to manage 
The Elblight Company of America, and was 
vice-president of this company. He gave up 
his connection with this company the year 
following to devote his entire time to the 
company which he had organized in St. 
Louis, and which required his undivided 
attention. The name of this company is E. 
H. Abadie & Company, and is composed of 
E. H. Abadie and Albert Willis Higgins, and 
was established in October, 1901. The firm 
does engineering and contracting — steam, 
gas, electricity, etc. 

Mr. Abadie is a member of the American 
Institute of Electrical Engineers, also mem- 
ber of the University Club, St. Louis 
Field Club, Missouri Athletic and Engi- 
neering Club. He is a Democrat in politics, 
and in religious belief is an Episcopalian. He 
was married in Louisville, Ky., October 5, 
1903, to Miss Alice Gloria Boiling, a direct 
descendant from the union of John Rolfe 
and Pocahontas. To Mr. and Mrs. Abadie 
one child has been born, Eugene Boiling 
Abadie. Business address, suite 704, Bank 
of Commerce building; residence address, 
427 Lake avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



IRA GRANT HEDRICK. 

Ira Grant Hedrick, civil engineer, was 
born at West Salem, Edwards county, 
III, April 6, 1868, son of Henderson and 



Mary Ann (Bryan) Hedrick. His father 
(born 1837), a farmer of Illinois, was 

a great-grandson of Hedrick, who 

came from Holland to New York about 
1755; his mother was a daughter of Gideon 
Bryan, of Clay county, 111. He was educated 
in the public schools of his native town and 
was graduated B. C. E. in 1892, and as C. E. 
in 1 901 from the Arkansas State University, 
and in 1898 received the degree of B. S., in 
1899 the degree of M. S., and in 1905 the 
degree of D. Sc. from McGill University, 
Montreal, Canada. In October of 1892 he 
entered on professional practice with J. A. 
L. Waddell, at Kansas City, Mo., and con- 
tinued as his assistant engineer until Janu- 
ary I, 1S98. He then became assistant to 
the chief engineer of the Kansas City, Pitts- 
burg & Gulf railroad, but one year later, on 
January i, 1899, formed a partnership with 
his former employer. Dr. Waddell, under 
the style of Waddell & Hedrick. Since its 
foundation this firm has done a large amount 
of important bridge work, notably bridges 
over the Missouri river at St. Charles, 
Mo., Jefferson City, Mo., and at East 
Omaha,Neb. ; over the Maumee river at To- 
ledo, Ohio; over the Red river at Index, 
Texas, and at Alexandria, La. ; over the 
Eraser river at New Westminster, B. C. ; 
over the Arkansa.s and White rivers in Ar- 
kansas, all the bridges on the Vera Cruz & 
Pacific railroad in Mexico, and a number 
of large bridges for the I. & G. N. railway 
in Texas. They were also consulting engi- 
neers to the Boston Elevated railroad and to 
various other large and important works, 
and are now engaged in the designing and 
construction of the inter-state viaduct at 
Kansas City. Mr. Hedrick is a member of 
the American Society of Civil Engineers ; 
the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers ; the 



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Institution of Civil Engineers of London, 
England, and the of the Society for the Pro- 
motion of Engineering Education, also hon- 
orary member of the Rensselaer Society of 
Engineers. 

He was married February lo, 1889, to 
Louisa N. Luther, daughter of Newton J. 
Luther, of Washington county, Ark. They 
have one son and two daughters. 



ARTHUR W. BREWSTER. 

Arthur W. Brewster, a lawyer of prom- 
inence in Buchanan county, is at the pres- 
ent time postmaster of St. Joseph, having 
been appointed to the office by President 
Roosevelt February 8, 1902. Mr. Brewster 
was born in Ashtabula, Ohio, in 1865, and is 
a son of A. S. Brewster, who took his family 
to Kansas in 1869. Arthur W. Brewster 
was mainly reared in Kansas, being four 
years old when his parents moved to that 
state, and received his education in the grade 
and high schools and at Washburn College, 
from which he was graduated in 1890. He 
then studied law two years usder the direc- 
tion of his father and was admitted to the 
bar in Kansas, immediately thereafter mov- 
ing to St. Joseph. He entered the law office 
of Huston & Parrish, and within a year 
formed a partnership with the present police 
judge, P. J. Carolus, under the firm name of 
Carolus & Brewster. In the fall of 1894 he 
was elected to the Missouri state senate, in 
which office he served four years, and in the 
meantime continued in the practice of the 
law. In 1896, when Mr. Parrish was elected 
judge of the circuit court, the old firm was 
dissolved, and ii^ 1897 the firm of Huston 
& Brewster was established with offices in 



the German-American Bank building. It 
was a strong combination of legal talent and 
continued with success until dissolved by the 
death of Mr. Huston on November 24, 1903. 
Mr. Brewster was the Republican candidate 
for congress in 1898. but was defeated by 
the Democratic nominee, C. F. Cochran. He 
was always active in working for Republican 
success in the campaigns, and stands high 
in the councils of his party. 

On Christmas day, 1894, Mr. Brewster 
was united in marriage with Ada Kanaga, 
of Hutchinson, Kans., with whom he had 
attended Washburn College at Topeka. Re- 
ligiously, Mrs. Brewster is a member of the 
Congregational church. Fraternally A. W. 
Brewster is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias, and of the Ancient Order of United 
Workmen. Business address. Federal build- 
ing; residence, 509 North Ninth street, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



WALLACE PRATT, 

Wallace Pratt. Corporation lawyer. 
Born October 16, 183 1, in Georgia, 
Vt. Son of Nathan and Charlotte (Hotch- 
kiss) Pratt, a descendant of Lieutenant 
tenant Pratt, an Englishman, and was one 
of the original proprietors of Hartford, 
Conn. Graduate of Union College in the 
class of 1849. Has studied law at Potsdam, 
N. Y. From 1852 to 1855 assisted his 
father in the lumber business in 
Northern New York until 1854. In 
the spring of 1856 he was admitted to the 
bar at Chicago, 111., to which place he had 
moved. In 1857 transferred his residence 
to ]\Iilwaukee, Wis., where he followed his 
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AVith Hon. John W. Gary, under the name 
of Gary & Pratt. In the spring of 1869 he 
removed to Kansas Gity, Mo., and selected 
this growing city to be his future home. For 
more than a quarter of a century he has been 
general counsel of the Kansas Gity, Fort 
Scott & Memphis Railway System. In 
1857 he became associated with Judge 
Brumback and Watson J. Ferry. Firm 
name Pratt, Brumback & Ferry until 1887 
when Judge Brumback retired. He was suc- 
ceeded by George W. McGrary. Firm name 
Pratt, McGrary & Ferry. Mr. Hagerman be- 
coming a member of the firm it was known as 
Pratt, Ferry & Hagerman, until September 
I, 1896, when it was dissolved. Afterwards 
j\Ir. Pratt formed a partnership with Dana 
& Black under the firm name of Pratt, Dana 
& Black. In 1835 first married to Adaline 
Russell, daughter of Hon. John Leslie Rus- 
sell, who died in 1874. In 1884 he was 
a second time married to Mrs. Garoline 
Dudley, of Buffalo, N. Y., who died in 
1902. Residence, northwest corner Ninth and 
Pennsylvania streets, Kansas City, Missouri. 



DURBIN IRVING PARSONS. 

Durbin Irving Parsons, treasurer of 
the United States Trust Gompany, Kan- 
sas Gity, Mo. Born February 19, 1868. 
Son of Elizur Dwight and Ella (Rice) Par- 
sons. Educated, in the public schools of 
Kansas Gity, Mo., and is a descendant of 
parents who were pioneers of Jackson county, 
Mo. On leaving school, for several years 
was lawyer's clerk in the office of several 
prominent lawyers, and afterwards became 
a stenographer and clerk in the Merchant's 
National Bank of Kansas Gity. From that 



position he was employed by the United 
States Trust Gompany, Kansas Gity, Mo., 
in which institution he filled various posi- 
tions, bookkeeper, general clerk, etc., and at 
the present time treasurer of that institution 
and one of its trustees. He is an indepen- 
dent Democrat, and a member of the Gom- 
mercial Glub of Kansas Gity. 

On the 15th day of August, 1895, he was 
married to Miss Gonstance S. Browne at 
Kansas Gity, Mo. One child has been born, 
Irving Parsons. Business address, basement 
floor, New York Life building, Kansas Gity, 
Missouri. 



JOHN WILSON MILLION. 

John Wilson Million. President of 
Hardin Gollege, Mexico, Mo. Born March 
6, 1863, in Maryville, Mo. Son of Ed- 
ward Jackson and Nancy (Broyles) Mil- 
lion. Educated : A. B., William Jewell Gol- 
lege, 1889: A. M., ibid., 1891 ; assistant 
professor, ibid, 1888-91 ; graduate student 
Johns Hopkins University, 1891-92; gradu- 
ate student, University of Ghicago, 1892-93; 
graduate student and fellow, ibid., 1894. 
Began his career as a farmer's boy, then 
student at various colleges, teacher in com- 
mon schools, assistant in William Jewell 
Gollege; professor of history and political 
economy in Hardin Gollege, 1895-97; presi- 
dent of Hardin Gollege, 1897-1905; presi- 
dent Universal Nut Lock Gompany (incor- 
porated), composed of the following offi- 
cials: J. W. Million, president; M. P. Gar- 
penter, vice-president and treasurer; J. G. 
Mundy, secretary. Manufacturers of nut 
locks in use by leading railway companies. 
Mr. Million is a member of American Eco- 
nomic Association; active member of Na- 



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tional Educational Association ; second vice- 
president of the State Historical Society of 
Missouri ; author of "State Aid to Railways 
in IMissouri ;'' member of advisory council, 
\\'orld's Best Orations. He is a member 
and deacon of the First Baptist church of 
Mexico. In politics he is an independent 
Democrat. 

Mr. Million married, December 23, 1896, 
in Flint, Mich., Miss Helen Lovell. Chil- 
dren : Margaret Lovell, Edward Henry, John 
Wilson, Jr., and Helen Harrison Million. 
Business address, Hardin College. Resi- 
dence address, looi South Jefferson street, 
Mexico, Missouri. 



JOHN PERRY. 



John Perry. Coal operator. Born Feb- 
ruary 4, 1850, in Oxfordshire, England. 
Son of Joseph and Mary (Coulling) Perry. 
Acquired a rudimentary education in Eng- 
land. Came to America in 1869, at the age 
of nineteen years, and became a pupil in the 
parochial schools of this country, and located 
in Fort Scott, Kans. Began his career in 
mining and selling coal. In 1886 Mr. Perry 
and Richard H. Keith associated them 
selves as partners under the firm name of 
Keith & Perry. Later, in 1890, it was incor- 
porated as the Keith & Perry Coal Company. 
In 1895 it was re-christened as the Central 
Coal & Coke Company, and a new depart- 
ment added, that of manufacturing yellow 
pine lumber, and was appointed vice-presi- 
dent and general manager of the concern. 
Held same until he resigned. He is one of 
the joint owners of the Keith & Perry build- 
ing in Kansas Clfy. He was the organizer 
of the Citizens' National Bank of Fort Scott, 



where he formerly resided. He is now a 
stockholder and director in the First Na- 
tional Bank of Kansas City. In 1895 he 
was appointed receiver of the National Bank 
of Kansas City, which he successfully man- 
aged to its completion. Politically, Mr. 
Perry is a Democrat, a strong believer in 
sound money ; was a supporter of Palmer 
and Buckner in 1896, and during this cam- 
paign organized many sound money leagues. 
He constructed the Perry Memorial Home, 
in Westport, a suburb of Kansas City. The 
donation was made sacred to the memory of 
his wife and children, who met with a tragic 
death. 

Mr. Perry was married to Kate M. Mas- 
sey, of Washington, D. C. Five children 
were born : John M. Perry, who died in 
1 891; Florence and Sadie, twin daughters; 
Albert and Katherine, all of whom were lost 
with their mother, on the ill fated ship, La 
Bourgoyne, at sea. Residence address, Lon- 
don, England. 



HON. OLIVER MARTIN SPENCER. 

Hon. Oliver Martin Spencer, gen- 
eral solicitor of the Burlington Railroad 
System in Missouri, was born at the old 
Spencer homestead in Crawford township, 
Buchanan county, Mo., August 23, 1849, 
?nd is a son of Obidiah Martin and Nancy 
(Williams) Spencer, the former a native ot 
North Carolina, and the latter of Kentucky. 

The parents of our subject came to Mis- 
souri in 1837. Obidiah Martin Spencer was 
one of the leading citizens of the Platte pur- 
chase and resided near the line of Platte 
county in the "hotbed"' of southern sympa- 
thizers, one day in the company of the Con- 



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federates and tlie next day with the Unioa 
troops. The father decided that his five 
sons should neither fight to destroy the 
union nor oppose those with whom he sym- 
pathized. Accordingly he sent the two older 
sons across the plains to Denver with a 
wagon train of freight, Oliver being too 
young to accompany them. Consequently 
remained at home and worked about the 
/firm, assisting his parents in the preserva- 
tion of their lives and property. He entered 
)(he State University of Missouri at Colum- 
jia the following year, and in 1871 became 
/a student at Christian University, Canton, 
Mo., from which he graduated with honors 
in 1873. He subsequently real law at Leav- 
enworth, Kans., residing with his parents, 
who had moved in 1871 to Kickapoo, Kans., 
riding to and from the office, six miles, on 
horseback. In 1874 he entered the law 
school of Harvard University, and subse- 
quently established himself in practice in St. 
Joseph, Mo. He was elected to the office 
of prosecuting attorney in 1880 and served 
as such for two years, thereby gaining e.xpe- 
rience of incalculable value to him in his 
after practice. During this time he was the 
senior member of the well-known law firm of 
Spencer & Hall, of which Willard P. Hall 
was junior member. In 1886 the Democrats 
nominated Mr. Spencer for judge of the 
Circuit court, and his candidacy met with 
such favor with the bar that the opposition 
party put no candidate in the field. His 
term on the bench was characterized by capa- 
bility and impartiality and at the end of four 
years he resigned to accept his present posi- 
tion as general solicitor of the Darlington 
Railroad System in Missouri. He was at 
one time a member of the firm of Spencer, 
Burnes & Mosman, recognized as one of the 
strongest firms in the state. 



In 1875 Judge Spencer was joined in 
marriage with Lillian Tootle, a daughter of 
Joseph Tootle, and niece of the deceased mil- 
lionaire, Milton Tootle. Mrs. Spencer died 
in 1880, aged twenty-four years, leaving 
two sons : Harry Heddens, born July 20, 
1877; and Edwin M., born July 4, 1879. On 
March 5, 1895, the Judge married Katha- 
rine Turner, of Columbia, Mo. They have 
one son, Tom, and a daughter, Sarah. Busi- 
ness address, Burlington offices, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM E. WALTON. 

William E. Walton. Banker. Born 
August 31, 1842, in Cooper county. Mo. 
Son of William P. and Louisa Jane (Tur- 
ley) Walton. Educated in the country 
schools in Cooper county. Mo. George Wal- 
ton, one of the ancestors of William E., 
signed the Declaration of Independence. His 
father's brother was a captain in the Confed- 
erate army and was killed at the battle of 
Port Republic, in Virginia. Mr. Walton was 
a farmer boy ; became an abstractor of titles 
for Pettis, Henry and Bates counties. In- 
vented and procured a copy-right for Wal- 
ton's system of abstract, and sold them in 
several hundred counties. Engaged in mak- 
ing loans on Bates county farms in 1870, 
and selling mortgages to investors. Now 
loans also in Vernon, Barton, Cedar, Dade 
and Polk counties, having at the present 
time over two hundred mortgage buyers that 
buy regularly as they have funds. In thirty- 
five years of continuous business he has 
never allowed one of them to lose a dollar 
of principal or interest. None of them own 
a farm bought at foreclosure of sale. Mr. 
Walton is the president of the Missouri State 



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Bank, established in 1889, also president of 
the Walton Trust Company, established in 
1 89 1. The Missouri State Bank, of which 
he is president, is composed of the following 
officials: William E. Walton, president; T. 
C. Boulwere, vice-president : J. R. Jenkins, 
cashier, and transacts a commercial business. 
The trust company loans over a million dol- 
lars annually on farms. The Walton Trust 
Company is composed of the following offi- 
cials : William E. Walton, president ; Sam 
Levy, vice-president ; Frank Allen, secre- 
tary ; has about five million dollars in mort- 
gage farm loans on the books of this corpo- 
ration that was made and sold to their lead- 
ing customers. Mr. Walton organized, in 
Butler, Mo., the E.xchange Bank, 1880, and 
Butler National Bank, 1881. He is a Dem- 
ocrat, but voted for ^IcKinley for president. 
He was county clerk of Bates county, Mo., 
during the years 1875, 1876, 1877 and 1878, 
by election. In religious belief he is a Chris- 
tian, and has been a member of the Christian 
church since 1877. 

He was married to Miss Cora Allen 
March 25, 1878, in Butler, Mo. Business 
and residence address, Butler, Missouri. 



THOMPSON E. POTTER, M. D. 

Thompson E. Potter, M. D., president 
of the Central Medical College, of St. 
Joseph, was one of the founders of this 
institution in 1894. He is a man of wide 
experience both as a practitioner and an in- 
structor, serving for some years as a profes- 
sor in the Northwestern Medical College, of 
St. Joseph. 

Dr. Potter was born in Clinton county. 
Mo., December i^ 1849. and is a son of 



Thomas and Hessie (Smith) Potter. Soon 
after the birth of Dr. Potter he was taken 
by his parents to DeKalb county, Mo., where 
he spent his boyhood days upon a farm. 
He attended the common schools until he 
reached the age of si.xteen years, then entered 
]\IcGee College, located near Macon, Mo. 
After a complete literary course he began 
teaching school, at the same time studying 
medicine under a private preceptor. His 
mother encouraged and assisted him in the 
pursuit of his medical studies. In the fall 
of 1873 he entered Jefiferson Medical Col- 
lege, of Philadelphia, where he soon became 
distinguished as a brilliant and untiring stu- 
dent. He completed three courses in this 
institution and was graduated in March. 
1875, taking a $50 prize for the best thesis. 
Returning to Missouri he located at Cam- 
eron, where he remained nearly twelve years, 
building up a large and well paying practice. 
In 1882 he was appointed local surgeon for 
the Hannibal and St. Joseph railroad and 
served as such until he resigned in 1886. In 
1883 the pension examining board for the 
Third Congressional district was created at 
Cameron, and, although an uncompromising 
Democrat, he was appointed on this board 
by President Arthur, and served as secretary 
three years. He resigned in 1886 because 
of his removal to St. Joseph to accept the 
chair of physiology and nervous diseases in 
the Northwestern Medical College, of St. 
Joseph. He was later given the chair of 
operative and clinical surgery in this institu- 
tion, which he filled with great credit until 
1894, when he resigned. In 1889 Dr. Potter 
founded and became editor of the Western 
Medical and Surgical Reporter, which was 
established in the interest of the college, and 
soon after he obtained entire control of the 
journal. He has always been a member of 



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state and local medical societies, and has 
obtained wide prominence through the pro- 
fessional press, to which he has been a val- 
ued contributor. In the spring of 1894 Dr. 
Potter, with five other medical gentlemen, 
founded the Central Medical College, of St. 
Joseph, an institution standing in the front 
ranks among the westers medical colleges, 
and has served as its president and as pro- 
fessor of surgery. The Doctor maintains 
fine offices in the Carbry block, corner of 
Seventh and Edmond streets, and has met 
with remarkable success in private practice, 
especially in surgery. He is a man of strong 
personality and is well liked by his profes- 
sional brethren and the public in general. 
Business address, 120 South Seventh street; 
residence, 1308 North Eleventh street, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



WILLIAM R. PICKERING. 

William R. Pickering. President of 
William R. Pickering Lumber Company. 
Born December 31, 1849, ^t St. Louis, Mo. 
His father was a native of England, came 
to America and located in Missouri, where 
he was for a time a school teacher, and served 
as a county judge. William R. was educated 
in the public schools at Waynesville, Mo. 
In 1872 he became interested in lead mining 
in Joplin, and in 1880, in association with 
Ellis Short, he engaged in a general mer- 
chandise business under the firm name of 
Short & Pickering, extending their business 
in Arkansas, and handled large quantities 
of timber from Eureka Springs, Ark., and 
from Seligman, Mo. Within a few years 
their operations were extended into the In- 
dian Territory. In 1894 the W. R. Picker- 



ing Lumber Company was organized, and 
the head offices were established at Spring- 
field, Mo. Mr. Pickering operated retail 
establishments at various places; closing out 
the retail business and began operating a 
wholesale yellow pine manufacturing busi- 
ness. In 1898 he established a sawmill plant 
at Pickering Station, La., on the Kansas 
City, Pittsburg & Gulf railway. May i, 
1899 the general offices were removed to 
Kansas City, Mo., and Mr. Pickering be- 
came president. From 1893 to 1897 '''^ 
engaged in the banking business in Missouri. 
In 1869 Mr. Pickering was married to 
Miss Jane Coggburn, of Mills county. Mo. 
He is a member of the Republican party and 
of the reorganized church of Latter Day 
Saints. One child has been born, William 
A. William A. was born in 1870 in Buffalo, 
Mo. Began his education in the common 
schools and completed it at Drury College, 
in Springfield, Mo. From his youth he was 
connected in some manner with lumber in- 
terests, and closely associated with his father 
in the lumber business, and displayed great 
capability in this particular calling. When 
the William R. Pickering Lumber Company 
was organized he became vice-president and 
general manager, and from that time has 
managed the extensive business. Business 
address, Keith & Perry building; residence, 
112 Walrand, Kansas City, Missouri. 



MILTON TOOTLE, JR. 

Milton Tootle, Jr., vice-president of 
the Tootle-Lemon National Bank, and man- 
ager of the enormous estate of the late 
Milton Tootle, is at the head of many of the 
principal business enterprises and manufact- 



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uring concerns of the city of St. Joseph. 
Our subject is the son of Milton and Kath- 
erine (O'Xeill) Tootle, and was born in St. 
Joseph, Mo., March 18, 1872. His father, 
who died January 2, 1877, will long live in 
the memory of the people of this community 
by reason of his great success in the business 
world and his many noble acts of kindness 
and charity. 

Milton Tootle, Jr., received his educa- 
tion at St. Paul's school at Concord. N. H. 
In 1893 he became a member of the firm of 
bankers known as Tootle, Lemon & Com- 
pany, lately changed to the Tootle-Lemon 
National Bank, of which he is vice-president. 
This financial institution was organized in 
July, 1899. In 1899 this bank moved into 
one of the finest bank buildings in the state 
of Missouri, and in every respect takes rank 
with the leading and most successful banking 
houses of the state. It is now owned by Mr. 
Tootle, the Lemon estate and Graham G. 
Lacy, exclusively, they having acquired the 
holdings of all other stockholders in Decem- 
ber, 1898. Mr. Tootle has many other busi- 
ness interests. He is owner of the Tootle 
Theatre, one of the handsomest in the United 
States ; director in the Tootle, Wheeler & 
Motter Mercantile Company ; president of 
the Tootle-Kessler Millinery Company ; vice- 
president of the Buell Manufacturing Com- 
pany : director in the St. Joseph Gas Com- 
pany ; and president of the Tootle estate. 

Milton Tootle, Jr., was united in mar- 
riage with Lillian B. Duckworth, a daughter 
of George K. Duckworth, of Cincinnati, 
Ohio, and they have three sons : Milton, 
Duckworth and William Dameron. In poli- 
tics, our subject is a Republican. He and his 
family are members of the Presbyterian 
church. He is a liberal giver of his wealth 
to worthy charitable and philanthropic 



causes. He and his family reside in one of 
the finest homes architecture could plan, and 
are leaders in the social circles of St. Joseph. 
Mr. Tootle is a member of the Benton Club, 
and was one of the founders of the Country 
Club. Business address, Tootle-Lemon Na- 
tional Bank building, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



SAMUEL C. JAMES. 

Samuel C. James. Physician and sur- 
geon. Born in Franklin county, Va., June 
16, 1854. His parents, Dr. Bryant T. 
and Emma James, moved to Versailles, Mo., 
when he was quite young. He began the 
study of medicine in his father's office in 
Versailles. In 1878 he entered the Missouri 
Medical College, attending one year, and 
later entered Rush Medical College, in Chi- 
cago, graduating in 1882. He began prac- 
tice in Versailles, Mo., and after a short time 
removed to Holden, Mo., where he remained 
nutil 1888. Desiring to seek a location pre- 
senting greater opportunities he went to New 
York where he took post graduate work in 
the New York Polyclinic, and came to Kan- 
sas City in 1889. As a physician and sur- 
geon he is well and prominently known. He 
is a member of the American Medical Asso- 
ciation, Missouri State Medical Association; 
ex-member of the IMissouri State Board of 
Health ; member of the Provincial Board of 
Health of North America, Jackson County 
Medical Society; Kansas City Academy of 
Medicine ; nominator for the Provident Life 
Insurance Company ; dean of the University 
Medical College ; trustee and professor of 
principles and practice of medicine in the 
same : consulting physician to the University 
Hospital and the Frisco railway. He be- 



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longs to the Mystic Shrine and Knight Tem- 
plars. Consulting office, Bryant building, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



ELLIOTT HOWARD CHAMBERLAIN. 

Elliott Howard Chamberlain. Whole- 
sale merchant. Born May 6, 1858, in St. 
Louis, Mo. Son of Frederick and Laura 
Abby (Simmons) Chamberlain. Educated 
in the Washington University, 1876. Mem- 
ber of the firm of F. B. Chamberlain & Co., 
incorporated in 1901, and established in 
1845, composed of F. B. Chamberlain, presi- 
dent ; E. H. Chamberlain, secretary. They 
do an extensive business in wholesale food 
products. He began his business career as 
a clerk in 1877. In 1885 he entered the firm 
of F. B. Chamberlain & Co., which he has 
continued in to date 

In religious belief Mr. Chamberlain is 
a Methodist. In politics he is a Republican. 
He was married, May 13, 1880, in St. Louis, 
Mo., to Miss Nellie P. Goll. Children : Rob- 
ert Elliott and Leon B. Chamberlain. Busi- 
ness address 7 and 9 North Second street; 
residence address, 3710 Page avenue, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



FREDERICK B. CHAMBERLAIN. 

Frederick B. Chamberlain. Wholesale 
merchant. Born November 27, 1867, in St. 
Louis, Mo. Son of F. B. Chamberlain and 
Laura A. (Simmons) Chamberlain. Edu- 
cated in the Washington University. Is a 
member of the incorporated company of F. 
B. Chamberlain Co., and president of the 



same. He began his business career as a 
clerk in 1888, and has been in various busi- 
ness positions previous to entering the above 
corporation. 

Mr. Chamberlain is a member of the 
Merchants' Exchange, St. Louis, Mo., and 
the Missouri Athletic Club. In religious 
matters he is a Unitarian, and in politics he 
is a Republican. He was married, April 22, 
1898, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Abbie W. 
Goddard. Business address, 7 and 9 North 
Second street; residence address, 4312 Mc- 
Pherson avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES LIMBIRD. 



James Limbird, lawyer, born July 24, 
1843, in Bicker, Lincolnshire, England. 
Son of James and Elizabeth (Lane) 
Limbird. Mr. Limbird was left an orphan 
at the early age of eleven years and worked 
for board and clothes ; went to school three 
or four months in the winter season previous 
to his eighteenth year. Since that time has 
attended school only eleven weeks. Al- 
though not possessing a classical education 
he has possessed himself with the most thor- 
ough knowledge by being a close student 
of books and an inclination to investigate ; 
he has become familiar with the classics and 
well versed in current topics. He enlisted in 
the Union army July 29, 1861, in Company 
I, Twenty-seventh Ohio Vol. Inf. ; served 
until November 13, 1865. Admitted to the 
bar August, 1873, in Carrollton, Mo. ; moved 
to Holt county. Mo. ; prosecuting attorney 
of Holt county 1874; served two terms. 
Elected member of the legislature for Holt 
county in i88r. Changing his residence to 
St. Joseph, Mo., in 1882, he became city 



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counselor of St, Joseph, Mo., from 1884 to 
1887, inclusive; was United States surveyor 
of customs at port of St. Joseph from 1890 
to 1894. Since then has practiced his pro- 
fession in St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. Linibird is 
a Republican in politics. Was lecturer on 
medical jurisprudence of Northwestern Col- 
lege from 1883 to 1894. 

Mr. Limbird was married March 31, 
1867, at Princeton, Mercer county, Mo., to 
Miss Josephine Arbuckle. Children : Maude, 
Clytie, Uberti, James and Ethel Limbird. 
Business address, 206 North Fifth street; 
residence address, 1606 Jule street, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



CHARLES CUMAHNGS COLLINS. 

Charles Cummings Collins, lawyer, was 
born July 6, 1872, at Memphis, Tenn., 
son of Charles Standish and Kather- 
ine Julia (Comfort) Collins, educated at 
Little Rock (Arkansas) High School. 1888- 
1892. Washington University (St. Louis) 
College A. B. In 1892- 1894 St. Louis Law 
School (Washington University), LL. B. 
Located in Missouri in 1888, practiced his 
profession there and became a member of 
the legal firm of Carter, Collins & Jones, 
comprised of the following members : W. F. 
Carter, C. C. Collins, W. T. Jones, and 
H. C. Barker; established January i. 1905. 
The firm represents numerous corporations 
and transacts a large amount of legal busi- 
ness in the Federal and State Courts. 
Charles C. althougli devoted to his profes- 
sion, has lent his ability in other business 
pursuits, and has connected himself with 
many worthy ent^rises, which also ab- 
sorb much of his time and attention, and in 



business circles he is well and favorably 
known. He is president of the Corsicana 
Transit Company and Briquette Fuel Com- 
pany, and director in the following com- 
panies: Corsicana Gas & Electric Company, 
Jonca Granite Quarry Mining Company, 
Ozark Land & Fruit Growing Co., secretary 
Morey Engineering & Construction Co., 
Kinloch Paint Co., secretary and treasurer 
of the Western Hygea Box Co. He is a 
member of the Mercantile Club, St. Louis 
Club, American Bar Association, St. Louis 
Bar Association, Washington University 
Association. Civic Improvement League, and 
affiliates with the Democratic party, wor- 
ships at the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
South. From 1892 to 1894 he was instruc- 
tor at Smith's Academy (Washington Uni- 
versity), St. Louis. He married on the i6th 
of October, 1895, in St. Louis, Miss July H. 
Thompson, to which union has been born 
three ciiildren, Anne Acrata, July Comfort, 
and Mary Virvinia Collins. His business ad- 
dress is 502 Equitable building, and resi- 
dence address, No. 20 Lenox Place, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



WILLIAM H. UTZ. 

William H. Utz. Lawyer. Born July 
28, 1864, in Buchanan county, Mo. Son 
of John H. and Sarah E. (Duncan) 
Utz. Father was a Confederate soldier in 
the Civil war. Mr. Utz was educated in the 
public schools of his native state. Central 
College. 1883-84; the law department of the 
Missouri State University, 1889-8-9. grad- 
uating in the class of 1889 with degree of 
L. L. B. He began his career as a farmer 
boy ; taught one term of school in the coun- 



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try, and after graduating from the law 
school of the Missouri State University en- 
gaged in the practice July 18, 1889, at St. 
Joseph, Mo., and has continued in the prac- 
tice up to the present time. He is a member 
of the legal co-partnership of Duncan & Utz, 
composed of Albert B. Duncan and William 
H. Utz, established January 21, 1897. The 
firm conducts a large, lucrative business in 
the State and Federal courts. 

Mr. Utz is a Democrat, which party he 
has affiliated with all of his life ; was assist- 
ant prosecuting attorney of Buchanan coun- 
ty 1895 to 1897; appointed police commis- 
sioner for St. Joseph, Mo., April 18, 1901, 
and re-appointed April, 1904, for a term of 
three years. He is a member of all the York 
rite of A. F. & A. M., the Mystic Shrine, 
Eastern Star, and Royal and Select Masons, 
Improved Order of Red Men, and he wor- 
ships in the Methodist Episcopal church 
south, in St. Joseph, Mo. 

Mr. Utz married. May 15, 1902, at St. 
Joseph, Mo., to Miss Alice Henry. Children : 
Mary E. and Alice Ruth Utz. Business ad- 
dress, Lyceum building, St. Joseph, Mo. ; 
residence address. 1222 North Tenth street. 



LESLIE JAMES LYONS. 

Leslie James Lyons, a member of the 
Kansas City Bar, was born January 
30, 1872, on a farm in Johnson county, 
Kans., a son of John J. and Rebecca 
(Shreve) Lyons, the father a native of Ohio, 
tlie mother a native of Illinois. The remote 
ascestors of Leslie J. were Scotch-Irish and 
German. John J. Lyons, the father of the 
subject of this sketch, was a farmer and mer- 
chant for many years, and now resides at 



Hennessey, Okla. He was a veteran of the 
late Civil war, a member of Company G, 
Eightieth Illinois Regiment, and partici- 
pated in several bloody engagemests, among 
them we mention the battle of Missionary 
Ridge, where he was severely wounded. He 
was captured at Rome, Ga., and was assigned 
to Libby prison, but was soon exchanged 
and escaped imprisonment in that notorious 
pen provided for Union soldiers. After serv- 
ing his country for four years, he was dis- 
charged in 1865, and is now enjoying his 
western home and occupying the honorable 
position of being one of the surviving veter- 
ans of the Civil war. 

Leslie James Lyons acquired his educa- 
tion in the common schools of Johnson 
county, Kans. ; the Olathe, Kans., high 
school ; Hesper Academy, graduating in the 
class of 1890. He is also' a graduate of 
Baker University, at Baldwin, Kans., in the 
class of 1896. In 1898 he entered the State 
University at Lawrence, Kans., and was 
graduated from the law department of that 
institution in 1900, with the degree of L. L. 
B. In the latter school he worked his way 
through the entire course unaided. Previous 
to this he taught school for several years. 
May 15, 1900, he came to Kansas City, Mo., 
and began the practice of law with the well 
known firm of Lathrop, Morrow, Fox & 
Moore, and remained with them until March, 
1903. Mr. Lyons is a member of the I. O. 
O. F., and of the Kansas City Bar Associa- 
tion and the Knife and Fork Club. On Sep- 
tember 10, 1904, he was nominated for the 
legislature in the Sixth district of Missouri, 
and elected November 8th, same year. He 
is a member of the Independence Methodist 
Episcopal church, a worker in the Sunday 
school, in which he takes much delight. 

Mr. Lyons was married January i, 1902, 



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to Miss Adda XichcJson, of De Soto, Kans. 
Mrs. Lyons. pre\-ious to her marriage. v\-as 
an able and efficient govemmoit teacher in 
the Indian serv-ice. and had spent over ten 
years in the sers-ice. One son. Donald £. 
Lyons, has been bom to them. Business ad- 
dress. 515 New York Life building: resi- 
dence address, 319 Ord avenue, Kansas Citj-. 
Missouri. 



L.\UREXCE T- STLTPY. 

Laurence J. Stuppy. president of the 
Stuppy Floral Company, of St. Joseph, 
has been established here in the florist busi- 
ness since 1S73. and is now at the head of 
a company which controls and operates the 
largest and best equipped greenhouses in this 
section of the state. Mr. Stuppy was bom 
at Ste Gene\-ieve, Mo.. September 5. 1S49. 
and is a son of Francis X. and Mary A. 
(Kohler) Stuppy. the former a nati%-e of 
France and the latter of Sw-itzerland. 

Laurence J. Stuppy enjoyed a much bet- 
ter educational advantages than had his 
father as he \\-as educated both in German 
schools at St. Joseph, and the English schools 
then under the superintendence of Prof. Ed- 
ward B. Xeeley. and in 1862 he became a 
student in St Benedict's College at Atchi- 
son. Kans. After several years there he 
learned photography and pharmaoi- and he 
and his brother. J. B. Stuppy. opened up the 
first store in the block at Sixth and Felix 
streets. Mr. Stuppy's beginning in the flor- 
ist business was with no idea of making it 
the main interest of his life. He simply lo\-ed 
flowers and desired to surround himself with 
them and to e " e results of his experi- 

ments in their ... . j. .nients. He be^an in 



1873 ^"^^ three greenhouses in the north- 
western part of the town, where his flowers 
so generously responded to his care and at- 
tention and brought him such financial re- 
turns, that he Anally decided to give up other 
business enterprises and devote himself to 
the cuJti\-ation of flowers as his sole occupa- 
tion. Old residents still recall his four green- 
houses on the comer of Sixth and Jule 
streets. They were tom down to make way 
for larger and more convenient ones. In 
1887 Mr. Stuppy purchased a block of land 
on the Mount Mora road, adjacent to Mount 
Mora cemeter}-, and here he erected seven 
greenhouses, with an area under glass equiv- 
alent to a space eighty by 140 feet in dimen- 
sions. There are now twent>'-one green- 
houses ^\-ith over 75.000 square feet under 
glass. They are equipped with all kinds of 
modem improvements and are heated by 
steam. The Central green houses make a 
specialty- of roses, of which Mr. Stuppy has 
the greatest \-ariet}-. some of his own de\-el- 
oping: under his excellent care they bloom 
luxuriantly throughout the j^ear. Cut flow- 
ers of all kinds, and palms and plants for 
ever^■ occasion are dealt in, both wholesale 
and retail. Ten men are employed in and 
about the greenhouses, Mr. Stuppy remains 
the president of the company : Mrs. Stuppy is 
treasurer, and his son, Frank X.. is secretary 
and manager. The main oflBce and sales- 
rooms are located at Sixth and Francis 
streets, with a branch cut flower store at 
Xo. 823 Frederick avenue, while the green- 
houses extend from Xo. 815 to Xo. 835 
Mount Mora road, or Xorth Fifteenth street. 
In May. 1876. Mr. Stuppj- was married 
to .\nnie E. Schiesl. who was bom in Dtm- 
kirk. X". Y. They ha\-e six children living. 
The family are Catholics and are members 
of the Cathedral congregation. Politically. 



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Mr. Stuppy is a Democrat. He owns much 
city properly, including his own handsome 
residence at Xo. 604 North Eleventh street. 
Business address. North Sixth, soutlieast 
comer Francis : residence address. 604 North 
Eleveiitli street, St. Joseph, ^Missouri. 



P. E. CONROY, 



P. E. Conroy. Piano dealer. Bom 
!March 2, 1S64. in Ireland. Son of Thomas 
and ^lan.- (Welby) Conroy. Educated in 
the Northeastern (Mass.) high school. Mr. 
Conroy was a traveling salesman for Boston 
and Cincinnati firms until 18S7. In 1905 he 
organized, and is president, of the following 
companies : Conroy Piano Company, and 
Reliable Specialty Company, incorporated in 
1905, and previously the Edison Talking 
Machine Company. The Conroy Piano 
Company controls a large territon,- in the 
southwest in the sale of their pianos, and are 
the western representatives for Thomas A. 
Edison on his line of phonographs. 

In reUgious belief Mr. Conroy is a Cath- 
olic. In pohtics he is independent. He 
was married, in 1890, to iSIiss DeHa Mo- 
riart)-. Children bom, one son. Robert T. 
Conroy. Business address, 1 100 Olive street ; 
residence address, 4107 McPherson avenue. 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES E. PATRICK. 

James E. Patrick, attomey-at-law and 
member of the prominent firm of Pat- 
rick & Lea, real estate dealers, promoters 
and rental agents, with a fine suite of offices 



at No. 511 Francis street, St. Joseph, with 
ofiices also in the Tacoma building in Chi- 
cago, was bom in Nebraska City, Neb., in 
1874, and is a son of James W. and Jose- 
phine (Jobe) Patrick. 

James E. Patrick was educated in St. 
Joseph and in the University of Michigan, 
where he was graduated from the law de- 
partment in 1893. He was admitted to prac- 
tice in Buchanan county- in 1894, and imme- 
diately thereafter accepted the position of 
attorney and secretarj- to George T. Hoag- 
land, now deceased. When the Hoagland 
Loan &; Investment Company was incorpo- 
rated he continued as its attorney and sec- 
retary luitil August I, 1903, when he re- 
signed to devote his attention to his present 
business. The firm of Patrick & Lea, the 
jtmior member being J. J. Lea, is the only 
one in the cit}- conducting an extensive out- 
side business in real estate, loans and invest- 
ments, tlieir business extending pretty well 
over the L'nited States. They handle city 
and farm properties all over the countr}-. 
In the stocks and bonds department imlisted 
stocks and bonds are handled, mainly local, 
this being a departure from the usual lines 
of real estate men. In the promoting depart- 
ment all legitimate enterprises and inven- 
tions are financed and put upon their feet. 
The)- represent the Prudential Life Insur- 
ance Company, making farm loans in this 
section of the state, and also make loans for 
other clients on farm and citj' properties near 
St. Joseph, in Missouri, Kansas and Ne- 
braska. The growth of the firm's business 
necessitated the opening of an office in Chi- 
cago also, and ilr. Patrick is now devoting 
most of his time to the Chicago office. He 
is interested in the St. Joseph, Stanberr^- & 
Northern Railway Company, and St. Joseph 
Interurban Railway Company, at St. Joseph, 



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of which he is vice-president. When the 
i<)ad is completed, it will be the first inter- 
urban railway to enter St. Joseph. Our sub- 
ject is one of the most enterprising and ener- 
getic business men of the city, and is held in 
highest esteem by everyone with whom he 
is brought in contact. 

In 1899 Mr. Patrick was joined in mar- 
riage with Jennie Kearny, a daughter of the 
late Charles Kearny, a record of whose life 
appears elsewhere in this work. Our sub- 
ject is a Democrat in politics, and socially is 
a member of the Lotus and Commercial 
clubs. In religious attachment he is a mem- 
ber of the Protestant Episcopal church. 
Business address. No. 511 Francis street, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



SANFORD BURRITT LADD. 

Sanford Burritt Ladd. Born Septem- 
ber II, 1844, at Milford, Mich. Son 
of Daniel M. and Martha A. (Hartwell) 
Ladd. Acquired his education in the public 
schools and the University of Michigan, 
where he graduated in 1865. Read law with 
Hon. G. V. N. Lothrop, of Detroit. Mich., 
afterwards minister to Russia. In 1868 was 
admitted to the bar in Michigan. Same year 
removed to Kansas City, Mo., where he 
began the practice, and for one year he prac- 
ticed alone, then entered into partnership 
with John C. Gage that existed until 1882. 
In 1882 Charles E. Small became a member 
of the firm which was Gage, Ladd & Small. 
After two years spent in establishing himself 
in his new field he returned to Ann Arbor, 
and in 1870 married Miss Clara L. Fuller, 
whom he had becaiffe acquainted with in his 
college days. Since he went to Kansas City, 



in 1868, Mr. Ladd has continued in his pro- 
fession there. In 1892-93 he was president 
of the Kansas City Bar Association. In 1900 
he was the nominee of the Republican party 
for judge of the Supreme court. He has 
been president of the University Club, of 
Kansas City, and for several years has been 
lecturer on the law of real property in the 
Kansas City School of Law. Of Mr. Ladd 
we quote the language of Judge Black, de- 
ceased : "Mr. Ladd possesses in a singular 
degree the power to state a case fairly and 
clearly, and he can present the facts of a case 
with such fine equity and effect that the 
opposing counsel can seldom find much to 
add thereto, though, of course, stating the 
elements of a case so they will put his client's 
case in the best possible light. It is all done 
with such consummate tact and delicacy, with 
such apparent freedorn from prejudice, that 
the justice and candor of the statement is 
likely to have a deeper influence with the 
jury than the most vehement partisanship." 
Business address, 605 New York Life build- 
ing, Kansas City, Missouri. 



EDWIN R. HOGG. 



Edwin R. Hogg, lumber merchant, was 
born October 16, 1863, at Hannibal, 
Mo., attending the public schools of that 
city until fifteen years of age, when he went 
to work in his father's planing mill, where 
he continued three years. When of age he 
went to Western Kansas to take charge of 
the lumber yard of S. A. Braun & Co. After 
six months he resigned this position and 
traveled for J. J. Cruikshank. of Hannibal. 
Mo., selling lumber in the west until March, 
1893, when he came to Jefferson City and 



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33 



purchased of Captain J. L. Kcinvn. his lum- 
ber yard, where he now contiuues business. 
He has built up a large and prosperous busi- 
ness selling lumber extensively in li\e coun- 
ties. In 1S95. he was married to Miss 



Fry was educated in the public schools of his 
nati\e state, and subscipieutly attended the 
L'nixersity of Micliii^an, at Ann Arlior, 
where he was gratlnated with the degree of 
liaeheKir oi Laws, March, iS-(). The tol- 



Mande McHenry. The ties of this union lowing September he began his ])rofcssional 
have been strengthened by the birth and 
presence of two manly boys, Jul. R., jr., and 
Jack McH. 

Mr. Hogg is a member of the M. \V. A., 
K. of P., and the Elks. He is president of 
the Commercial Club, which, under his di- 
rection, has develoi)ed into one of the strong- 
est in the city. Tht)ugh a prominent Demo- 
crat he has never held or sought office. 

Mr. Hogg is a public spirited, ])rogres- 



careei", ;md since h;is conlroJU'd a splendid 
general law business, being a nu'inbrr nl' :\\\ 
courts, and holding high rank as an atloiMiey, 
Mr. l'"ry w.is admitted to the Supreme court 
of Missoini in iS;-;r, to the .Supi cnu- c.iiit 
(d' the I'niled .S|:Ucs in |S()-, ,ind h;is scrvcil 
as speci.al judge id' the I'iicnil courl on ilii 
ferent occasions. I U' is prdininenlly idcnii 
bed willi tlu' leading b.ir ;issiu-i.itions, in 
which he has bei'u bunnicd wiib many iin- 



sive man and one who lends his inllnence to liortant ol'lices, and li;is taken .1 iiKmniicMl 

every movement to forward the interests of {'art in the judiciary eomniillcrs n\ iju- sLilr 

the city of his adoption. conventions. A large part of bis puclicc 

In 1902 he sold out his business in Jef- '1:1^ heen in the high coints ni Missoini, -.wu] 

ferson City, and was connected with the H. '"•' ''''is cases recorded in all of the re|iinls ni 

C. McDaniel Lumber Co., of Wes.son, Ark. I'le Supreme court from the sixlydirst Id (he 

On account of ill health in that locality he <"'e hundred ;iiid ninely fnurlh vnliime,, ;iiii| 

was compelled to leave, and returned and ^''('O from the first to the ninely-si.xth reports 

organized the Ed. R. Hogg Lumber Co., of '>f I'lc Court of Appeals. J le is president of 

Jefferson City, Mo., of which he is presi- I'l^-" Mexico Savings Hank, which posiiion he 

tlent. His business address is 113 E. Main has filled for ten years, .and has also reprc- 

street, and residence, corner Main and Jack- senled them as attorney for fifteen years. 

son streets, JefYerson City. Missouri. This institution was organi/.ed in 1K73, and 

is now one of the solid concerns nf (he state, 

^ • » . ... 

with a ca])ital, surplus and undivided pmlii , 

WILLIAM WALLACE FRY '^^ alx)ve one hundred ;iiid fifty thousand 

dollars with dejjosits in excess of five 

William Wallace Fry, of Mexico, Mo., hundred and thirty-five tlvHisand dol- 

an eminent attorney and president of the lars. In every oik' of its dei)artmcnts 

Mexico Savings Bank, was born in Pike may be seen the splendid effects of his able 

county, Mo., August 18, 185 1, son of Jacob direction and conservative management. Mr. 

Y. and Elizabeth (Jordan) Fry. The Fry is local attorney for the Chicago, Ikir- 

former was born in Pike county, Mo., in lington & Quincy system of railways, and 

1820, and was of Kentucky ancestry, and the rei)rescnts many more important corporate 

latter was a native of Pike county. Mo., and and private interests, 
descended from South Carolina stock. Mr. Mr. Fry was married, on November 25, 



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1880, to Nettie, daughter of Dr. R. W. 
Bourne, an old and highly respected resident 
of Missouri, and they have two children, 
viz. : Wallace W., sixteen years of age, and 
a graduate of the Missouri Military Academy 
of the class of 1903 ; and Gertrude, a student. 
Mrs. Fry is a woman of culture and rare in- 
tellectual attainments, having been educated 
at Staunton, Va., and taking much interest 
in literary matters. Mr. Fry is a leading 
member of the Methodist Episcopal church 
south, is steward of the same and actively 
participates in the great work of this organ- 
ization for the progress and betterment of 
humanity. The life of Mr. Fry has been a 
very successful one from many viewpoints, 
and he has accomplished these results by his 
ability and energy, never swerving from his 
ideas of right and wrong to gratify ambition, 
but always bearing in mind and shaping his 
course by the principles of honor and truth — 
the elements which cement the world and 
guarantee its perpetuity, and without which 
life is not worth living. Business and resi- 
dence address, Mexico, Missouri. 



♦-•-• 

JAMES ARBUCKLE. 

James Arbuckle, consul for the Republic 
of Colombia, is a native of Scotland, born 
February 12, 1840, in Rutherglen, Lanark- 
shire, Scotland. Parents, George Graeme 
Arbuckle and Margaret (Baird) Arbuckle. 
He is a lineal descendant of one of the most 
ancient and powerful Scottish families, his 
ancestor. King Malcolm "the Grim." having 
given the name "Ar-Bukle" to his son 
"James the Grim" in recognition of his 
knightly accom^Jishments. "Grim" was 
later Latinized into "Graeme," which con- 



tinued to be a part of the family name for 
several generations. The subject of this 
sketch obtained his academic education at 
St. James' School, Glasgow, and later entered 
Andersonian University of the same city to 
prepare for the ministry, or possibly the 
diplomatic service. Upon completing his 
education, however, he abandoned these ideas 
and entered a commission house of reputa- 
tion in Glasgow, engaged in trade chiefly 
with South America and Africa. In 1859 
he came to this country and, reaching St. 
Louis the same year, he connected himself 
with the well known dry goods house of 
Ubsdell, Pierson & Company, now known 
as the William Barr Dry Goods Company. 
He became dissatisfied in St. Louis and re- 
turned to New Orleans, from which point he 
had first embarked for St. Louis. In New 
Orleans he was appointed by the old mercan- 
tile house of Peet, Sims & Company, of that 
city, collector and adjuster of their outstand- 
ing accounts in north TvOuisiana, Texas and 
Indian Territory. In this capacity he started 
out on horseback with notes and accounts 
aggregating a million and a half dollars in 
his possession. He retained this position 
until 1862 when the breaking out of the war 
prevented his work being carried on. By 
great tact Mr. Arbuckle, in accepting as pay- 
ment of debts large amount of cotton, en- 
abled his house to resume business after the 
war, notwithstanding most severe losses. 
During the war Mr. Arbuckle was engaged 
mainly in blockade running and shipping 
cotton across the Mexican border. In 1866 
he opened a banking house at Jefiferson, 
Texas, but eight years later closed the bank, 
paying his depositors in full, and removed to 
Galveston, where he took up the cotton com- 
mission business. He was president of the 
Chamber of Commerce of Galveston in 1879. 



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In 1884 he changed his business location tc 
Dallas, Texas, where he remained until the 
financial crisis of 1893, when he came to St. 
Louis. For the next two years he held an 
important position with the Standard Oil 
Company, and since then has been identified 
with several business interests in St. Louis, 
being a partner in the Arbuckle-Goode Com- 
mission Company. Mr. Arbuckle is manager 
of the Latin-American Club and Foreign 
Trade Association, and is also managing 
editor of El Bolcton Coinmcrcial. He rep- 
resents the Colombian Government as their 
consul. 

Li 1863 he married Miss Mary H. Cas- 
tleton. Their family consists of six sons 
and one daughter. Business address, 1 10 
North Fourth street; residence, 561 1 Bart- 
ner avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DANIEL BOONE HOLMES. 

Daniel Boone Holmes was born March 
13, 1850, at Lexington, Ky. He is the 
son of 'John and Sally A. (Gilbert) Holmes. 
The father, a native of Virginia, was 
for many years a justice of the peace of 
Lexington, Ky. The mother was a native 
of Maryland. Daniel Boone was the young- 
est and is now the only survivor of a family 
of nine children. He was a little more than 
a year old when his father died in 1851. He 
acquired his education in the public schools 
of his native state, and the Transylvania 
High School, and at Kentucky University, 
where he graduated in 1870 with the degree 
of A. B. During the senior year at Ken- 
tucky University he studied law under a 
private tutor, and with a distinguished law 
firm of that place. In the spring of 1871 he 
3 



was licensed to practice his profession by the 
judges of the Kentucky Court of Appeals. 
In the same year he entered the Harvard 
Law School where he graduated in June, 
1872, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. 
In 1872 he removed to Kansas City, Mo., 
and was shortly afterward admitted to prac- 
tice in the courts of Missouri. In 1892 he 
was admitted to practice before the Supreme 
Court of the United States. In 1873 he 
formed a partnership with the Hon. Thomas 
V. Bryant, which lasted for over thirteen 
years. After dissolution of the firm Mr. 
Holmes practiced alone until Jan. i, 1899, 
when the law firm of Karnes, Holmes & 
Krauthoff was formed and lasted until Jan. 
I, 1899. lie was then for more than three 
years a partner of Hon. W. C. Perry, under 
the firm name of Holmes & Perry, and is 
now senior member of the law firm of 
Holmes & Page. He is a member of the 
Missouri State Bar Association, American 
Bar Association, and Kansas City Bar As- 
sociation, and has been president of the last 
named association. He is also a life member 
of the Harvard Law School Association. 
Has been largely connected with the opera- 
tion and construction of the Kansas City 
Street Railway Lines and to him Kansas 
City is greatly indebted for its splendid sys- 
tem of rapid transit. His first efi:orts were 
enlisted in this line of work when new in- 
ventions suggested a change, in 1886, from 
the old style to electric and cable energy. 
He has been active in projecting and organ- 
izing both the Grand Avenue cable road, 
and the electric line to Independence. He 
continued to act as counsel of the associated 
lines and the consolidated metropolitan lines 
up to a recent date. Mr. Holmes was mar- 
ried at Jefferson City, Mo., on February 6, 
1877, to Miss Lyda A. Massey, daughter of 



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Hon. Benjamin F. Massey, formerly Secre- 
tary of State of the state of Missouri, and 
a member of the Constitutional Convention 
which framed the constitution of Missouri 
of 1875. There has been born three chil- 
dren, Massey Bryant, Sidney and Mignon 
Gilbert Holmes. Mrs. Holmes is a member 
of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion, and of the Colonial Dames of America, 
and is a member of several art and literary 
societies of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. Holmes 
has never sought nor held political office. 
He is a member of the board of thirteen 
freeholders now engaged in the important 
work of framing a new charter for Kansas 
City. Business address, 413 Keith & Perry 
building; residence, Washington Hotel, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



. ELROY E. CODDING. 

Elroy E. Codding. One of the most 
active, useful and popular citizens of Se- 
dalia is Mr. Elroy E. Codding. Though 
still a comparatively young man, just in the 
prime of mature manhood, he may be classed 
as one of the original Sedalians. 

He was born in Medina county, Ohio, 
and came to Sedalia in 1867. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of Sedalia and at 
Missouri State University. After having 
held various clerkships in Sedalia he entered 
the service of the United States Express 
Company in 1879, under George L. Faul- 
haber. When this company, in 18S0. relin- 
quished this territory Mr. Codding contin- 
ued with its successor, the Pacific Express 
Company, and has been with it ever since. 
In 1882 he was transferred to the St. Louis 
office and remained there until 1896, when 



he was returned to Sedalia as local agent. 
He has conducted the business here with 
signal ability and to the entire satisfaction of 
all concerned. 

The high esteem in which Air. Codding 
is held is shown by the many posts of honor 
he holds and has held in recent years. He 
is w-orthy grand patron. Order of the Eastern 
Star; district deputy grand master, A. F. 
& A. M., two years; chairman of the Repub- 
lican county committee six years; secretary 
of Sedalia Lodge, No. 236, A. F. & A. M. ; 
recorder of King David Council, Royal and 
Select Masters ; secretary of the Liberty Park 
board; clerk of Sedalia Camp, No. 5570, M. 
W. A. ; superintendent of the poultry depart- 
ment of the Missouri State Fair ; manager of 
the Sedalia baseball club of the Alissouri Val- 
ley League ; and a prominent member. of the 
Elks. 

Mr. Codding is prominent in nearly all 
public movements and enterprises in the city, 
and requisition is almost constantly being 
made on his services as an organizer and 
director of local functions and celebrations. 
Particularly is this true in the matter of solic- 
iting funds for these events, for it is univer- 
sally recognized that he is past master in the 
art of raising money for public occasions. 
Residence address, 216 West Sixth street, 
Sedalia, Missouri. 



CYRUS EDGAR CLARK. 

Cyrus Edgar Clark. Merchant and man- 
ufacturer. Born February 19, 1853, in Rah- 
way. Union county, N. J. Son of Daniel 
and Harriet (Williams) Clark. His par- 
ents removed from New Jersey to St. Louis 
in 1858, and he was reared in that city, re- 



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ceiving a thorough educational training in 
the pubHc schools. At the end of a scientific 
course of study he was graduated with honor 
from the high school. As a boy he saw the 
first street cars placed on the streets of St. 
Louis, and he was witness, also, of some of 
the most exciting events of the Civil war 
period. He saw the Federal troops return- 
ing from the capture of Camp Jackson, with 
many prominent citizens in custody, who 
were being conveyed to the old United States 
arsenal. He saw General Grant ride through 
the city at the head of his troops, and at the 
great Sanitary Fair he was the "boy in wait- 
ing" at the booth in which Nellie Grant im- 
personated "the old woman who lived in a 
shoe." Soon after graduating from the high 
school he entered his father's mercantile 
establishment, and under the tutorship of 
that accomplished man of affairs was thor- 
oughly trained to business pursuits. After 
working his way upward from one position 
to another, and thoroughly mastering all 
the details of the business he was admitted 
to a partnership. Upon the death of his 
father, in 1895, the other partners withdrew, 
and Mr. Clark then organized the James 
Clark Leather Company, a corporation of 
which he has since been president. Mr. Clark 
has interests in tanning, and other business, 
in Michigan, holding positions as director in 
large companies, and holds a high position 
in the financial interests of St. Louis. 

Politically Mr. Clark affiliates with the 
Republican party, and has been an active 
participant in its councils, and was one of 
the party managers in St. Louis in the presi- 
dential campaign of 1896. Is a member of 
the Presbyterian church, being officially con- 
nected with the Second Presbyterian church 
as trustee, deacon and treasurer. He is iden- 
tified with the fraternal organizations of the 



city as a member of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and the Legion of Honor, 
He married, in 1876, Miss Mary Cliff War- 
ren, of St. Louis. The children born to this 
union are: Celeste W., Warren D., Arline 
and Robert E. Clark. Business address 907- 
909 Washington avenue; residence ad- 
dress, 4363 McPherson avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



ERNEST F. HARTWIG. 

Ernest F. Hartwig, one of the enter- 
prising, successful and prominent citizens 
of St. Joseph, conducting an extensive 
business as a wholesale dealer in liquors, was 
born in Niedermollrich, near Cassel, Ger- 
many, and is a son of Frederick Oswald and 
Elizabeth (Rosenblath) Hartwig. 

Mr. Hartwig was educated in his native 
land and reared on a farm, but his inclina- 
tion led him to prefer business, and in 1862 
he followed his older brother, Henry R. W. 
Hartwig, to America and joined him at St. 
Joseph, Mo. Soon after reaching St. Joseph 
he became bookkeeper for the mercantile 
house of Stix & Eckjart, and remained 
with this firm until 1869, and then became 
associated with the firm of H. R. W. Hart- 
wig & Company in the wholesale liquor bus- 
iness. The older brother soon became a 
prominent factor in politics and with many 
responsibilities of office upon him — being 
made mayor of the city in 1884, — he gradu- 
ally withdrew from the business, severing 
his connection entirely in 1888, since which 
t'me Mr. E. F. Hartwig has been at the head 
of the concern. Since its founding in 1864 
this house has been noted for its business 
integrity, a reputation it has sustained. No 
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mercial world throughout the west, where 
il is best known, and no business man is re- 
garded with more esteem than its present 
proprietor. He is treasurer of the St. Joseph 
Chamber of Commerce, and, with his 
brother, Major Hartwig, is prominently 
identified with the Commercial Club. 

On March i8, 1868, Air. Hartwig was 
married to Emma Freidrich, and they have 
a family of five children. The family belong 
to the Lutheran church. They enjoy one 
of the most beautiful homes in St. Joseph, 
located at No. 502 South Ninth street. Mr. 
Hartwig belongs to a number of fraternal 
and social organizations, being popular in 
all, namely : Knights of Pythias, Red Men, 
and the Benton and Country clubs, the latter 
being exclusive social bodies. Mr. Hartwig 
is one of the city's substantial men, liberal 
and public-spirited, and has always actively 
encouraged laudible enterprises. His genial 
manner has attracted many to his friendship, 
and he is widely known through this section 
of the state. He belongs to a family whose 
afifairs have been closely interwoven with 
those of St. Joseph for many years. Business 
address, 212 South Third street; residence 
address, 502 South Ninth street, St. Joseph, 
Alissouri. 



WALTER ANGELO POWELL. 

Walter Angelo Powell, architect, at St. 
Joseph, is one of the city's most highly es- 
teemed citizens. He was born in Baltimore, 
Md.. January 7. 1828, and is a son of Sam- 
uel R. and Mary (Kelley) Powell. 

From boyhood Mr. Powell evinced a 
love for the profession in which he later 
attained such enrfnence. While still laying 
the foundation of his literary education, he 



found more pleasure in the work of his 
pencil, which fell naturally to tracing sym- 
etrical lines. As soon as released from com- 
mon school course Air. Powell began the 
study of architecture with Alinard Le Fevre, 
of New York City, with whom he remained 
about five years. He then started out to 
practice what he had learned, working in the 
environs of New York City until 1846, when 
he returned to Baltimore. At that time 
architecture and civil engineering as special 
sciences had few devotees, there being only 
eleven skilled architects in the whole United 
States, and Mr. Powell had a personal ac- 
quaintance with them all. Upon his return 
to Baltimore he formed a partnership with 
Carey Long, under the firm name of Long 
& Powell, but the death of Mr. Long, at 
New York, a victim of cholera, a short time 
after, dissolved the partnership and disar- 
ranged the firm's plans. Mr. Powell then 
went to Washington, D. C, where he soon 
became associated with an architect named 
Robert Alills, who had been appointed super- 
vising architect for the government. The 
firm soon had high hopes of great success, 
as the plans they made and submitted for an 
extension of the capitol were adopted by 
both houses of congress. At the critical 
moment political influence, antagonistic to 
this firm, was brought to bear and the vote 
was reconsidered. A prize of $500 was 
offered for new plans. These were prepared 
by Thomas U. Walters, for whom Mr. 
Powell made the perspective drawings. After 
this disappointment he returned to Balti- 
more, and soon after went to Cincinnati, 
Ohio. There he soon found an appreciative 
public and built up a large business, at one 
period employing as many as twenty 
draughtsmen in his ofiice. It was in Cin- 
cinnati that Mr. Powell formed the acquaint- 



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ance and gained the lifelong friendship of 
Salmon P. Chase, George B. AlcCellan, 
Rutherford B. Hayes and William S. Rose- 
crans, all of whom became of such great 
national importance in the years following. 
The outbreak of the Civil war offered Mr. 
Powell a chance to put in practice his knowl- 
edge of civil engineering, which theretofore 
had been scarcely utilized. Urged by his 
military friends, who sought to benefit the 
army by his skill, he finally closed up his 
private enterprises and entered the service as 
an engineer. After drilling two companies 
at Cincinnati he went to the front, first with 
General Rosecrans' command, and subse- 
quently with General Averill's and Sheri- 
dan's. He was made engineer of the Eighth 
army corps and built one of the forts at 
Washington City, and also the fortifications 
at Winchester. His services continued until 
May 21, 1866, when he was mustered out. 
After a short residence at Cincinnati he ac- 
cepted engineering work in Tennessee, Geor- 
gia and Alabama, running preliminary lines 
for different railroad companies who began 
to project plans for opening up the rich re- 
sources of the south. His duties included the 
making of reports on the mineralogy along 
the routes, and affording details of all kinds 
to his employers. Upon completing these 
enterprises satisfactorily, on September 28, 
1866, he entered the crude overgrown town 
of St. Joseph. Since coming here Mr. 
Powell has wrought many changes through 
the e.xercise of his art. He has laid out 
parks and cemeteries, planned and remodeled 
the Tootle Theatre, St. Joseph, and the lead- 
ing place of amusement at Atchison, and 
has furnished designs for hundreds of build- 
ings of more or less importance. 

Mr. Powell married Cecelia Gilymer, 
who is a daughter of John Gilymer. of Hag- 



erstown, Md. The early enthusiasm felt by 
Mr. Powell for his profession has never left 
him. Business address, 54 Commercial 
block; residence address, 1349 Buchanan 
street, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



FRANK LOUIS WRIGHT. 

Frank Louis Wright. Manufacturer. 
Born July 18, 1854, in St. Louis. Son 
of James A. and Louisa (Potter) Wright. 
Entering St. Louis University at an early 
age. he was graduated from that insti- 
tution in the class of 1870. Mr. Wright 
passed all the years of his life in St. Louis 
and during all his business career he was 
connected with the great carriage manufac- 
turing establishment founded by his father. 
Immediately after his graduation from 
school, he went to work in his father's car- 
riage factory and was trained by the elder 
Wright to the business which he afterward 
followed. In 1876 he was admitted to a 
partnership with his father and brother in 
the firm of James A. Wright & Sons, of 
which he continued to be a member until 
1883. After the death of the senior mem- 
ber of this firm, the brothers incorporated 
the business as the James A. Wright and 
Sons Carriage Company, and of this cor- 
poration Frank L. Wright was secretary and 
treasurer. In the management of this en- 
terprise, the brothers supplemented each 
other's efforts in such a way as to produce a 
strong combination of tact, energy and busi- 
ness sagacity, and the result has been an ex- 
pansion of trade and constantly increasing 
prestige for its manufactures. Mr. Wright 
was a member of the Merchants' Exchange, 
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Fair Association. Politically he was identi- 
fied with the gold standard wing of the 
Democratic party. Mr. Wright died June 
30, 1904. His business address is Wash- 
ington and 19th streets, St. Louis, Missouri. 
ington avenue and 19th streets, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



REV. JOHN FENTON HEXDY, D. D. 

Rev. John Fenton Hendy, D. D., pastor 
of the First Presbyterian Church of Jefferson 
City, Mo., was born in North Ireland, Au- 
gust 23, 1837. His parents were Francis and 
Martha (Molyneu.x) Hendy. The father 
was in the linen industry, one for which that 
country is famous. In 1841 the family emi- 
grated to America and settled on a farm in 
Kenton county, Ky., where the father was 
a farmer. The early etlucation of the subject 
of this sketch was in the neighboring schools. 
At the age of twenty he entered Centre, the 
famous college of Danville, Ky., from which 
institution he graduated in the class of 1862. 
In the fall of the same year he entered the 
theological department of Princeton Univer- 
sity, New Jersey, graduating in the class of 
1865. In 1864 lie was licensed by the Pres- 
bytery at Augusta, Ky., and in 1865 he was 
ordained in the Second church of Covington, 
Ky. He was then elected as pastor 
to the churches of Crittenden and Lebanon, 
in Grant county, Ky., where he spent two 
)'ears. From there, in 1867, in response to a 
call, he removed to Vincennes, Ind., where 
his services as pastor were attended with 
happy results during the following five years. 
During his stay he was tendered the presi- 
dency of Vincennes University, which he 
declined. In 18/ 2 he removed to Owens- 
boro, Ky., where he was spiritual advisor of 



the First church the following nine years. 
During his ministry at this place he was five 
months in Europe, in 1880. In 1881 he 
responded to a call to the pulpit of the First 
church of Emporia, Kans., where, in addi- 
tion to the duties of pastor of the church, 
he was president of the New Presbyterian 
College, the exacting duties of which, one 
year later, required his resignation as pastor 
of the church. Here he remained ten years, 
and in addition to the duties of directing the 
educational affairs of the institution, he was 
its financial director, which included the rais- 
ing of a large sum of money, $50,000 of 
which, by the exercise of his strong person- 
ality, backed by a good cause, he was able 
to gather from the wealthier people of the 
older settled eastern states. During his 
administration magnificent buildings were 
erected at a cost of $90,000, the money being 
raised by his earnest and well directed efforts. 
In 1892 he resigned on account of over-work, 
and made a second tour of Europe. On re- 
turning, he was again called to the educa- 
tional work as president of the college at 
Oswego, Kans. He remained there three 
years, doing most acceptable work. Then 
came his resignation and third trip to 
Europe. In 1896 he accepted a call to his 
present charge. 

On December 5, 1865, Rev. Hendy was 
united in marriage to Nannie, daughter of 
J. A. McClure, a prominent farmer and 
planter of Grant county, Ky. Three chil- 
dren were born to this union : William 
Rankin, a successful surgeon in Chicago ; the 
second, Mrs. G. F. Swezey, a woman of rare 
culture, and Edwin M., deputy state veteri- 
nary surgeon of Missouri, his home being in 
Jefferson City. 

Rev. Dr. Hendy is remarkably well pre- 
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great force, and his well stored mind is like 
a rare mosaic. His dearly beloved wife has 
passed to her high reward leaving many sor- 
rowing friends behind. Residence address, 
306 East Dunklin street, Jefferson City, 

Missouri. 

•-•-• 

JAMES EVERETT SEAVER. 

James Everett Seaver, of Kansas City, 
Mo., was born at Batavia, Genesee county, 
N. Y., December 6, 1851, his parents being 
James Everett and Nancy Keith Seaver. The 
father was the son of William and Nancy 
(McCleary) Seaver, and the mother was the 
daughter of Nathan and Nancy (Keith) 
Follett. The father, James Everett Seaver, 
conducted a combined drug store and book 
store at Batavia until his death in 1852. 
Nathan Follett and his family lived at Bata- 
via until 1850, when they moved to Ypsi- 
lanti, Mich. The first of the Seavers in 
America was Robert, a young Englishman 
who embarked from England in the ship 
"Mary and John," and landed at Boston m 
1633. He married Elizabeth Ballard, reared 
several children, and settled at Roxbury, his 
homestead standing at what is now the junc- 
tion of Center and Amary streets, now with- 
in the city of Boston. There, or near there, 
the family lived for several generations. 
Maj. William Seaver, of the fifth generation, 
and Capt. William Seaver of the sixth gen- 
eration, served as officers, and with honor, 
in the Revolutionary war. 

The father dying when our subject was 
one year old, he was taken by his mother to 
Ypsilanti, ]\Iich., where he grew up and at- 
tended the public schools until the age of 
seventeen years. He learned the milling bus- 
iness of his grandfather Follett, who owned 



and operated a large mill at Ypsilanti; but 
in 1870 went to California and spent two 
years in traveling through the west, where 
the greater part of his business life has been 
spent. He first came to Kansas City in 
1878 and engaged in the grain business, in 
which he has been continuously engaged 
down to the present time. His excellent suc- 
cess and high business and social standing 
are due to his sound judgment, wise and pru- 
dent methods, strictly honorable conduct and 
native ability. He is now president of the 
Kansas City Board of Trade ; vice-president 
and general manager of the Midland Eleva- 
tor Company; director of the Commercial 
Club, and an officer and stockholder in sev- 
eral other commercial and manufacturing 
companies. He is a Chapter Mason, thirty- 
second degree Scottish Rite and Shriner. He 
is a Democrat in politics, and in religious 
matters affiliates with the Episcopal church. 
On December 22, 1875, Mr. Seaver mar- 
ried, at Ypsilanti, Mich., Bella Ralston Carr, 
daughter of David and Cynthia Ann Carr, 
and they have one child, Everett Herbert 
Seaver, born September 2, 1886. Business 
address. Board of Trade building; residence 
address, 1414 Linwood Boulevard, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



JOSEPH POTTER WRIGHT. 

Joseph Potter Wright, manufacturer, 
born October 28, 1852, in St. Louis, and 
educated at St. Louis University, from which 
he was graduated in the class of 1869. 
The following year he became connected 
with the carriage building establishment 
operated by his father, that placed him 
in a position which made it necessary for 



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him to become thoroughly familiar with 
the workings of the mechanical departments 
of the manufactory. After going through 
this course of training, he took charge of 
the office affairs of the factory and in 1876 
became a member of the firm, which then be- 
came James A. Wright & Sons. The fac- 
tory was then located on Broadway, and 
continued its business there until 1882, when 
a new building was erected by the firm at the 
corner of Washington Avenue and Nine- 
teenth street where this establishment has 
since conducted its business. In 1883, the 
enterprise was incorporated and Joseph P. 
Wright became president of the company, a 
position which he still retains. In the con- 
duct of this industry, he has earned a well 
decerved position of prominence among men 
of affairs in St. Louis. Mr. Wright is a 
member of the Merchants' Exchange. He 
is identified with the gold standard wing of 
the Democratic party, and is an independent 
thinker also in religious matters, but is gen- 
erous in his contributions to charitable en- 
terprises and is unmarried. Business ad- 
dress is Washington Ave. and 19th street, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



MONROE P. BELCH. 

Monroe P. Belch, attorney at law, of the 
firm of Pope & Belch, was born October 6, 
1868, in Jefferson City, Mo., his early edu- 
cation being in the public schools; later he 
took an academic course of two years at the 
Missouri State University, at Columbia. 
From 1890 to 1895 he was assistant state 
librarian, and while in this position he fol- 
lowed his inhented taste for the legal pro- 
fession, studying law while in the library. 



He was admitted to practice by Judge Dor- 
sey W. Shackleford, now a member of Con- 
gress from this district, in 1S94. In No- 
vember, 1895, he associated with Hon. W. S. 
Pope, in the practice of law. The firm en- 
joyed a large and lucrative practice, their 
office being in the county court house. The 
latter firm has recently been dissolved. Our 
subject has been honored by his ward with 
the office of alderman one term. 

Mr. Belch is a son of the late distin- 
guished J. Ed. Belch, who was a prominent 
attorney of Jefferson City, a member of the 
State Senate in 1874, and speaker of the 
House of Representatives in 1879. In 1882 
he was a strong candidate for Congress. 
Residence address, 421 East Water street, 
Jefferson City, Missouri. 



FRANK B. SLIGER. 

Frank B. Sliger. Supreme treasurer of 
the Knights of Honor. Born July 16, 1856, 
in New Orleans, La. Son of Samuel and 
Mary (Klotz) Sliger. Educated in the 
public schools of New Orleans, La., and 
graduated at the New Orleans high school. 

Mr. Sliger has temporarily located in the 
city of St. Louis from the state of Arkansas, 
of which state he was a worthy and 
esteemed citizen, having occupied high civic 
official positions as mayor, treasurer and 
alderman of Helena, Ark., beginning April 
4, 1882, as city treasurer, and closing his 
official tenure of mayor in 1904. In 1903 
he was elected supreme treasurer of the 
Knights of Honor, with headquarters and 
general offices in the Odd Fellows' building, 
St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Sliger brings with him 
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to our midst that has characterized him in 
the state he came from. Worthy of the con- 
fidence of the people, he has never betrayed 
any private or pubhc trust in tlie many years 
he has been a pubhc official. Not a partisan 
in any sense of the word, yet has faithfully 
edhered to Democratic principles all of his 
life, and may be considered a self-made man. 
He began his career as a cash boy and deliv- 
ery messenger, became bookkeeper and, in 
1872, cashier of the First National Bank, 
Helena, Ark; in 1887, president, w'hich posi- 
tion he held until 1903, when he was elected 
to his present position. In religious belief he 
is an Episcopalian ; in politics. Democratic. 
Mr. Sliger was married, March 16, 1886, 
in Helena, Ark., to Miss Margaret E. Car- 
penter. Children : Eugenia B., Margaret E., 
and Frank B. Sliger, Jr. Business address, 
403 Odd Fellows' building; residence ad- 
dress, Helena, Arkansas. 



EDGAR R. ROMBAUER. 

Edgar R. Rombauer. Lawyer. Born 
July 3, 1868, in Belleville, 111. Son of Rod- 
erick E. and Augusta (Korener) Rombauer. 
Educated in the public schools of St. Louis, 
St. Louis high school, and St. Louis Law 
School, graduating in 1887. In 1893 he 
located in St. Louis. After leaving law 
school, at the age of nineteen, entered the 
office of Smith & Pence, Chicago, 111., as a 
student, where he remained until 1889, when 
he went to Washington; returned to Chi- 
cago in 1903 and practiced one year, at expi- 
ration of which time he entered the practice 
in St. Louis, where he has since been located. 
In 1889 he was secretary to Mr. Justice 
Harlan. He is now treasurer of the Law 
Library Association of St. Louis, Missouri. 



On November 16, 1899, at St. Louis, 
Mo., Mr. Rombauer was married to Miss 
Irma Starkloff. Two children have been 
born to this union, Marion (deceased) and 
Julia Rombauer. Business address, 611 Roe 
building; residence address, 1829 Kennett 
Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM AUGUSTUS DALLMEYER. 

William Augustus Dallmeyer, assistant 
cashier of the Exchange Bank of Jefferson 
City, Mo., son of W. Q. and Louise (Lange) 
Dallmeyer, was born December 17, 1865, on 
a farm in Gasconade county. Mo. His par- 
ents removed to Jefferson City three years 
later, where he acquired his early education 
in the public schools of the city, later attend- 
ing the celebrated Kemper School in Boon- 
ville (which was at that time conducted by 
the famous educator, Frederick T. Kemper), 
graduating in the class of 1882, in the acad- 
emic and Latin courses. Following the com- 
pletion of his education he entered, August 
2, 1882, as collector in the bank in which he 
is now assistant cashier. He is now perform- 
ing virtually all the duties of cashier of this 
bank, one of the largest and most prosperous 
banking concerns in Central Missouri. Mr. 
Dallmeyer, in addition to being a stotkholder 
in the bank, of which he is a director, is a 
stockholder and director of the Jefferson City 
Building & Loan Association, is secretary and 
director of the Jefferson City Water Works 
Company, stockholder and treasurer of the 
Park Land & Mining Company, and stock- 
holder, secretary and treasurer of the Jef- 
ferson City Bridge & Transit Company. He 
was for ten years treasurer of Jefferson City. 

Mr. Dallmeyer is a member of the A. F. 



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& A. M., Blue Lodge, Royal Arch Chapter 
and Knights Templar, and of the latter treas- 
urer; an active member of the Brotherhood 
of Elks ; was a member of the Citizens' 
Safety Committee, of which he was treas- 
urer. He was treasurer of the Capital Re- 
moval Committee, one of the original organ- 
izers and a large contributor to the fund, 
and an effective fighter against the removal. 
He is a liberal contributor and an active 
worker in the promotion and advancement 
of every enterprise proposed for the general 
interest of the Capital City. 

Mr. Dallmeyer was united in marriage, 
in October, 1898, to Miss Olive Ewing. Two 
children have blessed this union. His wife 
is an accomplished lady, being gifted with a 
rich and highly cultured voice. Residence 
address, 536 East Main street, Jefiferson City, 
Missouri. 



FRANK P. WALSH. 

Frank P. Walsh. Member of the Kansas 
City Bar. Born in St. Louis in 1864. Son 
of James Walsh, a wdiolesale grain dealer in 
that city. The education of Frank P. was 
acquired in the Christian Brothers Academy 
and in the public night school in St. Louis. 
While a mere lad pursuing his night studies 
he engaged as a messenger for the Western 
Union Telegraph Company. He followed 
this by entering the employ of the St. Louis 
& Cairo Railway Company, now the Mo- 
bile & Ohio Railway Company, at East St. 
Louis, 111., as a clerk, where he developed 
business ability and became an e.xpert sten- 
ographer, and found employment in the law 
office of Lathron & Smith, in Kansas City, 
Mo., in 1886. During his spare hour he 
studied law with that legal firm, and was 



admitted to the bar November i, 1889. He 
at once entered upon the practice as a mem- 
ber of the firm of Douglass & Walsh. This 
partnership was continued until 1892, when 
the firm was dissolved, owing to the appoint- 
ment of Mr. Walsh to the position of assist- 
ant city coucillor, where he served the city 
three terms through successive re-appoint- 
ments. His zeal and ability was recognized 
by the city, and his administration of the 
duties of the office and his remarkable judg- 
ment in managing cases brought for and 
against the city lessened very materially the 
expenses in this particular department than 
during any other like period. Upon retiring 
from the office he became associated with 
Frank F. Rozelle, in the firm of Rozelle & 
Walsh. In 1896 Mr. Walsh was retained 
by the Metropolitan Street Railway Com- 
pany,of Kansas City, Mo., as its trial attor- 
ney. As a trial lawyer he stands foremost 
among the members of his profession in 
Kansas City. His studies have afforded him 
deep knowledge of law and his well disci- 
plined mind is amply equipped for the thor- 
ough exposition of his case, and especially 
through the medium of cross-examinations, 
in which his examinations are thoroughly 
searching, and is logical in all of his legal 
arguments. 

Mr. Walsh is a strong advocate of Dem- 
ocratic doctrine, to which party he has been 
loyal all his life and stands among the most 
influential and highly regarded in the coun- 
cils of his party in the state. He is a forcible 
campaign orator and has taken an active part 
in every campaign for the last twelve years. 
In 1898 he was elected a member of the 
Democratic State Central Committee, and 
re-elected in 1900, and is now a member of 
the executive committee of that body. 

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sas City, Mo., to Miss Katherine M. O'Flar- 
itv, daughter of John O'Flarity, one of the 
pioneer residents of Kansas City. Three 
daughters and two sons have been born to 
tliis union. Business address, 932 New York 
Life building; residence, 2714 Linvvood 
boulevard, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FREDERICK H. BINDER. 

Frederick H. Binder, president of the 
Jefferson City Water Works Company, is 
a native of Hanover, Germany, where he was 
educated and grew to manhood. He fitted 
iiimself for the profession of architecture 
and building. When twenty years old he 
came to the United States with the intention 
to learn the ways and methods of the New 
World, and returned to Germany after five 
years sojourn. He came to Jefferson City 
in 1867, and since that time has resided here. 
He commenced life here as a journeyman 
carpenter, but it was not long before he was 
foreman for his employer, and soon there- 
after entered upon a career as architect and 
builder. The new State University build- 
ing, Columbia ; State Reform School, Boon- 
ville; school, chapel and additions to the 
State Deaf and Dumb and Insane asylums, 
Fulton, Mo. ; State Industrial School for 
Girls, Chillicothe, Mo. ; St. Peter's and Evan- 
gelical Central churches and, with few ex- 
ceptions, all the prominent business and resi- 
dence building erected from 1873 to 1892, 
in Jefferson City, are results of his labor. 
. The United States court house and post office 
building, costing $150,000, was erected 
under his supervision as superintendent of 
construction of the United States treasury 
department. 



Mr. Binder is president of the Jefferson 
City Water Works Company, and the sys- 
tem, one of the best of its kind, was con- 
structed under his supervision. He was one 
of the first to recognize the importance of 
building the bridge, and was untiring in his 
efforts to bring about the consummation of 
that great enterprise. He was at first, and is 
now, president and manager of the Bridge 
& Transit Company. For twenty-five years 
he has been one of our leading men, being 
prominent in all that concerned the welfare 
of this growing and prosperous city. Time 
and again Mr. Binder has been honored by 
his fellow citizens. He is president of the 
Jefferson City Building & Loan Association, 
and a member of the City Board of Educa- 
tion. He was also mayor of the city in 1884. 
He has one son, Fred Binder, Jr. Residence 
address, 210 East Dunklin street, Jefferson 
City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM STANSBURY WOODS. 

William Stansbury Woods. Real estate 
operator. Born July 4, 1855, in Weston, 
Platte county. Mo. Son of Washington T. 
and Nannie E. (Mackinney) Woods. Edu- 
cated in the public schools of Kansas City 
and the McLaughlin Business College. After 
acquiring his education he engaged in the 
coal business. Bookkeeper for Keith & 
Henry, and ten years secretary and treasurer 
of the Keith & Perry Coal Company, now 
Central Coal & Coke Company. From 1878 
to 1889 in the coal business. From 1889 to 
1904, real estate and loans. Now president 
of the Woods, Waller & Holtz Realty Com- 
pany. He has held official position in the 
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1889, secretary and treasurer of the Keith & 
Perry Coal Company; 1890 president of the 
Whipple-Woods Realty Company; in 1900, 
vice-president of the Kansas City Real Es- 
tate Exchange; 1904, president of the 
Woods, Waller & Holtz Realty Company. 

Mr. Woods is a Democrat in politics, and 
in religion a Methodist. He is a member of 
the Commercial Club, of Kansas City, and 
the Knife and Fork Club. On May 11, 
1883, ''■> Kansas City, Mo., he was married 
to Miss Mattie Cary, daughter of Judge 
Lucius Cary. Three children have been born 
to this union : William Clay, Martha E., and 
Lucia C. Woods. Business address, 204-6-8, 
Arlington building, Tenth and Walnut 
streets; residence address, 1231 Garfield 
avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JOHN BARRON. 

t 
John Barron. Contractor. From the 

state of Maryland have come a number of 
the successful business men of St. Louis. 
Among these Mr. John Barron holds a prom- 
inent place as a well-known contractor and 
builder. Through his conscientious care for 
every detail in his work he has won the re- 
spect and esteem of many. He is the son of 
Samuel and Rebecca (Davis) Barron, and 
was born August 12, 1832, in Prince George 
county, Md. In the fall of 1S48 he came to 
St. Louis and, after attending school a few 
years, he chose as his trade bricklaying, and 
by perseverance, became a successful contrac- 
tor. In 1854 lie united with his cousin, W. 
T. Barron, in establishing the business of W. 
T. & J. Barron, bricklayers. Later, in 1898, 
after the death ^ his cousin, he took his son, 
William S.. into partnership with him. 



Mr. Barron was early connected with the 
Central Presbyterian church, of St. Louis, 
and has served as elder in that body for many 
years. He was first married to Miss Mar- 
garet Galbraith, in 1858, then to Miss Ellen 
Garnett, in 1862. He has six children liv- 
ing: Margaret K., Mary T., Alice R., Wil- 
liam S., Josephine G. and Edna J. He re- 
sides at his country home, "Oak Knoll," west 
of Clayton, St. Louis county. Business ad- 
dress, 727 Odd Fellows building, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



HENRY CURTIS WOOD. 

Henry Curtis Wood. Wholesale lumber 
dealer. Born April i, 1850, in Frost Village, 
Province of Ontario, Canada. Son of 
Alonzo and Charlotte (Weston) Wood. His 
eary education was acquired in a pri- 
vate school in Canada under Episcopalian 
auspices. Began his business career with 
Ira Minard & Company, lumber dealers of 
Chicago. He was foreman on the dock on 
the Chicago river for one year. \\'as repre- 
sentative salesman for same firm for several 
years. In 1877 salesman for Palmer, Fuller 
& Company, of Chicago. In 1880 was con- 
nected in business with Bryant. IMarsh & 
W^ood. In 1885 general manager in Kansas 
for the St. John-Marsh Company. In 1893- 
1895 in business (brokerage) for himself 
in Hutchinson, Kans. In 1895 came to 
Kansas City and engaged in the lumber busi- 
ness under his individual name, and has con- 
tinued in the business up to the present time. 

Mr. Wood is a thirty-second degree Ma- 
son. In politics he is a Republican. In relig- 
ious belief an Episcopalian. He was married 
December 18, 1879, at Ouincy, 111., to Miss 
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ton, Ada Lombard, Marshall Chamberlain 
and Henry Curtis. Business address, Keith 
& Perry building; residence address, 324 
Brooklyn avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



HENRY. J. DULLE. 

Henry J. Dulle, president of the G. H. 
Dulle Milling Company, and president of the 
First National Bank, was born in Jef- 
ferson City June 7, 1848. His parents 
were Girard H. and Anna Maria (Haake) 
Dulle, natives of Hanover, Germany. He 
was educated in the public schools and St. 
Peter's parochial school of this city, and in 
his early life engaged in farming, with unus- 
ual success. He continued farming until 
1868, when he and his half brother, J. W. 
Schulle, entered the mill of his father, G. H. 
Dulle, whose death occurred in 1885. When 
the G. H. Dulle Milling Company was organ- 
ized he became president, in which position 
he has continued since. 

Mr. Dulle has been honored by the county 
with a number of important official posititns. 
He is a Republican in politics, and served as 
deputy collector under his father (1884- 
1888), was elected as collector, serving four 
consecutive terms, after which he devoted 
his time and attention to the mill until 1894, 
when he was elected presiding judge of the 
County court, 1894- 1898, during which time 
the magnificent county court house was built, 
and many other improvements were made in 
the county. Mr. Dulle is vice-president and 
stockholder of the J. B. Bruns Shoe Com- 
pany; a stockholder and director in the 
Jefferson City Bridge and Transit Com- 
pany; a stockholder in the Jefferson City 
Brick Company; also of the Jefferson City 



Building & Loan Association, ana a member 
of the Commercial Club. He is an active 
member of St. Peter's church, of which he 
has served as treasurer for many years; a 
member of the Catholic Knights of America, 
and of St. John's Orphan Society, of which 
he is one of the trustees. 

Mr. Dulle was married in 1870 to Miss 
Tracy Peschel. A large family of children 
blessed this union. His comfortable home is 
on his well improved farm in the west sub- 
urbs of the city. Residence address, western 
suburbs, Jeft'erson City, Missouri. 



B. THOMPSON WHIPPLE. 

B. Thompson Whipple. Real estate 
operator. Born July i, 1853, i" Meadville, 
Pa. Son of Andrew J. and H. Jane Carr. 
Possesses a business and common school edu- 
cation. In 1872-1875 he was a bookkeeper 
and assistant superintendent in his father's 
grist, saw and planing mill, Saegertown, Pa. 
He removed to Kansas City, Mo., in 1875, 
from Meadville, Pa. From 1875 to 1878 
was engaged in banking in Kansas City. In 
1878 operated extensively in real estate, 
which business he has continued in up to the 
present time. He was one of the incorpora- 
of the Citizens' National Bank, and ex-mem- 
ber of the Board of Public Works ; appraiser 
of the Real Estate & Stock Exchange, Kan- 
sas City, Mo., and a promoter and platter of 
the addition called Roanoak, and numerous 
other additions of Kansas City. He is a 
member of the Commercial Club, Kansas 
City Country Club, Elm Ridge Club, Kansas 
ity Real Estate Exchange, Merchants' & 
Manufacturers' Association, Merchants' Mu- 
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B. T. Whipple Real Estate Company and 
Redlon Land Company. In religion he is a 
Congregationalist. In politics, a Republican. 
Mr. Whipple was married on January 7, 
1883, at Kansas City, Mo., to Miss Jane 
Gates. Business address, 25 West Tenth 
street, corner of Baltimore; residence ad- 
dress, 518 Garfield avenue, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM B. THAYER. 

William B. Thayer, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Emery, Bird & Thayer Dry 
Goods Company, of Kansas City, Mo., 
is a "product of the dark and bloody 
ground," as Kentucky is often called, and 
was born at Louisville September 11, 1852. 
He was reared in Danville, Ky., and was 
there educated. Later he took the academic 
course at Central College, with high standing 
in his studies. In 1871 he west to Kansas 
City and secured a position in the mercantile 
establishment of Bullene, Moore & Emery, 
and from the beginning showed his aptitude 
for commercial accounts. So well was he 
liked and so thorough was the work per- 
formed by him that he remained with tlie 
firm until 1884, when he was taken into 
the firm, becoming the junior member, the 
firm being known as Bullene, Moore, Emery 
& Company. On November i, 1895, the title 
became known as Emery, Bird & Thayer 
Dry Goods Company, being now one of the 
largest and most important mercantile insti- 
tutions in the west, with sales extending over 
an immense section of the country. Much of 
the success of the concern is due to the sound 
judgment of Mr. Thayer. Aside from his 
gigantic busini^s cares and responsibilities, 
Mr. Thayer has found time to attend to the 



duties of citizenship. He takes much interest 
in education and the progress of Kansas City. 
He served as second vice-president of the 
Commercial club, and was finally elected 
president of the same in 1901-02. He was 
a director and a treasurer of the convention 
hall during the period of its reconstruction. 
Mr. Thayer is a thirty-third degree Ma- 
son, Scottish rite. He has served two terms 
as president of the Kansas City Club. His 
sterling personal and business qualities have 
contributed not a little to the prominence of 
Kansas City as the metropolis of the United 
States west of the Mississippi valley. Resi- 
dence address, 3531 Walnut street, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



LAWRENCE O'BRIEN BRANCH. 

Lawrence O'Brien Branch. Merchant. 
Born in 1863, in Columbia, Tenn. Son of 
Joseph G. and Mary Jones (Polk) Branch. 
Mr. Branch was educated in a private school 
at Trinity, Ala., afterwards finishing his edu- 
cation at the University of Tennessee, at 
Knoxville. He is a descendant from Gen. 
Thomas Polk, signer of the Mecklinberg 
declaration of independence. He is a grand- 
son of Col. William Polk, a revolutionary 
soldier ; nephew of Lieut.-Gen. Leonidas 
Polk ; nephew of Governor Branch, of North 
Carolina, and Gen. Lawrence Branch, killed 
at Sharpsburg; cousin of President James 
K. Polk. He began his business career as 
a traveling salesman, and in 1883 commenced 
with Goodbar, White & Co. The present 
style of the firm is White-Branch-Shelton 
Hat Company, of which firm he is president, 
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changed once or twice during this period. 
Mr. Branch was colonel on the staff of Ex- 
Governor Lon. C. Stephens, of Missouri. 
He is a Democrat in politics, and an Epis- 
copalian in religious belief. Business address, 
1 101-03-05 Washington avenue; resi- 
dence address, 4000 Washington boulevard. 



DR. CHARLES R. WOODSON. 

Dr. Charles R. Woodson, superintendent 
of State Hospital No. 2, is a native of Ken- 
tucky, born in Knox county, May 17, 1848. 
His father, Benjamin J. Woodson, was also 
a Kentuckian, and his mother, whose maiden 
native was Margaret J. Fulkerson, was a 
native of Lee county, Va. In 1855 the 
family came to Lafayette county. Mo., and in 
1856 to Buchanan county. Our subject was 
educated in the public schools of this county, 
and then, having chosen the medical profes- 
sion for his life's work, he entered the Mis- 
souri Medical College at St. Louis, from 
which institution he graduated with honors 
March 6, 1872. Opening an office at Agency 
he met with success and rose to a high place 
in his profession. Shortly before he gradu- 
ated he was married to Miss Julia Taber, 
daughter of Dr. Paul T. Taber, of Albany, 
N. Y., who died in Buchanan county in 1853. 
In 1886 Dr. Woodson moved to St. Joseph, 
where he also built up a large practice, which 
he continued until August 11, 1890, when 
he was appointed to his present position. 
That Dr. Woodson is a man of affairs and 
capable of great undertakings, and a practical 
economist as well, is demonstrated by his 
remarkable record in managing the State 
Hospital, which is one of the largest institu- 
tions of its kind in the United States. His 
fame as a successful physician and humane 



superintendent extends throughout the land, 
and under him State Hospital No. 2 has 
become a model. 

Politically Dr. Woodson is an active 
Democrat and he exercises a marked influ- 
ence in that party. In religion Dr. Woodson 
is afBliated with the Christian church. He is 
a member of various medical societies, and 
finds time to lecture once a week to the 
classes of the Ensworth Medical College on 
diseases of the nervous system. Residence 
address, St. Joseph Medical College, St. Jo- 
seph, Missouri. 



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EDMOND J. ECKEL. 

Edmond J. Eckel, senior member of the 
firm of Eckel & Mann, is one of the best 
known architects in the west, throughout 
which he has many public buildings, school 
houses, churches, business blocks and resi- 
dences standing as evidence of his genius. 
He has made his home in St. Joseph, Mo., 
since 1869. Mr. Eckel is a son of Philip 
Jacob and Caroline Louise ( Schweighaeu- 
ser) Eckel, and was born in Strasburg, Al- 
sace, France, June 22, 1845. 

Edmond J. Eckel received a good educa- 
tion in his mother tongue, and w'as fourteen 
years of age when he began the study of 
architecture with a relative, preparatory to 
entering the school of fine arts in Paris. He 
later went to that famous center of art and 
was a student at L'Ecole des Beaux Arts, 
the best institution of its kind in the world, 
and there pursued his studies diligently for 
four and a half years. Soon after his grad- 
uation he concluded to try his fortune in 
America, and in September, 1868, left 
Havre, France, on the steamer "Ville de 
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proceeded west to Cleveland, Ohio, where 
for eight months he worked as a draughts- 
man, then went still farther west to Omaha, 
Neb. He started for Kansas City on busi- 
ness, and while en route, on July 3, 1869, 
was obliged to stop over Sunday in St. 
Joseph because of a railroad accident. It 
proved one of those little incidents which 
change the course of one's life. He obtained 
employment in his profession, becoming a 
draughtsman for Steigers & Boettner, with 
whom he continued for nearly three years. 
In 1872 he was made a partner in the firm, 
the senior member retiring, and the firm 
name became Boettner & Eckel. It remained 
as such until 1880, then became Eckel & 
Mann. He continued in partnership with 
Mr. Mann until the latter went to St. Louis, 
in 1891, to superintend the construction of 
work there. Our subject continued in busi- 
ness alone until 1899, when he and Mr. 
Mann again became associated. Mr. Eckel 
has been architect for the St. Joseph School 
Board since 1896, and since the year 1880 
he has drafted and has been the architect for 
the principal wholesale houses, public build- 
ings and residences at St. Joseph, among 
them being: The St. Joseph Union station, 
St. Joseph High School building, St. Joseph 
Live Stock Exchange building (South St. 
Joseph), First Baptist church. Elks' Club, 
Free Public Library building, Carnegie 
Branch Library, and the Commercial block ; 
the buildings for the Tootle, Wheeler & Mot- 
ter Mercantile Company, C. D. Smith Drug 
Company, Nave-McCord Mercantile Com- 
pany, Hirsch Brothers' Dry Goods Co., 
Richardson-Roberts Dry Goods Company, 
and R. L. jMcDonald & Co. ; German-Ameri- 
can Bank building, the State Hospital for In- 
sane No. 2, St. Joseph Gas Company's build- 
ing, Logan block, Tootle-Lemon National 



Bank building, Transit House (South i 
Joseph) , and numerous others. Messrs. Eel 
& Mann were the architects for many pub 
and private buildings throughout the we 
among these being court houses at Cou 
cil Bluffs, Maryville, Maysville, Rockportai 
Albany, Mo., and buildings at Quincy, L 
Fort Worth, Texas, Pueblo, Col., Union si 
tion at Hannibal, Mo., and the Paxton Ho 
at Omaha, Neb. In 1900 they drew plans f 
the new city hall at St. Louis, winning pr< 
erence over thirty-seven competitors. 

In 1875 Mr. Eckel was united in ms 
riage with Minnie L. Schroers, a daught 
of George D. Schroers, a manufacturer 
St. Joseph. Four children were born 
them. Mr. Eckel is a man of pleasing pt 
sonality, and has many friends wherev 
known. Business address, 24-28 Safe a] 
Deposit building, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



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THEODORE WTNNINGHAM. 

Theodore Winningham. Real estate ai 
loans. Born July 16, 1850, in the state 
Mississippi, his parents being Dr. N. ai 
Mary (Bell) Winningham. His father w 
a descendant of Dr. Wintringham, who 
tomb is in Westminster Abbey, Londo 
England, who had been phj^sician to Kii 
George III. Theodore W. graduated wi 
the class of 1873 at Trinity College, Nor 
Carolina, and class of 1876, of Micl 
gan University, receiving degrees of A. . 
and LL. B. After leaving Ann Arbor La 
School he practiced law in Kansas City, M( 
from 1876 to 1888, being quite successf 
in his chosen profession. In the latter ye; 
ill health compelled him to cease the practi' 
of law, and he entered the real estate at 





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loan business, of which he made quite a 
success and he has acquired a large amount of 
Kansas City and Chicago real estate. He 
was married April 14, 1884, to Emma Burns, 
of St. Joseph, Mo., and they have one daugh- 
ter, Miss Louise Winningham. Business ad- 
dress, 315 American Bank building; resi- 
dence address, northeast corner of Twenty- 
fifth and Harrison, Kansas City, Missouri. 



HON. WILLIAM K. JAMES. 

Hon. William K. James, formerly judge 
of Circuit Court No. 2, of Buchanan county, 
is one of the most eminent lawyers of the 
city of St. Joseph, Mo., where he has resided 
for many years. 

Judge James was born August 20, 1852, 
in Sussex county, Dela., and is a son of 
Urias T. and Eliza J. (Knowles) James. 
When fourteen years of age our subject ac- 
companied his parents to the vicinity of 
Barry, in Pike county, 111., where they re- 
mained three years, and then moved to Fre- 
mont county, Iowa, locating in the vicinity 
of the town of Hamburg. He spent his early 
life upon the farm, and attended the country 
and village schools. At the age of eighteen 
years he taught a winter school, and walked 
the distance of three miles to and from his 
home each day, and the following spring 
attended Central College, of Fayette, Mo. 
He then taught school one year in East Ne- 
braska City, Iowa, in his home county of 
Fremont, and in 1872 again attended Cen- 
tral College. He next entered Yale College 
and completed the regular classical course, 
Ijeing graduated with the class of 1878. 
Sinse August, 1878, he has been located in 
St. Joseph, Mo. Under the preceptorship of 



Ex-Governor Willard P. Hall he studied 
law, and was admitted to the legal profession. 
By strict application to his work, and with 
conscientious regard for the interests of his 
clients, he has won his way to the front rank 
among the lawyers of this section of the 
state. In 1898 he was the Democratic nomi- 
nee for circuit judge, and in the election 
which followed not only gained the office, 
but lead the party ticket by over eight hun- 
dred votes. Since the expiration of his term 
in office he became associated with W. B. 
Norris, under the firm name of James & 
Norris, and has devoted his attention to the 
practice of his profession, the firm maintain- 
ing fine offices in the Tootle-Lemon National 
Bank building, at Sixth and Francis streets. 

In 1883 Judge James was united in mar- 
riage with Mary A. Tootle, a daughter of 
Thomas and Ellen (Bell) Tootle, and they 
have two children, namely : Nellie Tootle 
James, who was born in 1884; and Thomas 
Tootle James, born in 1888. At the age of 
fourteen Judge James united with the 
church, and since coming to St. Joseph has 
been a member, and for years an elder, of 
the First Presbyterian church. He has been 
one of the most influential members of this 
church, a consistent, earnest Christian, and 
at times his knowledge of ecclesiastical law 
and sound advice has been of the utmost 
value to the church and synod. He is a past 
grand of Invincible Lodge, I. O. O. F., and 
is also a member of Pocahontas Tribe., I. 
O. R. M. 

In politics Judge James is a Democrat, 
and has actively participated in all cam- 
paigns, especially that of 1896, when he 
stumped the northwestern part of the state. 
He is an exceedingly popular man and, 
through great strength of cliaracter, has 
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souri. He is an earnest and fluent speaker, 
and convincing in his arguments. He never 
fails to favorably impress his audiences, and 
invariably has the undivided attention of all 
who chance to hear him. His persuasive 
power over a jury is quite exceptional. He 
is a man of strong personality and possesses 
in a marked degree the qualities of a leader. 
He is suave and self-contained in manner, 
and in all his undertakings exhibits the ster- 
ling qualities that mark the indefatigable and 
successful worker. Clear headed and pos- 
sessing the courage of his convictions, he 
follows the path he believes to be right, know- 
ing no fear and regardless of favor. Busi- 
ness address, Tootle-Lemon Bank building, 
St. Joseph, Missouri. 



Politically Mr. Toll is a Mugwump. He 
was married to Miss Mary Lee, of St. Joseph 
county, Alich. One child has been born, 
Philip R., now connected with his father's 
extensive business interests in Kansas City. 
Office, Postal Telegraph building, Kansas 
City; residence, Thirty-sixth street, south- 
west corner Warwick boulevard. 



ALFRED TOLL. 



Alfred Toll, lumberman, president of the 
Badger Lumber Company, of Kansas City. 
Born at Schenectady, N. Y. Son of Philip 
R. and Nancy (DeGraff) Toll. Received an 
academical education, supplemented with a 
thorough commercial course. Began his 
career in the mercantile business and in mill- 
ing. Engaged in the lumber business at 
Hannibal, ^lo., in i866, as a member of the 
firm of Rowe & Toll. Li 1870 the firm was 
incorporated under the laws of Wisconsin 
as the Badger State Lumber Company, con- 
tinuing in business at Hannibal, Mo., with 
Mr. Toll as manager until 1886, when its 
affairs were liquidated and the Badger Lum- 
ber Company was organized under the laws 
of Missouri, and removal was made to Kan- 
sas City. Mr. Toll was then elected presi- 
dent and general manager of the company, 
which position he now occupies. 



WILL A. ROTHWELL. 

Will A. Rothwell, of Moberly, Uo., a 
prominent and successful attorney, was born 
in Callaway county. Mo., January- 4, 1863, 
son of Dr. William A. and Sallie C. Roth- 
well of Virginia and Kentucky lineage. Hi; 
father came to Missouri in 1850, from Ken- 
tucky, and for more than forty years was on< 
of the leading physicians of his section o! 
the state, departing this life at IMoberly, Mo. 
November 30, 1895. 

Will A. Rothwell received his early edu 

cation in the public schools of Moberly, grad 

uating from the high school of that place ii 

June, 1880, as valedictorian of his class. Hi 

then taught for two years in the Moberl; 

high school, after which he entered the ]Mis 

souri State University, at Columbia, an( 

there was graduated, with class honors, ii 

the class of 1885. During his senior yea 

in the university he began the study of law 

and after his graduation entered the la\ 

office of Hon. G. F. Rothwell, a distinguishe 

lawyer and member of Congress, and a 

uncle of the subject of this sketch, and wa 

admitted to the bar in 1886. Since then Mi 

Rothwell has been one of the active an 

progressive attorneys of Missouri, and ha 

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known and occupying an enviable position 
in both his professional and personal rela- 
tions. In January, 1889, he was appointed 
secretary of the commission that revised the 
statutes of Missouri in that year. He was 
elected city attorney of Moberly in April, 
1 89 1, and re-elected to that position in 1893 ; 
and during his term of office was the prime 
mover in the agitation for a new code of 
state laws for the government of the middle 
class cities of his state, and was the author of 
the resulting statutes adopted by two general 
conventions of such cities and passed by the 
State Legislatures of 1893 and 1895. In 
November, 1894, Mr. Rothwell was elected 
a member of the Missouri Legislature and 
represented Randolph county in the general 
session of 1895, and also in a later special 
session convened by the governor. He de- 
clined re-election to the Legislature in 1896, 
but in this year was elected prosecuting attor- 
ney of Randolph county, and in this import- 
ant office gave such satisfaction that a pleased 
constituency honored him with another term, 
to which he was elected in 1898. He was 
appointed by the governor, in 1895, as a 
member of the board of managers of the 
State Training School for Boys,, at Boon- 
ville, and served two years in that capacity. 
In June, 1900, he was named by the Demo- 
cratic State convention, which met at Kan- 
sas City, as one of the two presidential elec- 
tors at large for his state, but declined to 
serve. He has always affiliated w-ith the 
Democratic party in politics, and has long 
occupied an important place in the affairs of 
the party in Missouri. At the Democratic 
State convention held at St. Joseph in July, 
1902, he was elected chairman of the state 
committee, and in that capacity managed the 
campaign of 1902 witli such ability and fidel- 
ity that his party was successful along all 



lines by largely increased majorities, by 
which he became widely known over his own 
state, and other states, as a politician of high 
character and fine abilities. At the Demo- 
cratic State convention held at Joplin in 
June, 1904, he was elected as successor to 
United States Senator William J. Stone as 
the Missouri member of the Democratic Na- 
tional Committee, which position he now 
holds. 

Mr. Rothwell is closely identified with a 
number of the best business interests in his 
home city, and is regarded as a progressive 
and energetic citizen. He is a Commandery 
Mason, a Shriner, and a member of a num- 
ber of other fraternal societies. Business 
and residence address, Moberly, Missouri. 



GEORGE ROBERTSON. 

George Robertson. Lawyer. Born June 
21, 1852, in Mahaska county, Iowa. Son 
of James R. and Margaret (Berkley) Rob- 
ertson. His paternal great-grandfather, 
Joseph Robertson, w-as a Revolutionary sol- 
dier and participated in the battle of Kings 
Mountain, Cowpens and Guilford C. H. 
His grandfather, George Robertson, was in 
the War of 1812, Captain Regester's Com- 
pany, Tennessee Volunteers. 

George R. Robertson was educated in 
the public schools. Woods' Academy, Mo- 
berly, and Kirksville Normal School. He 
studied law while teaching school ; student 
one year with Judge W. O. Forrest, of 
Mexico, Mo., and admitted to the bar Oc- 
tober, 1876, and has practiced his pro- 
fession successfully ever since. ' He is a direc- 
tor in and counsel for the North Missouri 
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attorney for the Wabasli Railroad Company. 
He is a Royal Arch Mason, Knight 
Templar, Shriner, member Muloch Temple, 
St. Louis, and the Elks. Is resident lect- 
urer in the law department of the State Uni- 
versity, Columbia, Mo. President of the 
Missouri Bar Association, 1897-98. In 1902 
was assistant organizer of the North Mis- 
souri Trust Company. Was city attorney of 
Mexico, Mo., from 1877 to 1881; public 
administrator of Audamn county, 1880-84; 
prosecuting attorney in 1885, appointed by 
Governor Marmaduke. Member of the 
school board of Mexico, 1890- 1897. 

Mr. Robertson is a Christian in religious 
belief, in politics is a Democrat. He was 
married September 3, 1879, in Mexico, Mo., 
to Miss Laura Hiner. Children: Madge, 
who died May 10, 1905; David H.; George 
T. ; Laura and James Graham. Business and 
residence address. Mexico. Missouri. 



and lucrative practice. Business address 
suite 600, Carleton building; residence ad 
dress, Monticello Hotel, St. Louis, Missour 



JOHN H. BOOGHER. 

John H. Boogher. Lawyer. Born in 
1867 in St. Louis, Mo. Son of Simon L. 
and Sophie (Hogan) Boogher, the mother 
a daughter of Hon. John Hogan. He was 
graduated in the St. Louis high school in 
1885 ; in 1888 in the University of Virginia ; 
1890 in the St. Louis Law School. The de- 
grees conferred upon him were B. Ph. and 
LL. B. In religious belief he is a Methodist, 
and a Democrat in politics. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1890, and has since that 
time been engaged in the practice of his pro- 
fession. 

Mr. Boogher is a prominent member of 
the St. Louis^ar, and known as a careful, 
painstaking lawyer, and has built up a large 



KENDALL BROOKS RANDOLPH. 

Kendall Brooks Randolph, a prominen 
and highly successful attorney of St. Joseph 
Mo., was born October 10, 1859, at Atlanta 
Logan county, 111., and is a son of Rev 
Moses M. and Josephine AI. (Mounier 
Randolph. 

Kendall B. Randolph may well be calle( 
a self-made man, having worked his wa; 
with zeal and unflagging energy througl 
many difficulties to his present promisins 
position in life. He was educated at Normal 
111. Having decided upon the legal profes 
sion, he made use of every opportunity to be 
come master of its many knotty points, an( 
to this end engaged in teaching school ii 
DeKalb and Davies counties. Mo., at tin 
same time spending his leisure time in th( 
study of Blackstone's "Commentaries" anc 
other text-books. He then entered the lav 
office of T. W. Collins, under whose precep 
torship he studied for six months at St 
Joseph, and in October, 1882, two years aftei 
he first took up the study, he was admittec 
to the bar at Maysville. Two years later h( 
was elected prosecuting attorney of DeKalt 
county, and served two years. In 1888 1m 
opened a law office in St. Joseph, and for 3 
number of years was a member of the firrr 
of Reed, James & Randolph, with offices on 
Francis street, but later he moved to his com- 
modious quarters in the German-American 
Bank building. He engages in general prac- 
tice in the State and Federal courts and is a 
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Supreme court. He has been quite success- 
ful, having a large and desirable clientage. 
In 1901 he was appointed city counselor of 
St. Joseph by Mayor John Combe, and 
served with credit in that capacity for two 
years, retiring in April, 1903. In 1896 he 
was the Republican nominee for circuit judge 
against Thomas H. Parrish, and ran largely 
ahead of his ticket, and again, in 1898, 
against A. M. Woodson, also running ahead 
of his ticket. 

Mr. Randolph was married May 3, 1885, 
to Addie Weatherby, daughter of Dr. L. H. 
Weatherby, of Maysville. Mr. Randolph is 
a Mason, being a member of St. Joseph Com- 
mandery, K. T., and Moila Temple, A. A. 
O. N. M. S., and is also a Modern Woodman 
of America. His wife is a Daughter of Isis, 
an auxiliary organization to the Mystic 
Shrine. Business address, German-Ameri- 
can Bank building, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



Sydney, Carl and Lester. Business address, 
813 Washington avenue; residence address, 
4004 Cook avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MAX HECHT. 



Max Hecht. Wholesale clothing mer- 
chant. Born February 6, 1854, in Germany. 
Son of Simon and Henrietta (David) Hecht. 
Educated in the public schools of Germany. 
He is a member of the firm of Hecht Bros. 
Co., composed of Max and Herman Hecht, 
and established in 1899. In the beginning 
of his mercantile career he clerked in 
Coblentz, Germany, and started in business 
in 1874 in Paducah, Ky., and from there 
removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he became 
interested in the above named firm. 

Mr. Hecht is a member of the Columbia 
Club, Jewish in religious belief, and a Re- 
publican. Was married in 1888, in Louis- 
ville, Ky., to Miss Rosa Harris. Children : 



LAWRENCE MONROE JONES. 

Lawrence Monroe Jones. Among the 
great department stores of the west is that 
of the Jones Dry Goods Company of Kansas 
City, Mo., of which the subject of this sketch 
is president. He was born in Franklin 
county. 111., December 28, 1856. Educated, 
first at the public schools, and later was grad- 
uated with distinction from Hamilton Col- 
lege. He afterward taught school several 
terms, but in 1879 began merchandising at 
Parrish, 111., in partnership with his brother 
Logan. Their first stock of merchandise 
amounted to three hundred and sixty-eight 
dollars. Their business during the second 
year amounted to thirty thousand dollars. 
They were now ready for a larger field of 
operations and, accordingly, purchased the 
largest store in the county seat, Benton. 
The brothers had always desired to take 
Horace Greeley's advice and "go west," and 
in 1886 they moved from Illinois to Stafford, 
Kans., engaging in the mercantile business 
there. They soon built up the largest busi- 
ness in that part of the country and by 1890 
had outgrown the location and removed to 
Kansas City, Kans., where they established 
a department store. By close application to 
business they built up the largest merchandise 
establishment in the state of Kansas — in fact 
again ovTtgrowing their surroundings. In 
September, 1895, *^'^^y nioved to Kansas 
City, Mo., and opened a large department 
store at the corner of Sixth and Main streets. 
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ing one building after another they had, by 
1899, o"^ of t'^^ largest department stores in 
the city. In November, 1899, their entire 
stock of merchandise was destroyed by fire, 
but nothing daunted, while the fire was still 
burning, they contracted for buildings near 
Tw-elfth, on Main street, from Twelfth to 
Thirteenth streets, and now have the largest 
department store in the United States west 
of Chicago. Mr. Jones takes great interest 
in all movements for the improvement of 
Kansas City. Business address, Jones' De- 
partment Store block, Kansas City, Missouri. 



cember 9, 1890, in Cowgill, Mo., to Aliss 
Leah Cowgill. Children : Elliott and Leah 
Spratt. Business address, 415 Francis street, 
St. Joseph, Mo. ; residence address, Twenty- 
fifth and Pacific streets. 



WILLL\M ERNEST SPRATT. 

William Ernest Spratt, mayor of St. 
Joseph, Mo., was born April 9, 1867, in 
Lexington, Mo., a son of John Fulkerson 
and Martha J. (Elliott) Spratt. Educated 
in the Hamilton, Mo., high school, and St. 
James' Military School at Macon, Mo. 
His grandfather. Major William Harrison 
Spratt, was on the staff of General Vaughan, 
of the Union army. Mr. Spratt began his 
career as a clerk in a general merchandise 
store, then engaged in the live stock business, 
then in the real estate and loan business. He 
is now a member of the firm of John F. 
Tyler & Company, composed of John F. 
Tyler and William E. Spratt, established in 
1867, operating largely in the real estate and 
loan business. 

Mr. Spratt is a Democrat and active in 
the interests of his party. He was elected 
mayor of St. Joseph, Mo., April, 1904, his 
official term expiring April, 1906. He is a 
member of the I. O. O. F., Elks, Monroe 
Club, and worships at the First Baptist 
church of St. Joseph. He was married De- 



WALTER G. MELLIER. 

Walter G. Mellier, vice-president of the 
Mellier-Duncan Realty Company, who has 
been prominently identified with the real 
estate and financial interests of Kansas City 
since 1879, was born in St. Louis, Mo. His 
father was A. A. Mellier, a wholesale drug- 
gist of St. Louis, and one of that city's 
earliest and most active business men. The 
house of which he was the head was estab- 
lished in the early 40's, and a pioneer history 
of the commercial affairs of St. Louis would 
be incomplete without reference to the well 
known establishment. The Mellier family 
was one of the most prominent in the city 
and the members have attained positions of 
influence in the material affairs of the state. 

Walter G. Mellier was a graduate of 
Princeton University. During the early days 
of his career he was connected with his 
father's wholesale drug house. In 1879 he 
removed to Kansas City, afterwards inter- 
esting himself in the cattle industry and 
carrying it on successfully for a few years. 
He was a large stockholder in the Traders' 
Bank until he embarked in the real estate 
business. The following additions to the res- 
idence part of Kansas City have been laid 
out by Mr. Mellier and his associates : Llew- 
ellyn Park in 1886, 137 acres; Mellier Place, 
1887, 66 acres; Kenwood Addition, 1887. 
660 acres: Murray Hill, 1886, 10 acres: 
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Place Annex, 1889, 22 J/^ acres; Bonfil's 
Height, 10 acres; Bonfil's Place, 1897, 10 
acres; Mellier's Park, 1900, 10 acres. These 
additions are marked by many handsome 
homes, and nearly all of them are in the 
southern suburbs of Kansas City, and the 
city has already reached out to them. Of 
late years Mr. Mellier has paid especial atten- 
tion to the promotion of warehouse building 
in the wholesale district of the city. He 
projected the building of the electric street 
car line from the junction of Thirty-third 
and Main streets, Mellier Place, now a part 
of the Metropolitan Street Railway system. 
Mr. Mellier has been prominent in banking 
and business circles for many years. Resi- 
dence address, Fairfax Arms, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



HENRY L. McCUNE. 

Henry L. McCune. Member qf the Kan- 
sas City Bar. Born June 28, 1862, in Ipava, 
Fulton county. 111. Son of Hon. Joseph L. 
and Martha E. (Quillin) McCune, father a 
native of Ohio and of Scotch-Irish extrac- 
tion, his mother a native of West Virginia, 
both descended from worthy and honorable 
families. The mother traces her family, 
which is related to the noted Woodhull and 
Hedges families of England, back in an un- 
broken line to the time of the Norman con- 
quest in 1066. 

Henry L. McCune was the eldest of a 
family of seven children. He was reared in 
the town of Ipava and there obtained his 
common school education. At the age of 
fifteen he was sent to the Illinois College at 
Jacksonville,, where he remained two years. 
Is 1879 lie entered the University of Illinois 
at Champaign, graduating in the class of 



1883. He read law with Morrison & Whit- 
lock, at Jacksonville, and the study was sup- 
plemented by a thorough course at the Co- 
lumbia Law School in New York City, where 
he entered in 1884 and graduated in 1886. 
In 1886 he came west and located at Oswego, 
Kans., when he became the junior member 
of the firm of Perkins, Morrison & McCune. 
The senior member of the firm represented 
Kansas in the United States Senate. There 
Mr. McCune was twice appointed city attor- 
ney of the town. In 1890 he removed to 
Kansas City, and has since resided there. 
In 1 89 1 he entered into partnership with 
Charles L. Dobson and Herbert L. Doggett, 
and the firm was known as Dobson, McCuue 
& Doggett up to Judge Dobson's appoint- 
ment to the Circuit court bench in Jackson 
county. In June, 1897, Judge Dobson I'e- 
signed from the bench and returned to prac- 
tice with Mr. McCune, under the firm name 
of Dobson & McCune, which lasted until 
Judge Dobson's death in August, 1902. 

In politics Mr. McCune is a Republican. 
Mr. McCune holds a commission as captain 
in the Illinois State Guards. He is a mem- 
ber of the Sigma Chi fraternity, of the Kan- 
sas City Commercial Club, and a member of 
the Congregational church. In December, 
1895, he was elected president of the Kansas 
City Bar x\ssociation. Mr. McCune has 
edited and published the fourth edition of 
Judge McCrary's well known work on the 
"Law of Elections." Mr. McCune was 
president of the Kansas Civic League from 
its foundation until the fall of 1904, when 
he was elected judge of the Circuit court of 
Jackson county, which position he now holds. 
He is one of the first Circuit judges ever 
elected by the Republicans in Jackson county. 
On September 6, 1888, Mr. McCune was 
married to Miss Helen A. McCrary, daugh- 



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ter of United States Circuit Judge George 
W. McCrary. Mr. and Mrs. McCune have 
two children: Joseph, born May 27, 1891, 
and Helen Elizabeth, born May 9, 1902. 
Business address 609 New York Life build- 
ing, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FRED. J. HERZOG. 

Fred J. Herzog, treasurer of the Herzog 
Bros.' Dry Goods Company, was born in 1873 
in Memphis, Tenn. Son of Herman and Isa- 
bella (Cullman) Herzog. Educated in the 
public schools of St. Louis. Entered L. 
Herzog & Bros.' Dry Goods Company in the 
year 1898, and previous to entering this 
company was in the leaf tobacco business in 
New York City. He came to St. Louis, Mo., 
in 1884, since which time he has been promi- 
nent in the mercantile circles. He is a mem- 
ber of the Ethical Society, and in politics he 
is a Republican. Business address, 910-912 
Washington avenue ; residence address, 4248 
West Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HIRAM LLOYD. 



Hiram Lloyd is president of the St. 
Louis Master Builders' Exchange. He 
has been a resident of this city since 
his boyhood days, coming here in his 
sixteenth year from St. Clair county, 
III, where he was born on the 27th 
day of July, 1863. His first employment 
was in a carpenter shop where, by close atten- 
tion to the tasks set for him, he mastered the 
rudiments of tne profession of which he is 
now the master. Through his rapid advance- 



ment from one position to another farther up 
the ladder of success, he carefully mastered 
every detail so that at the present day there 
is no part of the industry in which he is not 
capable of doing a journeyman's work. This 
has been of great advantage to him in his 
career and has been an important factor in 
the advancement of his interests. His in- 
terest in his employes also plays a part in his 
everyday life, and those who are fortunate 
enough to be working for him say that he is 
always just and willing to meet any discus- 
sion half way. 

At the age of twenty-eight Mr. Lloyd 
decided to start in the building business for 
himself and has proven that he was fully 
capable of it by the large business that he has 
gained. To a complete knowledge of his 
profession he adds energy, ability, a progres- 
sive spirit and an indomitable w'ill making 
success a foregone conclusion. His very first 
venture was a success, and his subsequent 
achievements have showed a steady gain in 
material benefit accrued by all business men. 
commonly called money. 

He has erected a number of fine resi- 
dences ranging in price from $12,000 to 
$25,000. Mr. Lloyd also erected the Odd 
Fellows' Home, located at Liberty, Mo., 
costing $65,000. His work in the city has 
fully demonstrated his ability to carry any 
contract to completion, and the results ob- 
tained have always been most complimentary 
to him and ornaments to the city as a whole. 
His success, when considering the obstacles 
that had to be overcome, has astonished and 
been a matter of sincere admiration to his 
friends, and none who know how hard he has 
worked in the last fifteen years envy him his 
present position at the top of the ladder. 

Mr. Lloyd is a thorough American in the 
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much interest in the workings of tlie govern- 
ino- bodies, both national and local, and sev- 
eral times his friends have persuaded him to 
take an active part in the political game in 
state and municipal affairs. In 1894 he ac- 
cepted the Republican nomination for the 
State Senate in the then Thirty-second dis- 
trict, but it was one of the strongest Demo- 
cratic districts in the state and he was de- 
feated. In 1895 he was elected to the House 
of Delegates in the Municipal Assembly, and 
in 1897, after re-election, was chosen speaker. 
In that position his work is a matter of the 
history of the city and needs no comments, 
sufficient to say that he did not lose the re- 
spect of those who had known him before, 
and gained new friends and admirers by the 
score. During two years of his service for 
the city he was on the city hall commission, 
and in view of his recognized ability in all 
construction lines most of the work at that 
time devolved upon him. It is a well known 
fact that his knowledge of the conditions and 
his conscientious efforts was the means of the 
city saving a large sum of money on the cost 
of construction. His record as a public offi- 
cial compares very favorably with his busi- 
ness record, and no member of the assembly 
retired with more honor than Mr. Lloyd. His 
career has ever been marked by strict integ- 
rity and honesty and close application to the 
business needing attention, whether serving 
the people in the legislative body or in his 
own business affairs. He has always been 
interested in politics and still gives much of 
his time to the welfare of the Republican 
party. 

Mr. Lloyd is a prominent member of 
the }iIasonic fraternity. He has been presi- 
dent of the St. Louis Master Builders' 
Exchange, and has long been identified with 
the best interests of that organization. Mr. 



Lloyd's business offices are located on the 
eighth floor of the Odd Fellows' building. 
Ninth and Olive streets. Business address, 
318, Odd Fellows' building; residence ad- 
dress, 3915 Washington boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



HERMAN HERZOG. 

Herman Herzog, secretary of the L. 
Herzog & Bros. Dry Goods Company, was 
born in 1838 in Herxheim, Germany. He 
is a member of the firm of L. Herzog & 
Bros.' Dry Goods Company, incorporated in 
1890, and composed of L. Herzog, president, 
New York City ; H. Herzog, secretary, St. 
Louis, and Fred. J. Herzog, treasurer. Was 
an organizer of the original firm of L. Her- 
zog & Bros., afterwards known as L. Herzog 
Bros.' Dry Goods Company. 

Mr. Herzog was married on January 18, 
1870, in New York City, to Miss Isabella 
Cullman. Children : Lottie Weiner and 
Fred J. Herzog. Business address, 910-912 
Washington avenue ; residence address, 4248 
West Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DOUGLAS BURNETT. 

Douglas Burnett. Corporation attorney. 
Born April 22, 1876, in Louisville, Ky. Son 
of Thomas P. and Sophia (O'Toole) Bur- 
nett. Mr. Burnett derived his early educa- 
tion in the state of Kentucky, the place of 
his nativity, and at the University of Michi- 
gan, in which he graduated in the law de- 
partment. Previous to his coming to Kansas 
City he practiced his profession, and exten- 



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sively operated in the oil business in the state 
of California. He has devoted much of his 
time to that special branch of the practice 
and is known as an able corporation lawyer. 
In 1902 he came to Kansas City, engaging in 
the practice of law, which he has continued 
in ever since. He is now counsel for the 
Associated Oil Company, Union Pipe Line 
Company, Central Oil & Gas Company, 
Western Natural Gas Company, and various 
other prominent companies. 

In politics Mr. Burnett is a Democrat, and 
in religious belief a Roman Catholic. Busi- 
ness address, 303 Fidelity Trust Company 
building; residence address, Midland Hotel, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



C. E. STRIFLER. 



C. E. Strifler, lumberman, was born in 
Caro, Mich., December 15, 1867, his parents 
shortly after moving to Atchison, Kans., re- 
moving from there to St. Louis when he was 
seven years of age, where he entered the 
public schools, and at the age of fifteen he 
took a business course in Bryant & Stratton 
College, after which he entered the employ 
of the lumber firm of Smith & Jamison, with 
whom he remained, however, but a short 
time, leaving there to enter the employ of the 
H. Gaus & Son Manufacturing Company, 
one of the principal sash, door, blind and 
packing box concerns in this city, and re- 
mained with them for about two and a half 
years, at which time their entire plant was 
destroyel by fire. His father having engaged 
in the lumber commission business a few 
years prior to this, offered him a position 
with him as bocStkeeper and salesman, and he 
remained with him for- about two years, when 



he embarked in the lumber commission busi- 
ness on his own account. On August i, 
1 89 1, he formed a partnership with F. J. 
Wehinger, under the firm name of Strifler 
& Wehinger, for the purpose of doing a 
general lumber business. They established a 
yard at Main and Chambers streets, and re- 
moved from there about six years later to 
Main and North Market streets, where the 
present business is located. On April 21, 
1899, D. O. Strifler was admitted into the 
partnetship, after which it w-as conducted as 
Strifler & Wehinger Lumber Company, but 
was not incorporated. On July 9, 1901, thf 
former partners bought out the interest of 
D. O. Strifler, and the business was con- 
ducted thereafter under the same style until 
January i, 1902, when C. E. Strifler bought 
out the interest of F. J. Wehinger, and con- 
ducted the same under his individual name 
until December 31, 1902, when the business 
was incorporated as the C. E. Strifler Lum- 
ber Company, under the laws of Missouri, 
with the following officers : C. E. Strifler, 
president and treasurer; Louis Krug, vice- 
president, and J. A. Braun, secretary, the 
latter gentleman having been associated with 
C. E. Strifler as an employe for a number of 
years. The company does a general whole- 
sale business, with offices and yards in this 
city, and also operates several sawmills in 
southern state, where they manufacture prin- 
cipally Cottonwood lumber, the largest of 
which is located at South Bend, Ark., on the 
Arkansas river, this being a modern mill in 
every respect. They make a specialty of 
Cottonwood, but also manufacture consider- 
able oak, ash and cypress. At their St. Louis 
yards they carry an assortment of hard- 
woods, consisting of about 2,000,000 feet of 
dry stock, from which they can make imme- 
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have from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 feet of 
shipping" dry stock at various points in the 
south. Thus they are able to replenish their 
St. Louis stock and make direct shipments 
in filHng large orders or contracts for future 
delivery. Business address. Main street, 
northeast corner of North Market ; residence 
address, 5168 Maple street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES R. HETTEL. 

Charles R. Hettel. Wholesale jeweler. 
Born February 4, 1855, in St. Louis, Mo. 
Son of August Hettel (deceased), and Au- 
gusta (Metten) Hettel. He was educated 
in the St. Louis public schools. The firm of 
C. R. Hettel Jewelry Company was incor- 
porated in 1889, ^^'^ Charles R. Hettel is 
the president. Previous to his engaging in 
this business he was secretary of the Provi- 
dence Jewelry Company for twelve years, 
and since 1889 he has successfully conducted 
this business up to the present time. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. 

Mr. Hettel was married in June, 1892, in 
St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Martha Freymark. 
Business address, 710 Washington avenue; 
residence address, 2722-A Geyer avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JACOB GEIGER, M. D. 

Jacob Geiger, M. D., a physician and sur- 
geon of St. Joseph, Mo., is one of the fore- 
most surgeons in the west, and at the present 
time confines his practice strictly to that 
branch of his profession. 

Dr. Geiger was born in Wurtemberg, 
Germany, July 25, 1848, and is a son of 



Anton and Marie G. (Eberhart) Geiger, his 
father being a real estate dealer, and his 
mother the daughter of a miller. He came 
with his mother to America in a sailing ves- 
sel, in 1856, locating in Illinois, where two 
brothers had previously settled. In the spring 
of 1858 the entire family moved to Brown 
county, Kans., where the mother died the 
following November. Jacob then came to 
St. Joseph, Mo., and worked for a dairyman 
until i860, when he went to Illinois, where 
he worked on a farm and attended school. 
Returning to St. Joseph, in 1865, he entered 
his brother's grocery as a clerk, and in 1866 
was graduated from Bryant's Business Col- 
lege. He then worked as weighmaster, for 
a time, in a pork packing house, and in the 
meantime read medicin^ under the precep- 
torship of Dr. Galen E. Bishop, which he 
continued while clerking in a drug store. 
From 1868 to 1870 he practiced medicine, 
then entered the medical department of the 
University of Louisville from which he was 
graduated in 1872. Returning to St. Joseph 
he again engaged in general practice until 
1890, since which time he has made a 
specialty of surgery. The Doctor was one 
of the organizers of the St. Joseph Hospital 
Medical College, where he filled the chair of 
anatomy. In 1880 he helped organize the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, and 
after the consolidation of the two institutions 
in 1883 assumed the chair of surgery. He 
was also dean of the faculty until 1889, when 
the name of the college was changed to 
Ensworth. Dr. Geiger is a life trustee of this 
institution. In 1890 he was one of the organ- 
izers of the Marion Sims Medical College at 
St. Louis, Mo., at which time he was elected 
to the chair of surgery, which position he still 
holds. He started the Medical Herald in 
1887, is a member of numerous medical asso- 



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ciations and has taken a keen interest in mat- 
ters pertaining to the advancement of medical 
science. 

In 1887 Dr. Geiger was united in mar- 
riage with Louise Kollatz, who was born in 
Atchison, Kans., and is a daughter of Wil- 
liam Kollatz. 

Politically Dr. Geiger is a Republican, 
and served four years as an alderman. Fra- 
ternally he is a Mason, while in religious 
attachment he is a Presbyterian. He resides 
at No. 1033 Faraon street, and his office is 
in the Geiger block, Nos. 609-613 Francis 
street, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



politics he is independent. Married October 
23, 1878, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Eva C. 
Crane. Business address, 423-425 North 
Fourth street ; residence address, 2643 Mary- 
land avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ARCHIBALD K. BONHAM. 

Archibald K. Bonham. President of the 
J. H. Crane Furniture Company. Born Oc- 
tober 27, 1855, in Clark county, Va. Son of 
G. A. and Mary (Frances) Bonham. He 
was educated in the private school and Bethel 
Military Academy, Warren, Va. He began 
his business career as a clerk with the Lig- 
gett-Meyers Tobacco Company. From 1876 
to 1883 was partner in a wholesale grocery 
and a cotton factory business in Vicksburg, 
Miss. In 1883 entered the employ of J. H. 
Crane as a salesman, and remained in that 
position until 1903. January 27, 1903, Mr. 
Bonham organized the J. H. Crane Furniture 
Company (incorporated), composed of A. 
K. Bonham, president; E. C. Bonham, vice- 
president, and J. R. Wilder, secretary and 
treasurer. The firm transacts a large busi- 
ness in wholesale and retail furniture. 

Mr. Bonham is a member of the Mer- 
chants' League, of St. Louis, Mo., and the 
Missouri Athleffc Club. He is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church south ; in 



THOMAS M. GALLAGHER. 

Thomas M. Gallagher, manufacturer, 
was born December 27, 1840, in New Or- 
leans, La., son of John K. and Mary (Me- 
lady) Gallagher. When two years of age 
his parents removed to Cincinnati, Ohio, 
where he obtained his education in the pri- 
vate and public schools of that city until he 
was fifteen years old. He came to St. Louis 
in 1855, ^"d i" ^856 he went to work for 
Joseph B. Reed & Co., a firm which then 
operated a machine shop at the corner of 
Tenth street and Washington avenue. He 
remained with this house until 1859, in which 
year he transferred his services to the old 
firm of Gaty & McEwing, engaged in the 
same line of business. In 1861 he left this 
firm and went to the St. Louis arsenal where 
he was employed on government work until 
September, 1862. He then went to Jackson, 
Tenn., to work for the Mobile & Ohio Rail- 
road Company, where he stayed six months, 
then went to Columbus, Ky., in the employ 
of the same corporation, where he was fore- 
man of the company's shops until 1863, when 
he was made master mechanic of the Mobile 
& Ohio Railroad Company. This position lie 
retained until 1865. During all the time he 
was connected with the Mobile & Ohio rail- 
road Company he was in the employ of tlie 
United States government. Serious illness 
resulted in his abandoning the railroad busi- 
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Thomas Howard & Co., machinists, then 
doing business at the corner of Eighth street 
and Clark avenue. In 1867 he went to Cin- 
cmnati, Ohio, to become superintendent of 
the works of the Southwestern Freight & 
Express Company, and remained there until 
1869, when he returned to St. Louis and 
connected himself with the iron manufactur- 
ing firm of Shickle, Harrison & Co., and in 
1870 he was made foreman of their works. 
This position he held until 1882, having full 
charge of all their outside work in the con- 
struction of water and gas works. Later 
in this year the firm was succeeded by the 
corporation known as the Shickle, Harrison 
& Howard Iron Company, in which he be- 
came a stockholder and superintendent. In 
1 895 he was made vice-president and general 
superintendent, and still retains these posi- 
tions. His success has been the result of his 
own effort, and it may well be said that he 
is one of the self-made men of St. Louis. He 
is a stanch Democrat in his political affilia- 
tions, a member of Keystone Lodge of the 
Masonic Order, and of the Order of the 
Knights of Honor. 

On August 3, 1859, Mr. Gallagher mar- 
ried Miss Elizabeth Fine, of St. Louis. Their 
children are Thomas Edward and Andrew 
Barton Gallagher. Business address, Man- 
chester avenue and Kraft street; residence 
address, Old Orchard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



EUGENE A. DREY. 

Eugene A. Drey, treasurer of the Drey 
& Kahn Glass Company, was born in 1882 
in St. Louis, Mo. Son of Albert and Marie 
(Morgenstern) Drey. Eudcated in the St. 
Louis puljhc schools. University of Chicago 



and Cornell University. He is a member of 
the Drey & Kahn Glass Company, in- 
corporated, and of which he became presi- 
dent at time of incorporation. The orig- 
inal firm was established in 1867, composed 
of Albert Drey, Max Kahn, Adolph Drey, 
admitted later. Previous to entering this 
iscorporated company he was a clerk for 
several years. He is a member of the Mis- 
souri Athletic Club and the Amateur Ath- 
letic Club. He is a Hebrew in religious 
belief, and independent in politics. Business 
address. Eleventh and St. Charles streets; 
residence address, Washington Hotel, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



PIERRE CHOUTEAU. 

Pierre Chouteau was born in St. Louis, 
Mo., July 30, 1849, ^ son of Charles 
P. and Julia Augusta (Gratiot) Chouteau. 
After receiving a thorough education in St. 
Louis, his tastes and talents inclined strongly 
to the mechanical arts, so he went to Europe 
and took the course in the Royal School of 
Arts, Mines and Manufactures at Liege, 
Belgium. In 1874 he returned to St. Louis, 
contemplating engaging in the civil engineer- 
ing business, but his father needed his assitt- 
ance in the management of his business prop- 
erties, and, as the father advanced in years, 
his business devolved mostly upon the son. 
Nevertheless he has found time to give some 
attention to the mechanical arts, and to ex- 
hibit his mechanical genius in the invention 
of appliances and devices, whose merit is 
recognized and demonstrated in their gen- 
eral adoption. Mr. Chouteau's tastes and 
inclinations are not exclusively mechanical. 
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accomplished writer and an accurate critic. 
He is an active member of the Missouri His- 
torical Society, and has done more, probably, 
than any one else to collect and preserve 
imcient documents, papers and books illus- 
trating the early conditions and history of 
the city. He is a man of fortune, as his 
father and grandfather and great-grand- 
father were before him. 

On November 27, 1882, Mr. Chouteau 
married Miss Lucille M. Chauvin, of St. 
Louis. Residence address, 319 North Fourth 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES CLELLAND BLAND. 

Charles Clelland Bland, lawyer and 
jurist, was born February 9, 1837, in Hart- 
ford, Ohio county, Ky. His parents, Stough- 
ton E. and Margaret (Nail) Bland, were 
natives of Kentucky. Judge Bland came to 
Missouri when a boy, was reared in south- 
east Missouri and received his education in 
Arcadia Academy, in Arcadia. He taught 
school for a while in Missouri, and later in 
Prentiss, Miss. At the same time he read 
law, and in i860 was admitted to the bar at 
Salem, Dent county, Missouri. At the break- 
ing out of the war, however, he gave up his 
practice and enlisted with the Union army, 
according to his convictions. Until the close 
of the war he was in active service in Com- 
pany D, Thirty-second Missouri Volunteer 
Lifantry. In 1864 he was mustered out with 
the rank of captain. After the war he prac- 
ticed law alone in Rollo, Mo., until 1866, 
when he practiced in partnership with his 
brother, Hon. Richard P. Bland. In 1880 
he was elected to the circuit bench at Rollo, 
and re-elected in 1886, and again in 1892. 



but resigned before the expiration of his terr 
to accept the associate-justiceship of the Si 
Louis Court of Appeals, to which he wa 
elected in 1896. Business address, secoH' 
floor, south wing, city hall; residence ad 
dress, 43 1 1 North Eleventh street, St. Louii 
Missouri. 



HENRY WHITELAW BOND. 

Henry Whitelaw Bond, judge and juris 
was born near Brownsville, Tenn., Januar 
27, 1848. He was the son of Thomas an 
Ellen (Whitelaw) Bond, descendants c 
good Scotch-Irish stock. The subject of thi 
biography resided with his parents in Ter 
nessee until he was sixteen years of age, dui 
ing which time he received the benefits of 
common school education in his home towi 
He then removed with his parents to S 
Louis, where he entered the well-known pr 
vate institution, Wyman's Institute. Youn 
Bond completed his education at Harvar 
College. He studied law in Tennessee, unde 
Judge Thomas Freeman, a noted advocat 
of that state, and was admitted to the bar i 
1870. He practiced his profession in Ter 
nessee for nine years, with marked succes: 
He then removed to St. Louis and, thoug 
but thirty years old, Mr. Bond found no di' 
ficulty in building up a remarkably lucrativ 
law practice in a short time. In 1879 '^^ ^^^^ 
ciated himself with the well-known lawyei 
Judge James J. Lindsley, continuing in th: 
partnership for six years. In 1885 he wa 
sent to the State Legislature, by a large nic 
jority. He later returned to his practia 
having formed a law partnership wit 
Charles and C. E. Gibson, under the fin 
name of Gibson. Bond & Gibson, whic 
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nember of the St. Louis Court of Appeals, 
^e discharged the duties of that office until 
Dctober 7, 1901, when he resigned to resume 
he general practice of the law. 

In 1880 Judge Bond married Miss Mary 
Miller, daughter of Judge Austin Miller, of 
Bolivar, Tenn. Their union has been blessed 
,vith four children: Thomas, Irene, White- 
aw and Marion Bond. Business address, 
219 North Fourth street, Laclede building; 
Residence address, 3744 Washington Boule- 
vard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LEWIS D. DOZIER. 

Lewis D. Dozier, manufacturer, was born 
August 25, 1846, in St. Charles county, Mo., 
son of Capt. James and May Ann (Dudg- 
eon) Dozier, the father a native of North 
Carolina and the mother of Kentucky. He 
came to St. Louis in i860 — his father's fam- 
ily removing here in 1865 — and after attend- 
ing the \\'ashington public school, completed 
his education at the Bryant & Stratton Com- 
mercial College, of this city, from which in- 
stitution he was graduated. Soon after leav- 
ing school he became a silent partner in the 
bakery business, which had been established 
by his father and Joseph Garneau in 1867, 
under the firm name of J. Garneau & Dozier. 
This partnership expired by limitation Jan- 
uary I, 1872, and in April of that year he 
became one of the partners in the Dozier- 
Weyl Cracker Company, a partnership firm 
of which his father was senior member. At 
the death of the elder Dozier this partnership 
was succeeded by a corporation bearing the 
name, Dozier-W'eyl Cracker Company, and 
John T. Dozier, a brother of Lewis D. Do- 
zier, succeeded to the presidency of the cor- 



poration, which continued to be known as 
the Dozier-Weyl Cracker Company. In 
1888 Mr. L. D. Dozier purchased the in- 
terest of Mr. Weyl and conducted the busi- 
ness under the name of the Dozier Cracker 
Company until 1890, when the corporation 
was merged into the American Biscuit & 
Manufacturing Company. In February, 
1898, this corporation was in turn purchased 
by the National Biscuit Company, in which 
Mr. Dozier is a large stockholder and a direc- 
tor. Lie continues to be prominently identi- 
fied with this great manufacturing interest, 
and is also manager of the Dozier Bakery 
in St. Louis. As a business man he has been 
eminently successful, and in various ways the 
city of St. Louis and its institutions have 
been sharers in his prosperity. For several 
years he was first vice-president of the Manu- 
facturers' Association, and he is a director 
of the Merchants-Laclede National Bank, 
Mercantile Trust Company, Mercantile Li- 
brary, and a member of the St. Louis Com- 
mercial Club, and of the Missouri Historical 
Society, and a life member of the Board of 
trustees of the Bellefontaine Cemetery. 
When the movement looking to the holding 
of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. 
Louis, took definite form, Mr. Dozier was 
made a member of the Board of Directors, 
and appointed a member of the executive 
committee of this great enterprise. Interested 
in promoting the moral and intellectual ad- 
vancement as well as the material prosperity 
of St. Louis, he has been a generous friend 
and patron of the Young Men's Christian 
Association, in the completion of whose 
building he was actively interested; a mem- 
ber of the Provident x\ssociation ; is a direc- 
tor and active worker in St. Luke's Hospital, 
and other institutions which have been made 
for the betterment of the citv. He is a mem- 






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s also the president of the Flat River Mining 
Company, capital stock one million dollars. 
Dr. May field was married, in 1874, to 
Miss Ellen C. Sitzes, of Marquand, Mo. 
Business address, corner West Bell Place 
uid Taylor avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. WILLIAM ALFRED CLARK. 

Dr. William Alfred Clark, physician, 
was born in Clarksburg, Moniteau county. 
Mo., September 11, 1865, where he was 
-aised. His early education was in the schools 
3f the village ; later he attended the Waynes- 
i-ille (Pa.) College, where he graduated in 
the class of 1889, and received the degree of 
A.. M. The following five years he was 
engaged in the exalted work of teaching, 
during the whole time at Tipton, performing 
also the duties of superintendent of schools. 
During his teaching at Tipton, following the 
bent of his mind, he was a reader of medical 
works in the office of Dr. S. H. Redmon, of 
that town. In 1894 he entered the medical 
department of Washington University, St. 
Louis, from which institution he graduated 
in 1897, coming immediately to Jefiferson 
City and engaging in the practice of his pro- 
fession, and has continued a successful prac- 
titioner since. 

Dr. Clark is a member of the Blue Lodge, 
Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery, and 
a most worthy representative of those ex- 
alted social organizations. He is also a direc- 
tor of the Jefiferson City Library Associa- 
tion, of which he was one of the orieinal 
promoters, and in which he has continued 
to take an active interest. In addition to his 
regular practice, he is the county physician. 
He is a young man of fine physique, with an 



excellent mind, well stored, not only with 
facts connected with the science of his pro- 
fession, but to this is added a broad culture 
obtained from general reading. His father 
was George T., son of Hiram Clark, who 
immigrated from Kentucky, in 1836, and set- 
tled in Moniteau county, and for whom the 
village of Clarksburg was named. Although 
Dr. Clark has been in Jefferson City only 
a few years, he has fully identified himself 
with her material and social interests and is 
highly esteemed, both as a physician and 
citizen. He was married, September 23, 
1899, to Miss Clare Neef, daughter of Her- 
man Neef (deceased), of Jefiferson City, a 
lady of culture and a most charming person- 
ality. His home is on Adams street. Busi- 
ness address. Merchants' Bank building ; res- 
idence address, Flat A, Neef Terrace, Jef- 
ferson City, Missouri. 



CYRUS F. BLANKE. 

Cyrus F. Blanke. Merchant. Born Oc- 
tober 24, 1861, in Marine, 111., and son of 
Frederick G. and Caroline Blanke, both na- 
tives of Germany. Mr. Blanke obtained his 
early education in the public schools of his 
native town, supplementing this with a 
course at a St. Louis business college. After 
completing his education he went to work in 
his father's store in Marine, but shortly after- 
ward came to St. Louis where he entered 
the employ of a retail grocery store. The 
next year he took a position as shipping clerk 
in a tobacco factory, remaining until the 
close of 1 88 1. He then became city collec- 
tor and traveling salesman for a wholesale 
tea and cofifee house. He remained with this 
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his taste, Mr. Blanke established a house of 
his own in this Hne under the firm name of 
C. F. Blanke & Co. In 1892 it was incor- 
porated under the laws of the state of Mis- 
souri, with a capital of $100,000, increasing 
it two years later to $200,000. At the end of 
eight years this establishment had become 
one of the largest coffee roasting plants in 
the west, its trade extending all over the 
country. 

Mr. Blanke is a Republican in politics, 
but has never been actively interested in any 
political movement. He is a member of the 
Mercantile Club, Merchants' League, League 
of American Wheelmen, Spanish Club and 
the Union Club. He is also a member of the 
Manufacturers' Association, and a director 
of the Jefferson Bank. 

In 1889 Mr. Blanke was married to Miss 
Eugenia Frowein, of Clinton, Mo. Business 
address, northeast corner of Seventh and 
Clark avenue; residence address, 2837 La- 
fayette avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



tered the firm of P. E. Wolff Shirt Company 
in January, 1900. In religious belief he is a 
Christian Scientist. He was a member of 
the Missouri National Guards for five years, 
being sergeant major of the First Missouri 
Volunteer Infantry. 

Mr. Brueggeman was married in Jan- 
uary, 1898, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Bessie 
Parker. Business address, 815 Washington 
avenue; residence address, 4218 Westmin- 
ster Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ALBERT HERBERT BRUEGGEMAN. 

Albert Herbert Brueggeman, vice-presi- 
ident of the Paul E. Wolfif Shirt Company, 
composed of the following members: Paul 
E. Wolff, A. J. Hildebrand and A. H. 
Brueggeman. Established in 1896. The 
firm was incorporated in 1895, and he became 
the vice-president. He was born in 1876 in 
St. Louis, Mo. Son of George H. and 
Alvina (Woerheide) Brueggeman. Edu- 
cated in the public and high schools in St. 
Louis, Mo. Began his business career at the 
age of fourteen years in a wholesale hard- 
ware house, then cotton goods commission 
business, representing cotton mills ; then en- 



CHARLES GREEN. 

Charles Green. Real estate, street railway 
operator and financier. Born in Ballinas- 
loe, Gal way county, Ireland, in May, 1838 
Son of James and Mary Green. He obtained 
a fair education at his native home, and ir 
1857 emigrated to America. He had alsc 
studied law, and on his arrival in St. Louii 
entered the St. Louis University, where hi; 
education was completed. He accepted a sit 
uation in the St. Louis postoffice, under Post 
master Foy, which position he retained abou 
a year, and then became bookkeeper in thi 
State Savings Association, where he re 
mained four years. He was then cashier 
the Merchants' Union Express Company fo 
twelve months. In 1866 he established th 
real estate firm of Green & LaMotte. whicl 
existed until the death of Mr. LaMotte. Ii 
1873 he was unanimously elected as presiden 
of the Board of Assessors for the city am 
county of St. Louis. Mr. Green has hai 
charge of numerous estates of wealthy citi 
zens. In 1879 he became one of the syndi 
cate purchasing the Carondelet Gas Corr 
pany, and has been a stockholder in seven- 
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became a leading stockholder in the St. Louis 
Agricultural & Mechanical Fair Association, 
and in 1880 was elected its president. 

In 1868 Mr. Green married Miss Henri- 
etta Preuatt, of Madison, Indiana. They 
have had seven children. Business address, 
720 Chestnut street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



OWEN MARTIN DEAN. 

Owen Martin Dean, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Hadley-Dean Glass Company. 
Born November 12, 1838, in Ireland. Son 
of Martin and Annie (Gallagher) Dean. 
Educated in the public and high schools in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. His great-grandfather 
was an eminent physician and musician. He 
began his business career as a grocery clerk 
in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1853; afterwards in 
the machine, produce and commission busi- 
ness. In 1858 he located in St. Louis, and 
since that time has been connected and in- 
terested in many important enterprises, in- 
cluding private individual firms and corpo- 
rations. From 1870 to 1895 he was presi- 
dent of the O. M. Dean & Company. In 
1875 president, secretary and treasurer of 
the Carondelet Railway Company. In 1863 
director and stockholder of the Co-Opera- 
tive Iron Works. In 1872 director of the 
French Window Glass Company. In 1867 
owner of two-thirds interest in the Dean & 
Madden Company. In 1905 secretary and 
treasurer of the Hadley-Dean Glass Com- 
pany, incorporated in 1897, composed of the 
corporate officials as follows : Leo G. Had- 
ley, president; O. M. Dean, secretary and 
treasurer; George F. Hefferman, director. 

Mr. Dean is a member of the Royal Ar- 
canum, was a member of the American Le- 



gion of Honor; Catholic Knights of Amer- 
ica, Young Men's Society, St. Louis Uni- 
versity. He is a Catholic in religion, and 
an independent Democrat in politics. He 
was married November 14, 1858, in St. 
Louis, to Miss Mary Kilker. Children born : 
Eugenia Cecelia, Agnes, John McH. and 
Julia Dean. Business address, Eleventh 
street and Lucas avenue ; residence address, 
2855 Maramec street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



AUGUST GEHNER. 

August Gehner. Banker and financier. 
Born in Hanover, Germany, September 18, 
1846, son of Conrad and Mary (Hehman) 
Gehner. He obtained his early education in 
his native city, and came to St. Louis when 
he was thirteen years of age, where he com- 
pleted his studies at the German Institute. 
In 1862 he enlisted as a private soldier in 
Company L, of the First Missouri Light 
Artillery, where he served honorably and 
faithfully with the Union forces until July 
20, 1865, when he was honorably dis- 
charged. Then coming to St. Louis, he 
turned his attention to civil pursuits, and 
accepted a position as draughtsman in the 
surveyor general's office, which he filled for 
three years thereafter. He then became a 
clerk in the office of Hurk & O'Reilley, ab- 
stracters of titles. Three years later he 
opened an abstract office of his own at the 
corner of Third and Pine streets ; later he 
removed to the Wainwright building;^ in 
which his business has since been carried on. 
His business has grown to large proportions, 
and it is said that he has made abstracts of 
the titles to almost every piece of real prop- 
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nent as a banker and financier. He has been 
president of the German- American Bank of 
St. Louis. He is identified very promi- 
nently with tlie Mississippi Valley Trust 
Company. The German Fire Insurance 
Company, and the Planters' Hotel Company, 
in each of which companies he is a director. 
He is a member of the St. Louis Club, and 
has also been prominent among the veterans 
of the Civil war, being a member of the 
Frank P. Blair Post, No. i, of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. 

Mr. Gehner was married in 1870 to Miss 
Minna Wehmiller, of St. Louis, and has 
two children, a son, Albert, and a daughter, 
Pauline Gehner. Business address, 709 
Chestnut street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILBUR F. BOYLE. 

Wilbur F. Boyle, lawyer and jurist, son 
of Rev. Dr. Joseph and Emnieline (Gist) 
Boyle, was born August 20, 1840. When 
he was two years old his parents removed to 
St. Louis, but his father's calling necessi- 
tated many changes of residence, and as a 
consequence young Boyle's education was 
obtained in various schools. He completed 
his studies at Asbury University, Green- 
castle, Ind. He then returned to St. Louis, 
where he read law and was admitted to the 
Missouri bar on January i, 1868. He im- 
mediately commenced the practice of his 
profession, and was eminently successful for 
eight years. He was then elected circuit 
judge, and for six years sat uix)n the bench, 
to the credit of his constituents. Judge 
Boyle declined a second term and resumed 
his practice dfi the first of January, 1883. 
From 1885 to 1892 he was senior member 



of the firm of Boyle, McKeigan & Adams. 
In 1892 he became the head of Boyle & 
Adams, and continued until 1895, when the 
firm was changed to Boyle, Priest & Leh- 
mann, at present one of the strongest law 
firms in the middle west. 

In 1864 Judge Boyle was married to 
Miss Fannie Brother. Business address, 87 
Laclede building; residence address, 5035 
Lindell avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES L. CARLISLE. 

James L. Carli.-le, lawyer, and ex-post- 
master of St. Louis, was born in that city 
January 13, 1851, son of David and Mary 
Ann (Court) Carlisle. As a child he went 
to the private school of Miss Jane Lewis, on 
Walnut street; then to Elliot public school, 
Fifteenth and Pine; then to the Benton pub- 
lic school, and afterward to the high school, 
where he graduated in June, 1868. Fol- 
lowing this he attended Washington Uni- 
versity one year, and after an intermission 
of twelve months he entered a collegiate 
course of Latin, Greek, mathematics, etc., 
at Central College, Fayette, Mo. He then 
spent two years at the St. Louis Law School, 
from which institute he graduated in 1873, 
and was soon afterward admitted to the bar. 
For three years he was in the law office of 
Glover & Shepley, and after leaving this 
firm formed a partnership with Robert E. 
Collins, with whom he was associated for 
two years thereafter. Later, became head 
of the firm of Carlisle & Ottofy, which was 
dissolved after his appointment to the post- 
mastership. From May, 1883, to January, 
1 89 1, he held, by appointment of the Circuit 
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missioner. Mr. Carlisle is a Democrat in 
politics, and for four years he was chairman 
of the City Democratic committee, and was 
the first man ever elected to that post by a 
convention of the party. This innovation 
in party usages in St. Louis resulted from 
the declination of Mr. Carlisle to represent 
his ward on the committee, and at the same 
time to act as its chairman, he feeling that 
one man could not do full justice to both 
positions. At his suggestion the custom of 
making ward representative chairman of the 
committee was changed, and since then the 
chairman of the city Democratic committees 
have been regularly selected in open conven- 
tions of the party. While holding the posi- 
tion of chairman of this committee, Gov- 
ernor Francis tendered him the office of 
recorder of voters for St. Louis, which ap- 
pointment he reluctantly accepted. While 
still holding this office he was appointed 
postmaster of St. Louis. He was frequently 
a delegate to nominating conventions, and 
conspicuous at all caucuses and assemblages 
of the Democracy. In 1894 he was, by 
President Cleveland, appointed postmaster of 
St. Louis, serving from April i, of that 
year to August 15, 1898. 

Mr. Carlisle is a member of the Metho- 
dist Episcopal church south. He was bap- 
tized and raised in the Centenary church. 
In 1886 he assisted in the organization of 
Immanuel church. Seven times, succes- 
sively, he was elected lay delegate to the St. 
Louis Annual Conference, and twice elected 
delegate from the St. Louis to the General 
Conference. He is a Mason, also an Odd 
Fellow; member of the local Legion of 
Honor — which he aided in organizing, and 
of which he was the first supreme recorder ; 
of the A. O. U. W. ; the Royal Arcanum ; 
has been junior warden in the Benton Lodge 



A. F. & A. M. ; has filled all the chairs in 
Coral Lodge, I. O. O. F., and has been 
chancellor in the St. Louis and Grove Coun- 
cils, Legion of Honor. Also member of the 
Mercantile Club and the Noonday Club. 

On December 30, 1880, Mr. Carlisle was 
married to Katharine Otey Johnson. They 
have one daughter, Mary Katharine Car- 
lisle. Business address, 921 Chestnut street, 
St. Louis. Missouri. 



WILLIAM H. BIGGS. 

William H. Biggs, associate justice of 
the St. Louis Court of Appeals, was born in 
Clark county. Mo., August i, 1842, a son 
of George K. and Nannie (Floyd) Biggs. 
He was given a good education, which 
was completed at LaGrange College, La- 
Grange, Lewis county, Mo. The war in- 
tervened between his school days and the 
period of the more arduous duties of life, 
and he became a soldier of the lost cause, 
in the Confederate army, in 1861. In 1866 
he returned home and proceeded to carry 
out the plans, interrupted by the war, of 
fitting himself for the bar, entering the office 
of Judge James Ellison, at Canton, Lewis 
county, Mo., and completed his readings. 
He was admitted to the bar in 1869, and 
began practice in Bowling Green, Pike 
county. In 1873 he removed to Louisiana, 
in the same county, where, during the next 
sixteen years, he built up an excellent prac- 
tice. In 1888 he was the nominee of the 
judicial convention for the St. Louis Court 
of Appeals, and was triumphantly elected, 
since which time he has made St. Louis his 
headquarters. Judge Biggs has done his 
share toward maintaining the high standard 



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of the second highest court in the common- 
wealth. 

In 1870 Judge Biggs was married to 
Miss EHza Shotwell. Business address, 122 
North Seventh street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN ALEXANDER BLEVINS. 

John Alexander Blevins, judge of the St. 
Louis Circuit court, was born in Abington, 
Washington county, Va., October 29, i860, 
a son of Zacharia C. and Susan S. Blevins. 
When he was nine years old he moved with 
his parents to Versailles, Morgan county. 
Mo. Here, for several years, he attended 
the public schools, and afterwards took a 
course in Simpson's Listitute. He read law 
in the office of Col. Anderson W. Anthony. 
Judge Blevins was admitted to the bar in 
1882. He afterwards took the three years' 
course in the Columbian University, Wash- 
ington, D. C, and was graduated from that 
institution in 1885 with the degree of Bache- 
lor of Laws and Master of Laws. He was 
appointed to a position in the office of Hon. 
Adlai E. Stephenson, who was then the first 
assistant postmaster general, and who was 
afterwards elected vice-president of the 
United States. He was, soon after his ap- 
pointment, selected by the postmaster gen- 
eral, William F. Vilas, to take charge of his 
personal and official correspondence pertain- 
ing to his own state, Wisconsin. After three 
years service in Washington, Judge Blevins 
spent nearly a year in California, as his 
health had been greatly impaired by inces- 
sant work. In 1898 he returned to Versailles 
and resumed the practice of law. In 1890 he 
was elected prosecuting attorney of Morgan 
county, and in 1892 was re-elected. Judge 



Blevins opened a law office in St. Louis, in 
October, 1894. He was, for a while, the 
senior partner in the law firm of Blevins, 
Lyons & Swarts, but for four years prior 
to his going on the bench he was practicing 
alone. The Missouri General Assembly, in 
March, 1903, passed a law increasing the 
number of circuit judges for the city of St. 
Louis, and on March 2-/, 1903, Mr. Blevins 
was appointed to the Circuit bench by Gov- 
ernor Alexandry M. Dockery. Judge Blevins 
has always taken a part in politics, and has 
uniformly supported the nominees and poli- 
cies of the Democratic party. He is a mem- 
ber of the Jefferson Club, of which he was 
one of the organizers. 

On April 29, 1884, Judge Blevins was 
married to Miss Cerro Gordo McMinn, oi 
Versailles, Mo. They have one son and one 
daughter. Business address. No. 7, Court 
House, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE C. SMITH. 

George C. Smith was born in Coopei 
county, Mo., and was there reared on < 
farm, and educated in the county schools. A' 
the age of twenty-one he secured a positior 
as clerk at IMilton, Atchison county. Mo. 
with the general store of Hoblitzell & Judd 
and with that firm had his first experience ir 
the mercantile business. He remained witl 
them one and one-half years, and then wen 
to St. Joseph, Mo., accepting a position it 
the wholesale and retail dry goods store o 
Townsend & Wood, where he remained foi 
one year; he then accepted a position in tin 
wholesale dry goods store of Lemon, Hose; 
& Company, and a year later, when that firn 
sold out to Milton Tootle, John S. Britiai 



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and John Ovelman, who formed a three 
years' partnership, under the firm name and 
style of Brittian, Ovelman & Company. He 
remained with this firm as salesman and 
assistant buyer, continuing thus for three 
years, or until the end of their partnership. 
The style of the firm was then changed to 
John S. Brittian & Company, and Mr. Smith 
was then admitted to partnership. After six 
years of successful business he sold his in- 
terest in this firm and embarked in the whole- 
sale grocery business in Kansas City, Mo., 
under the firm style of Smith-Heddens & 
Company. After five years of successful 
operation in this, he again sold out and re- 
turned to St. Joseph, Mo., and again formed 
a partnership with John S. Brittian in the 
wholesale dry goods business, under the title 
of the Brittian-Smith Company, which firm 
succeeded Brittian, Richardson & Company, 
in the wholesale dry goods business, and also 
bought the business of the Wood Manufac- 
turing Company, manufacturing shirts, pants 
and overalls in connection with the wholesale 
dry goods business. Mr. Smith was chief 
manager of both concerns. He was thus 
associated in business until 1893, when he 
again sold out and formed a partnership with 
James McCord, president of the Nave-Mc- 
Cord Mercantile Company, and Mr. John 
Townsend, president of the Townsend & 
Wyatt Dry Goods Company, under the title 
of Smith-McCord Dry Goods Company, 
making one of the strongest combinations in 
the mercantile business on the Mississippi 
river. This company began the wholesale 
dry goods business September i, 1893, at 
Seventh and Wyandotte streets, Kansas City, 
Mo., and in ten years, from 1893 to 1903, 
this business had made such rapid growth 
that it was necessary to secure larger quar- 
ters, and the building at the corner of Sev- 



enth and Central streets, six floors, one hun- 
dred and forty-two feet square, was then 
obtained. On moving into the new quarters, 
in January, 1903, the name of the company 
was changed to Smith-McCord-Townsend 
Dry Goods Company, and the capital of the 
company increased two and one-third times. 
Mr. Smith has been president of this com- 
pany since the beginning. They have an 
enormous trade all over the west, and the 
reputation of the house is above question. 
Mr. Smith is a fine example of a successful 
business man. He is a director of the Com- 
mercial Club, The Convention Hall Company 
and the Provident Association, and takes 
much interest in the public affairs and pros- 
perity of Kansas City. 

Mr. Smith was married June 8, 1880, in 
St. Joseph, Mo., to Miss Mattie Heddens, 
daughter of Dr. W. I. Heddeus, and they 
have three children, Irving H., George C, 
Jr., and Catherine. 



WALDO BRIGGS. 



Waldo Briggs, physician and surgeon, 
a son of Dr. William T. Briggs, was born 
July 2, 1855, in Bowling Green, Ky. He 
received a good common school education, 
then entered the University of Nashville, 
Tenn., where he completed the course, later 
taking a medical course in Vanderbilt Uni- 
versity of Nashville, to prepare himself for 
the profession he had adopted. He was 
graduated from this institution with high 
honors in 1875, and two years later came to 
St. Louis. He took up the special branch 
of surgery, and soon after his arrival in this 
city was given the lectureship in the Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. In 1884 



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he accepted the chair of chnical surgery and 
genito-urinary surgery in the Beaumont 
Medical College. Later he was made con- 
sulting surgeon of the Female Hospital and 
City Hospital, having at the same time a 
large private practice. Dr. Briggs is the 
author of the celehrated "extra-abdominal 
method of treating intestinal wounds." This 
process is unique and involves, of course, 
laparotomy. It has been almost universally 
adopted by other surgeons. He has been 
professor of surgery and dean of the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, and chief sur- 
geon of the Jefiferson Hospital. 

In 1880 Dr. Briggs married Miss Nellie 
Grey, of Centralia, 111. One son has been 
born to them, Grey Briggs. Business ad- 
dress, 500 North Jefiferson avenue ; residence 
address, 4399 Forest Park boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



B. and Ernest A. Hildebrand. Business ad- 
dress, 815 Washington avenue; residence 
address, 4239 Castleman avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



ADOLPH J. HILDEBRAND. 

Adolph J. Hildebrand. Wholesale shirt 
merchant. Born March 2, 1854, in Water- 
loo. 111. Son of Philip and Anna (Dressier) 
Hildebrand. Educated in the public schools 
of St. Louis, and in the St. Louis commercial 
colleges. He is a member of the Paul E. 
Wolff Shirt Company, established in 1895, 
when he became the secretary and treasurer. 
In his early business career he chose mercan- 
tile pursuits, and began as a clerk, afterwards 
became manager, and in 1895 entered the 
above company. Mr. Hildebrand is a mem- 
ber of the A. O. U. W. In politics he is a 
Republican. 

Mr. Hildebrand was married December 
9, 1879, in St^Louis, Mo., to IMiss Jennie G. 
Van Graafeiland. Children : Van G., Lee 



JAMES V. S. BARRET. 

James V. S. Barret, was born June 11 
1 86 1, at Burlington, Iowa, a son of Hon 
Arthur Buckner and Anna Farrar (Swerin 
gen) Barret. Reared in this city Mr. Barre 
was educated under private tutorship and a 
the St. Louis University, completing hi; 
academic studies at Georgetown College, o 
Georgetown, D. C. Soon after leaving col 
lege he removed to a large stock farm anc 
cattle range, which he had acquired in thi 
Pecos Valley, in Texas. To Mr. Barret ma; 
be given the credit of having aided in beau 
tifying Lindell boulevard by having the pieo 
of ground at Vandeventer avenue and Lin 
dell boulevard made into a park. He 
is also accredited with having mad 
the largest offer ever made for an 
single piece of St. Louis real estate 
In 1895 ^^ formed a syndicate which offeree 
the St. Louis Agricultural & Mechanics 
Fair Association, through him, $1,000,001 
for its grounds. He was nominated for cit 
auditor by the Democratic city convention 
1897, '^^'t the nomination thus formally ter 
dered him was not accepted. He has bee 
active in perfecting the organization of th 
Patriotic Society of Sons of the Revolutio 
in the state of Missouri, being entitled t 
membership in that society as a great-grand 
son of William Barret, who served throng 
the Independence struggle as first lieutenar 
of the Third Continental Dragoons, and caf 
tain in Baylor Regiment of Dragoons ; great 
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was a sergeant in Lee's Battalion of Light 
Dragoons, later lieutenant and adjutant in 
the Revohitionary army, and still later a 
captain in the United States army. By virtue 
of his descent from Captain Winston he is 
also entitled to membership in the Society 
of Colonial Wars, Captain Winston having 
served in the Colonial wars under Lieut.-Col. 
William Washington of the Third Continen- 
tal Dragoons. 

Mr. Barret married Miss Harper Melton. 
Business address, 826 Chestnut street, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



CHARLES SWING BROWN. 

Charles Swing Brown. Manufacturer. 
Born at Brown's Mills, Burlington county, 
N. J., November 27, 1852. Son of George 
C. and Harriet (Swing) Brown. He was 
reared in New Jersey where he received a 
thorough English education, completing his 
studies at the high school of New Egypt, N. 
J. After leaving school, he served a four 
years' apprenticeship in the works of the H. 
B. Smith Machine Company, of Smithville, 
N. J., learning tlie trade of patternmaker. 
He then began working as a journeyman in 
the same establishment, and for three years 
was foreman of the pattern department. Li 
1877 he came west with his friend and co- 
laborer, Gorham O. Hall, and they estab- 
lished themselves in business together in St. 
Louis. Locating at 717 South Seventh 
street, they engaged in the manufacture of 
wood-working machinery under the firm 
name of Hall & Brown. Their business grew 
rapidly, and to meet the demand for their 
products they removed later to 19 13 North 
Broadway, at which location they built up 



a large industrial enterprise which they oper- 
ated until 1888, when the company was in- 
corporated, with Mr. Hall as president and 
Mr. Brown as vice-president and treasurer. 
Li December, 1897, Mr. Hall died. Feb- 
ruary following Mr. Brown succeeded him 
as president of the corporation, in which he 
is the principal shareholder. This industry 
furnishes employment to a large number of 
people. 

Mr. Brown is a Republican, and has well 
defined views concerning the political issues 
of the day. His religious afiiliations are 
with the Methodist church. Is a member 
of the Masonic Order, and the Order of Odd 
Fellows. In Masonry he affiliates with the 
Aurora Lodge, No. 267, Bellefontaine Chap- 
ter, No. 25, Royal Arch Masons; St. Aide- 
mar Commandery of Knights Templar, and 
Moolah Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S., and was 
one of the first fourteen Mystic Shrines west 
of the Mississippi river. 

Mr. Brown married August 24, 1880, 
Miss Sadie G. Warren, of Philadelphia. 
Their living children are Lillian J., Charles 
S., Jr., and Alfred W. Brown. Business ad- 
dress, 19 13 North Broadway, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



MARTIN S. BRENNAN. 

Martin S. Brennan, Catholic priest, a 
son of William and Margaret (Hackett) 
Brennan, was born in St. Louis July 23, 
1845. His childhood schooling was ob- 
tained in the old cathedral, and later he 
attended Christian Brothers' College where, 
in 1865, he received the degree of Bachelor 
of Arts, and afterwards that of Master of 
Arts and Sciences. He pursued his theo- 
logical studies at St. Vincent's College, Cape 



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Girardeau, Mo., and was ordained priest by 
Archbishop Kendrick, April 3, 1869, in St. 
John's church, St. Louis. After serving in 
missions at Hannibal and Lebanon, Mo., 
and the Cathedral, St. Patrick's and St. 
Michael's, this city, he was for eleven years 
assistant priest at St. Macachy's, where he 
was much esteemed. In 1891 he was pro- 
moted to St. Lawrence, O'Toole's parish, and 
at the synod called by Archbishop Kain, he 
was made one of the six permanent rectors 
of the city. Father Brennan has always been 
a busy man. He has been a member of the 
St. Louis Academy of Science, the Astron- 
omical Society of the Pacific, the British 
Astronomical Society, and has written sev- 
eral articles of note on the subject of 
astronomy, also other scientific works which 
have passed through several editions. He is 
professor of astronomy and geometry at the 
Kendrick Theological Seminary, and the 
public schools have adopted his work on 
"Electricity and its Doctrines" as a reference 
book. In 1 89 1, having been awarded the 
prize by a prominent newspaper vote as "the 
most popular pastor of St. Louis," he receiv- 
ing nearly a quarter of a million votes, Father 
Brennan, according to the terms of the ward, 
made a tour of Palestine and Europe, which 
gave to him the subject of several lectures, 
on his return, given to magnificent audiences, 
one of them, at the Grand Music Hall, 
numbering not less than six thousand. For 
many years he has been delivering lectures 
on scientific subjects, and has written numer- 
ous magazine articles of merit. He has offi- 
ciated as master of ceremonies at the conse- 
cration of many bishops, also at the celebra- 
tion of the golden jubilee of Archbishop Ken- 
drick, in i8gi, and at his funeral ; at the con- 
ferring of the^pallium on Archbishop Kain; 
at the service in honor of Cardinal Satolli, 



and, in fact, at every important Catholic cere 
monial for a score of years or more in thi< 
city. His true, Christian nature endears hin 
to all who know him. Residence address 
14 14 O' Fallon street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY BISCHOFF. 

Henry Bischoff, dressed beef and pro 
vision merchant, was born August 23, 1841 
in Borgholzhausen, Germany. He is a sor 
of Anton and Margaretta Bischoff. He cam( 
with his parents to this country in 1859 anc 
settled in Franklin county, Mo., where hi: 
father died in 1880. Young Bischoff re 
ceived a common school education, and upoi 
leaving school entered the employ of a liv( 
stock dealer in his native town in Germany 
with whom he remained until he removec 
with his parents to the United States. H( 
learned the butcher's trade in St. Louis anc 
followed that business until the war brok( 
out in 1861, when he enlisted in Company C 
Second Missouri Artillery Regiment, am 
entered the Union army, serving with thi 
Federal forces until he was mustered ou 
in the fall of 1863. Mr. Bischoff the: 
opened a small butcher shop of his own ii 
St. Louis, laying the foundation of what i: 
today one of the largest industries of its kinc 
in the city. He added gradually to his capi 
tal until, in 1882, he was able to start ; 
wholesale business, with his brother as ; 
partner, under the firm name of Bischof 
Bros. In 1891 he organized the St. Loui 
Dressed Beef & Provision Company, with ; 
capital stock of $100,000, increasing it t( 
$600,000 in 1898, with Mr. Bischoff as vice 
president. They employ from 350 to 45< 
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500 hogs, 100 sheep and 50 calves. Their 
brand of pork, sausage and similar products 
are well known all over the country, and to 
Mr. Bischoff's personal attention to the busi- 
ness is much of the company's success due. 
In politics Mr. Bischoff is a stanch Re- 
publican. He is a member of the German 
Lutheran church, and a generous contribu- 
tor to all worthy charities. On October 9, 
i860, he was married to Miss Henrietta 
Geissman, of St. Louis. Their family con- 
sists of six sons and two daughters. Resi- 
dence address, 3516 Manchester avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



WTLLL^M BAGNELL. 

William Bagnell, railroad builder, was 
born April 14, 1843, i" Rowden, Canada. 
He was the second son of William and Ame- 
lia Bagnell. who gave their son a liberal edu- 
cation in his home country. In 1865 he 
:ame to Chicago, and has always been en- 
gaged in the same business, for which he is 
especially fitted. He learned the rudiments 
of railway construction as an employe, and 
later as general manager for the largest rail- 
road contractor of the day. In 1869 he was 
largely instrumental in building the St. 
Louis, Cape Girardeau & Ft. Smith railroad. 
In 1879 the firm of Bagnell Bros, was 
Formed, later succeeded by the Bagnell Tim- 
3er Company, in both of which the subject 
li this sketch has been the controlling factor 
n the several successes of their various 
indertakings. He is president of the corpo- 
ration, and is today the sole survivor of the 
original firm. Besides carrying on the en- 
ire operations of the corporation, which 
:ntails a vast amount of time and care, Mr. 



Bagnell is administrator and executor of the 
estates of his deceased brothers, Robert and 
Thomas H. Bagnell, and personally cares 
for all details of these important trusts. He 
is essentially a business man, and has little 
time to give to public affairs, but politically 
Mr. Bagnell is a stanch Republican and an 
influential member of his party. He is a 
member of Mt. Moriah Lodge, No. 40, of St. 
Louis, and belongs to the Masonic Order. 
He is an active and devoted member of the 
Episcopal church, in which religious faith 
he had been reared since childhood. 

Mr. Bagnell was married in 1887 to Miss 
Sallie Adams, daughter of Judge Adams, of 
Boonville, Mo., and they have had three chil- 
dren, two sons and one daughter. Business 
address, Northwest corner of Seventh and 
Olive streets; residence address, 12 West- 
moreland Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LEO. G. HADLEY. 

Leo. G. Hadley. President of the Had- 
ley-Dean Glass Company. Born December 
17, 1863, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of George 
C. and Gussie (Noonan) Hadley. He was 
educated in the St. Louis public schools. He 
is a member of the Hadley-Dean Glass Com- 
pany, incorporated in 1897, at \vhich time he 
became president. Composed of Leo. G. 
Hadley, president; O. M. Dean, secretary 
and treasurer. Established in 1897. Whole- 
sale plate and window glass. At the begin- 
ning of his business career he was office boy 
for the F. A. Drew Glass Company, in 1878, 
and elected secretary of that company in 
1886. He is a member of the Royal Ar- 
canum and K. C. ; member of the Missouri 
El. Club, and Business Men's League. In 



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religious belief he is a Catholic, and in politics 
he is a Republican. 

Mr. Hadley was married January 17, 
1894. in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Alice M. 
Dean. To this union four children have been 
born. Business address, Eleventh and Lucas 
avenues; residence address, 2320 Whitte- 
more Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK C. DAVIDSON. 

Frank C. Davidson. Wholesale hatter. 
Born January 31, 1874, in Petosi, Mo. Son 
of Benjamin B. and Honora (Cook) David- 
son. Mr. Davidson was educated in the pub- 
lic schools of Petosi, Mo. Began his business 
life as a clerk with Janice, Saunders & Co., 
from 1890 to 1894; then with the Wear, 
Boogher Dry Goods Company from 1894 to 
1898; then with the Boogher, Force & Good- 
bar Hat Company to March 7, 1905, and the 
same year elected secretary of the McConkin- 
Luttmer Hat Company. The latter concern 
was incorporated the same year, 1905. Mr. 
Davidson assisted in the oragnization of the 
McConkin-Luttmer Hat Company. 

Fraternally Mr. Davidson is a member of 
the Elks. In politics he is a Democrat. Busi- 
ness address, 412 North Twelfth street; resi- 
dence address, 3537 Morgan street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



REDMOND S. COLNON. 

Redmond S. Colnon. Contractor. Born 
June 29. 1862, in Brownville, N. Y. Son 
of John W. E^d Harriet (Perkins) Colnon. 
Was educated in Cornell University, gradu- 



ating in the class of 1887. jMr. Colnon cam( 
to St. Louis, Mc, in 1887 and took up hi; 
chosen avocation, that of a civil engineer 
and after successfully pursuing this calling 
for several years he became interested in th( 
contracting business and associated himsel 
with Jeremiah Fruin, under the style o 
Fruin & Colnon, and their business ha; 
increased continuously since it was estab 
lished and incorporated. Mr. Colnon is ; 
member of the Mercantile Club, St. Loui; 
Club, Field Club, and Engineers' Club o 
St. Louis. In religious belief he is a Cath 
olic, and in politics he is a Democrat. 

Mr. Colnon was married in 1895, in St 
Louis, Mo., to Miss Catherine Fruin. Busi 
ness address, 127 Laclede building; resideno 
address, 6300 Columbian avenue, St. Louis 
]Missouri. 



HARRY STURGEON CROSSEN. 

Harry Sturgeon Crossen. Physician 
Born February 2, 1869, in Appanoose coun 
ty, Iowa. Son of James H. and Sarah A 
(Sturgeon) Crossen. His grandfather, wb 
emigrated from Ohio, was one of the pio 
neers in Iowa, and helped lay the foundatioi 
of the present splendid commonwealth. Hi 
parents died when he was quite young an( 
he was taken into the home of his uncle, R 
S. Morris. Treated as a son, he grew up ii 
the family of Mr.. Morris, received the kind 
est care and the best educational advantage 
in the region of which he lived. He firs 
attended a country school in Iowa, then 
public school at Lincoln, Neb., and complete 
his academic studies at Siloam Spring 
Academy, of Siloam Springs, Ark. Entere 
the St. Louis Medical College in the fall 
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tion in the class of 1892. He at once became 
a member of the hospital corps, beginning 
his practice in the City Hospital of St. Louis. 
At the end of a year he was made senior 
assistant pliysician, and a few months later, 
assistant superintendent of the hospital. He 
served in this capacity until 1895 when he 
was appointed, by Mayor Walbridge, super- 
intendent of the St. Louis Female Hospital, 
a position which he has since served. He is 
a member of the St. Louis Medical Society, 
of the City Hospital Medical Society, and of 
the St. Louis Obstetrical and Gynecological 
Society. His religious affiliations are with 
the Methodist church. 

Dr. Crossen married, in 1895, Miss Mary 
Frances Wright, of Oberlin, Ohio, and they 
have two children, Theodore Sturgeon and 
Ruth Victoria Crossen. Business address, 
260334 Washington avenue, St. Louis, 

Missouri. 

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BEX-JAMIN MURRAY HYPES, M. D. 

Benjamin Murray Hypes, M. D. Born 
at Lebanon, St. Clair county. III, July 31, 
1846. Son of Benjamin and Caroline 
(Murray) Hypes. Dr. Hypes was a very 
brilliant student. He entered McKendree 
College very young, and was duly gradu- 
ated with the degree of A. B., and in 1869 
took the degree of A. M. After holding 
professorships in Arcadia Seminary, Arca- 
dia, Mo., and in the German Methodist Col- 
lege, at Warrenton, Mo., he took up the study 
of medicine and surgery. Attended lectures 
at Rush Medical College, Chicago, and at the 
St. Louis Medical College. In 1872 he re- 
ceived the degree of M. D. from the last 
!iamed institution and was appointed assist- 
mt physician to the St. Louis City Hospital 



After two years he resigned to establish him- 
self in the private general practice. He is a 
member of the St. Louis Medical Society, 
and is president of several well-known organ- 
izations of medical men, and is vice-dean, 
and was one of the founders, of Marion Sims 
Medical College. 

In politics Dr. Hypes is a Republican. He 
is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. Business address, 2005 Victor ave- 
nue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FREDERICK B. BROWNELL. 

Frederick B. Brownell. Manufacturer. 
Born December 20, 1851, in Troy, N. Y. 
Son of Charles and Lucy (Adams) Brow- 
nell. He was educated in the public schools 
of Troy, N. Y., and came to St. Louis when 
he was sixteen years of age. In 1868 Mr. 
Brownell entered the car building establish- 
ment of Daniel R. Hart, to begin a four 
years' apprenticeship under a contract which 
stipulated that his compensation during the 
first year should be five dollars a week, six 
dollars a week the second, seven the third and 
eight dollars a week during the fourth year. 
He began work in the paint shop and his 
first job was to "slush" the inside of an 
omnibus. In two years he was made fore- 
man of the paint shops, and during the third 
and fourth years he was collector, cashier, 
manager, shipping clerk, salesman, corre- 
spondent and superintendent. At the expira- 
tion of his apprenticeship his salary was in- 
creased to a thousand dollars a year, and 
Mr. Wight being kept away from the shops 
by a lingering illness, which culminated in 
his death, Mr. Brownell had entire charge 
of the business. Meantime the establishment 



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was growing into prominence, and the vol- 
ume of its business increasing year by year. 
In 1875 the enterprise was incorporated as 
the Andrew Wight Company, IMr. Wight 
holding nine hundred and thirty-eight shares 
of the stock and the presidency of the corpo- 
ration, and Mr. Brownell sixty shares of 
stock and the vice-presidency. In 1876 Mr. 
Wight died, and Mr. Brownell succeeded 
him as president. In 1879 he purchased the 
stock and plant of the Andrew Wight Com- 
pany, and changed its name to the Brownell 
& Wight Car Company. Later, after pay- 
ing for the plant and stock, he changed the 
name to the Brownell Car Company, and has 
since been owner and manager of one of the 
most famous car building establishments in 
the United States. 

In politics Mr. Brownell is a Republican. 
He was treasurer of the Republican State 
Central Committee from 1892 to 1894, and 
vice-chairman and treasurer from 1894 to 
1896, being re-elected to the last named posi- 
tion to serve from 1896 to 1898. He was a 
delegate to the National Republican Conven- 
tion which met in St. Louis in 1896, and a 
member of the National committee from 
Missouri of the National Republican League 
for the years 1895-97. In 1892 he was 
a candidate for presidential elector on the 
Harrison and Reid ticket, and received the 
largest vote cast for any candidate in St. 
Louis. In 1897 was nominated by acclama- 
tion, in the Republican city convention, for 
president of the St. Louis council, but de- 
clined the nomination. He is a deacon in 
the Second Baptist church of St. Louis, and 
a director of the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation, and was president of the St. Louis 
Sunday School Union during the vej>rs 1895. 
1896 and 1807. A member of the Masonic 
Order, he affiliates with Aurora Lodge, Belle- 



fontaine Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, ani 
St. Aldemar Commandery of Knights Tem 
plar. 

Mr. Brownell was married in 1879 t 
Miss Anna E. Jones, of Indianapolis, Inc 
They have one child, Frances Jones Brow 
nell. Business address: Offices, Browne 
Car Shops, St. Louis, Missouri. 



AUGUST CHARLES BERNAYS. 

August Charles Bernays. Physician an 
surgeon. Born October 13, 1854, in tli 
town of Highland, 111. He is the son of D: 
George J. and Minna (Doering) Bernay: 
Under private instruction he was taught tli 
rudiments of the English language, als 
French and German, at an early age. Whe 
prepared to enter upon his academical stud 
he matriculated at McKendree College, Lei 
anon. 111., from which institution he wi 
graduated in 1872 with degree of Bachelc 
of Arts, at the early age of eighteen. Imm( 
diately after his graduation he was sent t 
Germany where he entered Heidelberg Un 
versity as a student of medicine. Here 1' 
graduated, with high honors, in four 3'ear 
For a short time after he remained in Heide 
berg as assistant house surgeon of the Acac 
emic Hospital. He then took a post-gradual 
course under Baron von Langanbeck at tl 
University of Berlin. From Germany I 
went to England where he passed the exam 
nation and was made a member of the Roy! 
College of Surgeons. He then returned 1 
St. Louis and began the active practice c 
his profession, backed by a training and expi 
rience in his chosen field that few 
any young physicians of that day could boa: 
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ul in his profession. He is untiring in his 
nergy and research. With a steady nerve, 
guided by skillful knowledge, he does not 
esitate to perform the most delicate opera- 
ions known to the human body, and with 
Imost unvarying success. Before he was 
wenty-nine years of age, he was made pro- 
essor of anatomy in the College of Physi- 
ians and Surgeons of St. Louis. He was 
Iter made professor of anatomy and surgical 
lathology in the Marion-Sims College of 
dedicine and Woman's Medical College, 
lesidence address, 3623 Laclede avenue; 
lusiness address, 612-13-14 Missouri Trust 
luilding, St. Louis, Missouri. 



Louis, Mo., to Miss Isabel Chenie. Busi- 
ness address, 112-114 North Second street; 
residence address. No. 9 Lenox Place. 



THO?.L\S PRESTON HALEY, JR. 

Thomas Preston Haley, Jr. Manufact- 
iring chemist. Born in 1861 in Lexington, 
VIo. Son of Thomas Preston and Mary 
[McGarvey) Haley. Acquired his educa- 
:ion in the public schools and St. Louis High 
School. He began his business career as 
:lerk, bookkeeper and salesman, and became 
nterested in the following named companies : 
Peacock Chemical Company, Sultan Drug 
Company. The former incorporated in 1885, 
:he latter in 1889. Of the Peacock Chemical 
lompany, he is now president. Of the Sul- 
:an Drug Company, is now secretary and 
;reasurer. They do a large business in pro- 
prietary medicines and specialties over a very 
arge territory in the United States. Mr. 
Haley, Jr., is a member of the St. Louis 
::ib Gltii Echo Country Club and the 
Missouri Athletic Club. He is a member 
)f the Christian church, and affiliates with 
he Democratic party. 

Mr. Haley was married in 1900, in St. 



CHARLES F. DIETZ. 

Charles F. Dietz, secretary of the Geor- 
gia-Stimson Furniture & Carpet Company. 
Born August 24, 1861 in St. Louis, Mo. 
Son of Charles F. and Johanna (Dermitz) 
Dietz. Educated in the public schools of St. 
Louis and received his business education 
in the Jones' Commercial College. He 
began his business career as a clerk in a 
grocery store, where he served some six years 
in such capacity, and in the commission busi- 
ness ten years. In experience, he had laid 
the foundation of his future career well, and 
on March i, 1903, he became interested in 
the Georgia-Stimson Furniture & Carpet 
Company, and became the secretary of the 
corporation, which position he now holds. 
In religious belief he is a Protestant, and 
affiliates with the Republican party. 

Mr. Dietz was married October 29, 1884, 
in St. Louis, to Miss Lucy M. Schulz. Chil- 
dren : Charles H., Doretha and Lillian Dietz. 
Business address, 616-618 Washington ave- 
nue; residence address, 2616 Tennessee ave- 
nue., St. Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE WARREN BROWN. 

George Warren Brown. Merchant and 
manufacturer. Born in Granville, Washing- 
ton county, N. Y., March 21, 1853. Son 
of David and Malinda (Roblee) Brown. 
Was raised on a farm and received a common 



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school education, supplemented by a course 
at Bryant & Stratton's Business College at 
Troy, N. Y., from which he received his 
diploma in the autumn of 1872, and on the 
loth of April of that year arrived in St. 
Louis, and on May i, 1873, accepted a posi- 
tion with Hamilton & Brown, a wholesale 
shoe house. In less than a year he was sent 
out as a traveling salesman for the house, 
and in less than five years as salesman he 
had to his credit with his house something 
over $7,000, all of which he had saved from 
his earnings. He then resigned his position 
and embarked in the shoe manufacturing 
business, much against the advice of many 
of the most sagacious business men of St. 
Louis. Notwithstanding advice and opin- 
ions, the new manufacturing concern was 
formed in November, 1878, associating with 
him A. L. Bryan and J. B. Desnoyers, with 
the name of Bryan, Brown & Co. Their 
original capital was $12,000, and their first 
workmen were a team of five Rochester men, 
whom they hired in that city, thereby trans- 
planting Rochester shoemaking to this city. 
Their first location was No. 104 South 
Eighth street, which they outgrew in less 
than one year, then secured one floor of the 
Cupples building. Eighth and Walnut streets. 
Success being assured from the start, they 
soon occupied three floors of this building. 
In 1 88 1 this business was incorporated as the 
Bryan-Brown Shoe Company, the first 
wholesale shoe concern to incorporate in St. 
Louis. They added eastern made goods to 
their line, and moved the warerooms and 
office to Seventh and St. Charles streets. In 
1885 Mr. Bryan's health failed and he re- 
tired, when the corporation became known as 
Brown-Desnoyers Shoe Company. Soon 
after this tney moved to No. 805 Washington 
avenue, and since 1890 have occupied the 



finest building of any shoe house in the 
world. In 1893 Mr. Desnoyers retired, and 
the corporation became The Brown Shoe 
Company. Mr. Brown has been president 
ot the corporation since its organization. It 
is now represented by fifty traveling sales- 
men, and the floor space in its buildings is 
between three and four acres, where they 
employ nearly one thousand people. Mr. 
Brown might well feel proud of what he 
has achieved for the shoe business in St. 
Louis. The platform upon which his com- 
pany is building its fast growing trade is, 
"high standard business principles, and every 
man expected to reflect the same idea." 

Mr. Brown is a member of the Methodist 
church, a Mason, and is connected with many 
organizations that stand for the upbuilding 
of the city of his adoption. He has a genial 
disposition, and is ever ready to be of service 
to others. Business address, 805 Washing- 
ton avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS BLACKWELL TOMB. 

Thomas Blackwell Tomb. Real estate 
and live stock investor. Born October 25, 
1840, in Lycoming county. Pa. His father. 
Benjamin, and mother, Ann Leonard, were 
natives of the Keystone State, his maternal 
grandparents being of a well-known Quaker 
family. His father served with the regular 
troops in the defense of his country during 
the war of 1812. Afterward he accumulated 
considerable wealth, and in 1842 removed 
to Tiffin, Seneca county, Ohio, where he be- 
came one of the founders of the Tiffin bank- 
ing house of Arnold & Tomb, afterward 
Tomb, Huss & Company, which was reor- 
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of Tiffin, one of the first national banks, 
which added great financial strength to the 
nation during the Civil war. 

Thomas Blackwell Tomb was the third 
of seven children, five of whom survive and 
occupy prominent positions in business and 
social life. He was educated in the public 
schools until commencing his business ca- 
reer, and at the age of eighteen, when he 
became a clerk in his father's banking house, 
and at twenty-one was junior partner in the 
firm. When the First National Bank o^ 
Tiffin was organized he was made vice-pres- 
ident and acted as assistant cashier. After 
seventeen years of active business life he 
undertook the difiicult task ot organizing, 
capitalizing and managing a companv which 
made a fifth wheel or bent hound, for 
wagons, it being the first invented and put 
on the market. After a successful manage- 
ment of three years he sold his interest to 
engage in the range cattle business, in asso- 
ciation with Benjamin A. and George Sheid- 
ley, of Kansas City, Mo., acting as their 
financial and business manager. In 1883 the 
Sheidley Cattle Company was organized and 
incorporated, the five partners paying in a 
cash capital of $500,000, ]\Ir. Tomb becom- 
ing treasurer and continuing as such until he 
sold his stock in 1896. He became a resi- 
dent of Kansas City in 1884, during the 
boom time, and has since that date had great 
business successes, due to care, energy and 
ample resources. After retiring from the 
Sheidley Cattle Company he became an 
organizer of the firm of Lake, Tomb & Com- 
pany, a corporation of which he became a 
large stockholder, and of which he has been 
president since its organization. This cor- 
poration has large herds and extensive ranges 
in Texas, South Dakota and ilontana, mar- 
keting from 11,000 to 12,000 cattle annu- 



ally, and having an investment of $775,000. 
In 1889 Mr. Tomb became one of the incor- 
porators and president of the Tomb-Winter 
Land Company, of Kansas City, Mo., prom- 
inently identified with the expansion of Kan- 
sas City and the establishment of high values 
for its business and residence properties. 
Mr. Tomb is keenly alert in judgment in bus- 
iness transactions, but is well honored for 
his integrity in his dealings with all. He 
has inspired eastern capitalists with confi- 
dence in Kansas City and western invest- 
ments, and among those placing large 
amounts in his charge for investments has 
been his millionaire cousin, Jacob Tomb, the 
philanthropist, who endowed the Tomb Insti- 
tute at Port Deposit, Md., with an amount 
exceeding five million dollars, besides his 
well known liberal contributions to the gov- 
ernment Indian school at Carlisle, Pa. His 
investments for non-resident capitalists have 
not only afforded them good returns, but 
have aided in the rapid upbuilding of the 
great city whose progress he foresaw and 
advertised, and whose prosperity he has 
shared. He has been liberal in aiding others, 
as well as successful himself, and has espe- 
cially aided young men in business with 
whom he has become acquainted, or who 
have been employed in connection with his 
various enterprises. 

As a member of the Episcopalian church 
he has been a liberal contributor to the erec- 
tion and other funds of Grace Church, which 
he has long served as a vestryman, and he is 
first vice-president of the Church Club of 
Kansas City, Mo. Although not active in 
politics, he is a stanch Republican. He is a 
member of the Commercial Club and actively 
assists in all its movements to increase the 
prosperity of Kansas City. j\Ir. Tomb 
married Miss Maria G. Harbeson, of College 



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Hill, Ohio, October 24, 1872. Mr. Tomb is 
a Mason, being a member of Tiffin (Ohio) 
Lodge, No. T/, Seneca Chapter, R. A. M., 
Tiffin, and Ancient and Accepted Scottish 
Rite, thirty-second degree, Kansas City, 
Missouri. Residence address, 619 East 
Ninth street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM DUNHAM HUDSON. 

William Dunham Hudson. Lawyer. Ed- 
ucated in the public and high school of St. 
Louis, Washington University and Wash- 
ington University Law School, graduating 
in the class of 1893 ^^ the Washington Uni- 
versity with the degree Ph. B., and in the 
class of 1895 of the Washington University 
Law School. After he graduated at the law 
school he was admitted to practice in 
the State and FederaJ courts, and has 
practiced the profession in St. Louis 
ever since, building up a large and 
lucrative business. He is a member of the 
Mercantile Club and Missouri Athletic Club. 
In politics he is a Rejiublican, and active in 
the interst of the partv. Business address. 
801-2 Missouri Trust building; residence ad- 
dress, 4465 Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM S. BROTHERTON. 

William S. Brotherton was born in 1857, 
a son of John and Margaret (King) Broth- 
erton, and educated in the Washington Uni- 
versity. He is a descendant, on the paternal 
line, of Revolutionary soldiers, and also sol- 
diers in the War of 1812. Previous to his 
entering the firm of Giesecke-D'Oench-Hays 



Shoe Company he was in the state auditc 
office and the live-stock business. In ic 
he became interested with the Giesec 
D"Oench-Hays Shoe Company, and at 
date of its incorporation became its treasui 
The incorporated company is composed 
the following members: William D'Oen 
Jr., president; H. S. Brest, vice-preside 
R. B. Grant, secretary and grand audit 
Mr. Brotherton is a member of the J\ 
sonic fraternity.. In religion he is a Protc 
ant, and Democratic in politics. He v 
married October 17, 1889, in Columbia, M 
to Aliss Agnes E. Walker. Two childi 
have been born to this union, Mary c 
Walker Brotherton. Business address, 1 1 
1120 Washington avenue; residence addn 
4561 Morgan street. 



WALTER DREY. 



W^alter Drey. Secretary of the Drey 
Kahn Glass Company. Born June 21, 18 
in St. Louis, I\Io. Son of Adolph D: 
(deceased) and Lizzie (Hellman) Drey, 
was educated in the St. Louis public scho( 
St. Louis High School, University of C 
cago and Cornell University. After acqi 
ing his education he began his business car 
with the Drey & Kahn Glass Company as 
estimater. and was later made the secret; 
of the company. The company, of which 
father was president, and who is now 
ceased, was incorporated in 1898. The or 
inal firm was established in 1867, and for 
erly did a large business in importing gl? 
but owing to the development of the gl 
industry in the L'nited States, the home p 
duction in this line gained the ascendan 
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at the present time. He is a member of the 
Missouri Athletic Club. In religious belief 
he is Jewish, and independent in politics. 
Business address, Eleventh and St. Charles 
streets; residence address, 4543 Westmin- 
ster Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LEO A. DREY. 



Leo A. Drey. Vice-president of the 
Drey & Kahn Glass Company. Born Sep- 
tember 4, 1877, in Stuttgart, Germany. Son 
of Albert and Marie (Morgenstern) Drey. 
He began his business career as clerk of the 
firm of Drey & Kahn, established in 1867, 
and afterwards the firm became the Drey & 
Kahn Glass Company, incorporated in 1898, 
and was at that time elected vice-president. 
Mr. Drey assisted in organizing the Schram 
Automatic Fruit Jar Company, with facto- 
ries in St. Louis and Matthews, Ind. The 
firm of the Drey & Kahn Glass Company are 
jobbers and manufacturers of domesic glass. 
Mr. Drey acquired his education in the pub- 
liclic high schools and university in Dresden, 
Germany. He is a member of the Columbian 
Club, and Triple A Athletic Club. In relig- 
ious belief he is Jewish, and in politics in- 
dependent. Business address. North St. 
Charles street; residence address, Washing- 
ton Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. 



E. PORTER PEERS. 

E. Porter Peers. Lawyer. Born July 
28, 1874, in Warrenton, ]\Io. Son of Charles 
E. and Mary C. (Humphriey) Peers. Edu- 
cated in the common schools and the Central 



Wesleyan College at Warrenton, Mo., and 
the Missouri State University, from which 
latter institution he graduated in 1897. 
Studied law at the Missouri State Univer- 
sity. Admitted to the bar in St. Louis April 
23, 1896, and has practiced his profession in 
St. Louis ever since. He is a general prac- 
titioner. He affiliates with the Democratic 
party. He is a member of the Delmar Ave- 
nue Baptist Church in St. Louis. 

Mr. Peers was married June 2, 1902, in 
St. Louis, to Miss Agnes A. Harris. Busi- 
ness address, 814 Wainwright building; res- 
idence address, 3319 Eads avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 

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WILLIAM T. HAARSTICK. 

William T. Haarstick. Transporation 
official. Born May 1 1, 1865. Son of Henry 
C. and Elise (Hoppe) Haarstick. His edu- 
cational training was obtained in Smith's 
Academy, of St. Louis, and at the Boston 
School of Technology. Soon after leaving 
school he w^as taken into his father's office, 
and under his tutelage was made familiar 
with the details of the business of the St. 
Louis & Mississippi Valley Transportation 
Company, and its methods of operating in 
the grain trade, and soon became his father's 
efficient lieutenant in conducting business 
transactions of large magnitude. In 1894 he 
was elected vice-president of the St. Louis 
& Mississippi Valley Transportation Com- 
pany, and has since ably seconded his father, 
at times taking entire charge of the business 
of that corporation. He has been very sagac- 
ious as an operator on 'change, and a close 
student and unerring judge among the ex- 
tensive traders of the Merchants' Exchange. 



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As vice-president of the St. Louis & Missis- 
sippi Valley Transportation Company he has 
represented his father in all his important 
business transactions for the past several 
years, and he is also a director of the Bank 
of Commerce. He is very popular in both 
business and social circles, and a man of 
large acquaintance and many friendships. 
He is a patron of the fine arts and of music 
and literature. He is one of the ardent and 
enthusiastic young Republicans of St. Louis. 
Residence address, 3300 Russell street, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



ANNA SNEED CAIRNS. 

Anna Sneed Cairns, educator, is a daugh- 
ter of Rev. Samuel K. Sneed, of Louisville, 
Ky., and Rachel Crosby, of Milford, N. H. 
Her father was for fifty- four years a minister 
of the Presbyterian church, and a pillar in tine 
New School branch, which his influence held 
firmly to abolition sentiment, as he had freed 
his own slaves long before the birth of this 
daughter. Though a Whig, he voted for 
James G. Birney, the Free Soil candidate, 
then the third party. Being thus firm in his 
convictions, he was one of the early founders 
and voters of the Republican party. Mrs. 
Cairns' mother was educated by Mary Lyon 
and Miss Grant, in their school at Ipswich, 
from which she was graduated the year that 
Mary Lyon was founding Mt. Holyoke. Her 
mother earned her own education by teach- 
ing school between the different terms, and 
from her mother's early struggles for educa- 
tion came Mrs. Cairns' sympathy for young 
girls who desire education as a vital neces- 
sity, and ha^ not the means to attain it by 
their own unaided efforts. Her mother was 



the great-grandchild of Capt. Josiah Crosb 
who fought at Bunker Hill, with his foi 
sons, and Mrs. Cairns is a member of tl 
society of Daughters of the Revolution. 1 
she came of the noted Crosby family, si 
was descended from a race of teachers, beir 
connected with such men as Alpheus Crosb 
author of the first Greek grammar; D 
Dixey Crosby and Chancellor Crosby, 1 
New York. 

With such an ancestry she inherits fro 
her father the fiery warm blood of Kentuck 
and from her mother the granite rock of Ne 
Hampshire, and she dwells upon this ancesti 
with loving pride. Born in 1841, she w; 
an omnivorous reader at five, at an age whe 
fortunately for her, children's books we 
not. Curled up in her little crib, or perch( 
in one of her favorite seats, way up in tl 
trees, she read Goldsmith's History of Rom 
Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Milton's Par 
dise Lost, D'Aubigne's History of the Refo 
mation, and Robinson Crusoe, until Mart 
Luther, and Brutus, Christian and Christ 
ana, Adam and Eve, and the afifable Arcl 
angel Raphael, and her beloved Robinsc 
Crusoe were as dear to her as Santa Clai 
and Jack the Giant Killer are to others. 

Pier father's theological and historical 1 
brary was strong meat for babes, and we 
can she remember pulling down two larj 
volumes named so attractively Tom I ar 
Tom II, only to find, alas! that they wei 
written in Hebrew, and were not delightfi 
records of boys of that name. 

At seventeen she began her life work ( 
teaching. In 1861, the first year of the wa 
in troublous times, she founded Kirkwoc 
Seminary, without a dollar in money, witl 
out a foot of ground, without a stick c 
school furniture, and with seven scholars. '. 
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ferred, in 1S91, to St. Louis, and was then 
re-incorporated as Forest Park University 
for Women, a school which is the outgrowth 
of all her life and thought, and is the true 
exponent of herself. 

Besides her school, Mrs. Cairns has had a 
deep interest in many other directions. Mis- 
sionary work has always had a warm place 
in her heart. 

After the Centennial of 1876 she re- 
sumed her long-neglected study of painting 
and drawing. She became deeply interested 
in the effort that Mrs. John B. Henderson 
made to establish a school of design in St. 
Louis, attended its sessions on Saturday, and 
studied so faithfully that she filled her side- 
boards and mantelpieces with beautiful dishes 
and plaques, the work of her own hands. 
Then she became interested in wood carving, 
and carved the beautiful mantel in black 
walnut which is in her private parlor, and 
which has so many suggestive scenes from 
the life of her ancestors, and is so rich in 
precioT-is memories of the past. This mantel 
has attracted so much attention that it has 
been many times written of in the papers. 
After giving her leisure time for several 
years to painting and drawing, the hand of 
Providence led her into total-abstinence and 
prohibition work. She united with the 
Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and 
was instrumental, with Mrs. H. H. Wag- 
goner, the first president of the St. Louis W. 
C. T. U., in reviving this work very greatly 
in the city. Mrs. Governor Thomas C. 
Fletcher was elected its efficient president, 
and very much was accomplished. Gospel 
temperance meetings were held in all the 
churches, presided over by the leading min- 
isters of St. Louis. The Prohibitionists were 
making an effort to secure the submission of 
a constitutional amendement to the people of 



Missouri, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, 
importation and exportation of all intoxi- 
cants, including beer and cider. Miss Frances 
Willard, the great national president of the 
W. C. T. U., was invited to address the Leg- 
islature on the subject. Dr. ETliot, the distin- 
guished chancellor of Washington Univer- 
sity, and pastor of the Church of the Messiah, 
was a very active Prohibitionist, having been 
made so by his efforts to suppress Uhrig's 
Cave and drive it away from the vicinity of 
Mary Institute and the resident portion of 
the city. Dr. Eliot was determined to find 
some one in the W. C. T. U. of St. Louis 
who would go up to Jefferson "City and plead 
for the amendment with Miss Willard. Mrs. 
Cairns readily oft'ered to find some one, but 
Dr. Eliot insisted that it was her duty. Mrs. 
Cairns steadily declined, on the plea that she 
had never spoken in public. She searched St. 
Louis and Kirkwood thoroughly, but could 
find no woman brave enough to take her 
stand by Miss Willard's side. Dr. Eliot laid 
it before her that it was her own duty to go, 
and on her again refusing, he said : "What, 
must a woman from Illinois be the only one 
to plead for prohibition in Missouri? Is 
there no Missouri woman that will stand by 
her side and plead for her own State?" Then 
Mrs. Cairns gave a reluctant consent. It 
was found that the Legislature had not had 
the grace to wait to hear the ladies argue 
the point, but had decided it against them 
before they came. Dr. Eliot insisted that the 
ladies should then work to have an- 
other amendment for prohibition introduced. 
When they arrived in Jefferson City the Rev. 
Dr. Palmore, now of the St. Louis Christian 
Advocate, was the only minister in Jefferson 
City brave enough to meet them at the depot 
and escort these advocates of an unpopular 
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they urged the minority, who had so boldly 
made the fight for prohibition, to renew it 
by introducing another constitutional amend- 
ment, but not a man would dare to do it. 
UTrU r the dispiriting circumstances they went 
to the House of Representatives that night. 
They found it crowded to its utmost capacity. 
Mrs. Cairns was to make the opening speech, 
which she had written laborously and faith- 
fully to defend an amendement now already 
dead and buried. Never was a more embar- 
rassing position for a maiden speech. To 
relieve her embarrassment she told them a 
little story of a young minister, with his first 
sermon to be delivered in June, and he 
thought the beauty of a summer day, fresh 
from the hand of God, would be a delightful 
subject for his first sermon. The day came, 
a pelting, cheerless, windy and terrible day, 
but the minister had but one sermon, and he 
preached it anyhow, no matter how much the 
eastern wind and rain might pour down. 
"So," said Mrs. Cairns, "we have but one 
sermon, and that is prohibition. We have 
nailed the flag to the mast, and we will never 
pull it down." She was followed by Miss 
Willard, that silver-tongued orator, whose 
persuasive, wondrous power no one that has 
heard her can ever forget, and as a result of 
that evening, they rallied the dispirited forces 
of prohibition, and another constitutional 
amendment was introduced the next morn- 
ing by those who had utterly declined to do 
so the evening before. She was appointed 
legislative superintendent of the ^lissouri 
State W. C. T. U., an office which she filled 
for seven years. Her sister, Mrs. Harriet 
\\'orthington, was made superintendent of 
scientific instruction, and under the heroic 
leadership of these two sisters the Scientific 
Temperance I/iw of Missouri was gained. 
Then came the six years" struggle for the 



submission of a prohibition amendment t( 
the people of Missouri. 

Year after year she gathered petitions 
only to go to the Legislature and be defeated 
In the meantime, through the kindness of th 
late William C. Wilson, prohibition literatur 
and submission petitions were scattered al 
over the state. The W. C. T. U. in ever 
county were instructed to interview ever 
candidate for the Legislature, to secure f ron 
him a written pledge that he would vote fo 
the submission of the prohibition amendmen 
to the peoj)le of Missouri, and to concentrati 
the religious and temperance people on th' 
candidate who would thus pledge himself 
As a result of these labors, when the Legisla 
ture of 1887 convened there was a clear ma 
jority in both houses for the submission 
Then the great fight began. ]\Irs. Cairn 
went upon the opening day, and put in he 
amendment as the first bill of the session 
Every morning, after the morning prayer 
the petitions were presented in both Senati 
and House from every county in the state 
The work of gathering petitions was con 
tinned ceaselessly in every county. If ; 
member seemed to be faltering, his friend! 
at home were written to, great meetings wen 
held, resolutions adopted and sent to him 
Committees were sent to Jefferson City fron 
every city. The fight lasted five weeks, anc 
all the time the petitions fell in the SenaK 
and House every morning. On Friday night 
when school closed, Mrs. Cairns would sli[ 
up to Jefferson City, and find the stalwart 
brave, unflinching farmers, ministers, law- 
yers and judges that were pledged to prohi- 
bition. She would hold caucuses with the 
nolile hand of eighty-two men who wen 
standing by their guns so firmly. Then Sat- 
urday they would push the cause along a step 
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meeting in the Hall of Representatives, and, 
perhaps, Saturday evening she would address 
members of the Legislature, and speak to 
crowded houses. The position was an in- 
vincible one, that the people of Missouri had 
a right to have anything submitted to them 
for their decision, that the people were the 
source and fountain of all power, and that, 
as thirty-five thousand of her best citizens 
had publicly petitioned the Legislature to 
submit the question of prohibition to their 
decision, the Legislature should undoubtedly 
do so. F nally came the decisive day in the 
House ; after many great skirimshes, all the 
forces were gathered, the numbers were 
counted and one man was missing. He was 
found in a drunken sleep in his hotel, but the 
messenger that was sent for him assured him 
that Mrs. Cairns said he was to bring him, 
alive or dead. Not one of her forces was to 
stay in the grip of the enemy, but all were 
mustered. The battle raged all day, substi- 
tutes, amendments, resolutions to table, were 
all voted down; impassioned speeches were 
made by the liquor men, but the submission- 
ists followed the plan ably laid down by 
^Irs. Cairns to say nothing and vote solidly. 
Mrs. Cairns tallied every vote of the eleven 
different times that the votes were taken that 
day, and when the last vote was taken there 
were the eighty-two votes solid for submit- 
ting prohibition to the choice of the people 
of Missouri. Mrs. Cairns, generaling the 
submission forces to this victory, had accom- 
plshed what no man or woman before, nor, 
alas ! since has done. She had persuaded the 
Msssouri House of Representatives to vote, 
by an overwhelming majority, for the sub- 
mission of a prohibition amendement to the 
people. But the Senate defeated the pro- 
posed amendment and prevented it from 
going before the people. 



With this deep interest in politics, civics, 
and with her business interests, it goes with- 
out saying, that Mrs. Cairns has favored 
equal suffrage for women. Herself a tax- 
payer, she has felt the injustice of having no 
voice as to what should be done with her 
money, and who should represent her in both 
the State Legislature and in Congress. 

In the winter of 1897 she introduced a 
constitutional amendment into the Legisla- 
ture to strike out the word male from the 
constitution, and made an impassioned appeal 
in the Senate Chamber at Jefferson City in 
its favor. She has also been interested in 
having women as school directors and super- 
intendents throughout Missouri. She, with 
her sister, ]\Irs. Harriet Worthington, repre- 
sented the Forest Park University Alumnae 
Association at the Biennial Conference of 
Women's Clubs in Denver, in June, 1898, 
where she spoke in one of the churches on 
the Sabbath, and more recently has been in- 
terested in temperance work among the sol- 
diers of Jefferson Barracks. But all of this 
is but the play of a mind and heart whose 
life work is found in Forest Park University. 
As long as this building, and the university 
within its walls, remains the pride of St. 
Louis, it will be her monument, as it is her 
life work. 

In the first eight years after she planted 
it in St. Louis she took no salary whatever 
from the proceeds of the school. 

\\lien she went down into the business 
part of St. Louis, for these years, she would 
not spend upon herself even the amount of a 
meager lunch, because the university, with all 
its great needs has tugged at her heart 
strings as well, and she has always seen ten 
places where she could put each particular 
cent. She has looked upon herself as simply 
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labor and economy and business management 
of her whole life might build up a lasting 
university for women in the Empire City of 
the great southwest. Residence address, 
Forest Park University. 



CAPT. E. \V. STEVENS. 

Capt. E. W. Stevens. Among the fore- 
most citizens of Sedalia, and indeed of the 
state, is the above named gentleman, who is 
now engaged as a liverj'man, stockbuyer and 
auctioneer on South Osage street. Captain 
Stevens was born in the famous old town of 
Weston, Platte county. Mo. His father was 
extensively engaged in the mercantile Inisi- 
ness there, and also conducted a large farm 
nearby. He owned 175 negroes, all of whom 
were lost, without a cent of renumeration, by 
the emancipation proclamation in 1863. The 
elder Stevens was later engaged in merchan- 
dizing at Parkville, IMo., his firm doing a 
big business with the Wyandotte, Shawnee 
and Delaware Indians across the Missouri 
river, on the Kansas side. The Indians 
made their trips back and forth in skiffs 
and canoes. Later still, Mr. Stevens resided 
in Kansas City, Mo., and owned large tracts 
of land there. It was in J^ickson county that 
Captain Stevens earned his military title. A 
company of young confederates was organ- 
ized there, and he was elected to command 
it. Many of the members of this company 
were killed in battle, and but six are now 
surviving. From Kansas City Captain Ste- 
vens went to St. Louis and, after engaging in 
the horse and mule liusiness there for a time, 
he came to Sedalia about twenty-eight years 
ago. Here \t0 continued in the mule trade, 
his firm handling more mules than any other 



in the state. During the season several hur 
dred were shipped out monthly, large nurr 
bers of them to the great southwest. 

Captain Stevens served six years a 
mayor of Sedalia, his first election occurrin 
in 1 886 — the year of the great railroa 
strike. Traffic had become suspended, trair 
were tied up and lawlessness was rife. Th 
captain was one of the originators of th 
famous Law and Order Club, and became il 
president. His work in helping to break tli 
strike and restore business to its normal cor 
dition made him one of the most popuk 
men in the city. His administrations ai 
still regarded as among the best Sedalia hi 
ever had. For many years he was at tl 
head of the Pettis County Fair, when th; 
institution enjoyed a great reputation. / 
present he is extensively engaged in the liver 
business and in buying and selling mules an 
high-grade horses, the latter of which I 
ships south. Business address, 209 Sout 
Osage street; residence address, 210 Sout 
Ouincv treet, Sedalia, Missouri. 



JOHN DONOVAN. 



John Donovan, vice-president and gei 
era! manager of the St. Joseph Stock Yarc 
Company, was born July 28, 1854, at Easto: 
Talbot county, Md., and is a son of John ar 
Evelina AI. (Robinson) Donovan. 

Mr. Donovan was educated in the con 
mon schools of the ^Maryland town where 1 
spent his boyhood days, and in the gramm; 
schools of Baltimore. He entered upon h 
active business career in the winter of 186! 
when he secured employment as errand be 
in the shoe store of W. T. Stone, of S 
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this city. Later lie worked for the Hannibal 
& St. Joseph Raih-oad Company as clerk, and 
then entered the employ of the contracting 
firm of Hastings & Saxton, buying ties and 
equipment for the St. Joseph & Denver City 
railroad, now known as the St. Joseph & 
Grand Island railway. His next position was 
with the Northern Kansas Land & Town 
Company, his duties being such as arose in 
the company's work of laying out towns 
the route of the present St. Joseph & Grand 
Island railway. In the spring of 1871 Mr. 
Donovan began buying cattle in northwest- 
ern Missouri, and drove the animals to Mary- 
ville and vicinity, where they were sold to 
tlie farmers. On May 17th of that year, 
after having had a varied experience for one 
of his years, and having profited by the prac- 
tical tests through which he had passed, he 
laid the foundations for a more substantial 
and lasting part of his business career by 
entering the State National Bank of St. 
Joseph, in the capacity of messenger. He 
remained in that bank exactly nineteen 
years. When he left it in May, 1881, he had 
attained a position of regponsibility, and had 
won the esteem of his associates, his superi- 
ors and of all who had dealings with that 
institution. He gave up his position in the 
bank to take the management of the Hemp- 
hill County Cattle Company, an enterprise 
in Hemphill county, Texas, projected by 
prominent St. Joseph capitalists. The com- 
pany sold out in 1881, and Mr. Donovan 
then purchased the land on which the St. 
Joseph stock yards now stand. The ground 
was then flat and wet, and the new owner 
inaugurated the necessary work of ditching, 
draining and reclaiming the land from its 
useless swampy condition. The debt of grat- 
itude which the people of the city owe to 
Mr. Donovan, and which they are free to 



recognize in every possible way, is best 
known when it is said that through this man 
the kings of the packing world were induced 
to erect immense plants at South St. Joseph, 
and that on the land which Mr. Donovan 
reclaimed there now stands the most modern 
packing houses and the handsomest Live 
Stock Exchange building in the world, as 
well as acres of sheds for the shelter of thous- 
ands of head of cattle, hogs and sheep 
shipped from the broad grazing fields of the 
western states. Mr. Donovan was the 
founder of the German-American Bank of 
St. Joseph, one of the soundest financial in- 
stitutions of the city, and was its first presi- 
dent, serving from its inception until July i, 
1893. Prior to that time Mr. Donovan had 
been connected with the stock yards as a 
director in the company at the head of the 
St. Joseph live stock market, the organization 
having begun its existence in 1884. On 
July I, 1893, he took active charge of the 
afifairs of the Stock Yards Company, and is 
now vice-president and general manager, 

Mr. Donovan's military experience had 
its beginning when he assisted in the organ- 
ization of the Saxton Rifles, of St. Josech, 
being elected first lieutenant. Afterward a 
battalion was formed under the same name, 
and he was elected captain of Company A, 
and afterward promoted to the rank of 
major, commanding the battalion, but re- 
signed when he went to Texas. He was one 
of the first members of the Board of Police 
Commissioners of St. Joseph, under appoint- 
ment by Governor Marmaduke, when the 
metropolitan police system was established in 
this city, and served five and a half years. 
He was one of the organizers of the force 
under the new system, and performed good 
service in establishing a force that for effi- 
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celled. He has held to the Democratic faith 
since he arrived at the age of majority. 

On October 5, 1875, Mr. Donovan was 
united in wedlock with Emma C. Patee, of 
St. Joseph, and they have one daughter, 
Emma. The family are members of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church at St. Joseph. 
Business address, stock yards ; residence ad- 
dress, 509 North Fifth street, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 



ALONZO CHRISTY CHURCH. 

Alonzo Christy Church, lawyer, who has 
been the representative of important property 
interests in St. Louis since his early man- 
hood, and who belongs to the younger class 
of business men, now most active in advanc- 
ing the interests of the city, was born at 
Fort Wichita, then in the Indian Territory, 
November 3, 1859. His father was then 
stationed at Fort Wichita, and was an officer 
in the United States army at that time, and 
later served with distinction in the Confeder- 
ate army until his death in 1862. His great- 
great-grandfather. Col. Timothy Church, 
and his great-grandfather, Reuben Church, 
both served in the same regiment of militia 
from Cumberland county, N. Y., during the 
Revolutionary war, the one as lieutenant-col- 
onel, commandant of the regiment, and the 
other beginning as lieutenant in his father's 
regiment in 1782, the seventh year of our 
independence. Alonzo Church, the grand- 
father of Alonzo C. Church, who was a 
Presbyterian doctor of divinity, was at one 
time president of the State University of 
Georgia. Mr. Church's motlier, who some 
years after the death of her husband, Col. 
John Reuben Church, became Mrs. M. F. 
Scanlan, and whose charms of person and 



womanly graces have made her one of the 
social leaders of St. Louis, has been written 
of at length elsewhere in these volumes, and 
in that connection mention has been made 
of the notable Jarrot and Christy families, 
from which Mr. Church is descended in this 
line. His education began in the Christian 
Brothers' College, of St. Louis, and later 
he went abroad with his mother and spent 
some time in school in France and Germany, 
where he acquired, among other accomplish- 
ments, a thorough knowledge of the French 
and German languages. Returning then to 
St. Louis he matriculated in the St. Louis 
University, and was graduated from that 
institution in the class of 1880. Immediately 
after completing his college course he studied 
law at the St. Louis Law School, and was 
admitted to the bar in 1882. The responsi- 
blity of caring for his mother's estate and 
managing her property interests devolved 
upon him as soon as he attained his majority, 
and as a result he became almost immediately 
officially connected with several of the lead- 
ing corporations of St. Louis. For several 
years he has been a director and vice-presi- 
dent of the \\'iggins-Ferry Company, the St. 
Louis Transfer Railway Company and the 
East St. Louis Connecting Railway Com- 
pany. He is connected professionally, as 
well as officially, with these corporations as 
their counsel. He is a member of the St. 
Louis Club, the University Club and the 
Noonday Club. A Democrat by inheritance 
and conviction, he has from time to time 
taken an active interest in political cam- 
paigns, and in 1890 was elected to the Mis- 
souri Legislature, of which body he was an 
able and useful member. 

June 25, 1895. i\Ir. Church married Miss 
Carlota Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
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>reat-grand-niece of Gen. George Rogers 
riark, whose brilliant achievements won a 
■ast territory for the United States, extend- 
ng its western boundary from the Allegha- 
lies to the Mississippi. She is a great-grand- 
laughter of Gen. William Clark, of "Lewis 
md Clark Expedition fame, and later gov- 
■rnor of the Territory of Missouri from 1813 
mtil the state was admitted to the Union. 
n the maternal line Mrs. Church is a great- 
^rand-daughter of Col. Auguste Chouteau, 
he real founder of St. Louis, a sketch of 
vhose life will be found in these volumes, 
iud whose portrait constitutes the frontis- 
)iece of the first volume. Mr. and Mrs. 
Ihurch have one child, a daughter three 
•ears of age, who is named Marie Christy 
Jhurch. Business address, 319 North 
"ourth street ; residence address, 4 Lennox 
i'lace, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ROBERT WALTER FREY. 

Robert Walter Frey. Secretary of the 
31ees Carriage Company. Born August 13, 
Syy, in Washington, D. C. Son of Robert 
I. and Emma Louise (Wilson) Frey. Edu- 
ated in the public school, Washington, D. 
1, and graduate of the Washington High 
School, class of 1895. 

Mr. Frey began his career as a bank 
lerk in the American Security & Trust Com- 
pany, Washington, D. C. He removed to 
lacon, Mo., July 5, 1897, and was elected 
1 that year secretary of the Blees Carriage 
:ompany, composed of the following- offi- 
lals : F. W. Blees, president and treasurer ; 
>■ B. Breed, vice-president and general 
lanager; R. W. Frey, secretary. In- 
3rporated in 1897. Manufacturers of 



pleasure and business vehicles, operating ex- 
tensively in this line over a large territory in 
the United States. Mr. Frey is also secretary 
of the Macon Shear Company; secretary of 
the Northwestern E. H. & P. Co., and direc- 
tor in the Macon Building & Loan Associa- 
tion. He affiliates with the Republican party, 
and in religious belief he is a Presbyterian,, 
and belongs to the Macon Club. 

Mr. Frey was married September 22, 
1904, to Miss Ada Louise Davis, in St. 
Louis, Mo. Business and residence address, 
Macon, Missouri. 



WRIGHT MITCHEL POWELL. 

Wright Mitchel Powell. Engineer. Born 
September 20, 1842, in Wheeling, W. Va. 
Son of Thomas Jefferson and Mary Holland 
(Pernell) Powell. His uncle, John Pernell, 
of Snowhill, Md., was an officer in the navy 
in the War of 1812. 

Wright Mitchel Powell was educated in 
the Fourth ward of Wheeling, W. Va., and 
attended McDowell Medical College two 
terms, 1866-68. In early life he was a 
blacksmith apprentice, preparatory to learn- 
ing engineering, which he followed from 
i860 to the present time. He organ- 
ized the Powell Engineering Supply Com- 
pany May I, 1902, incorporated the same 
year, composed of the directory of Wright 
M. Powell, Charles N. Tenteberg, William 
C. Thrasher, Hy Wortman and Ed. Francis. 
At the date of its organization W. M. 
Powell became the president. Mr. Powell 
was in the United States service in 1861, 
and served as engineer on a United States 
transport on the Mississippi river and its 
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a member of Bellefontaine Lodge of Odd 
Fellows since 1866; Good Hope Lodge 
218, A. F. & A. M., since 1875; Temple 
Chapter and St. Louis Commandery No. i ; 
Pearl Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor ; 
Brotherhood of Stationary Engineers. 

Mr. Powell was married August 7, 1876, 
in St. Louis, ]\Io., to Miss Mary Kocian. 
Children : Irene, Laura, Bertha, Edward, 
Hunter and Emma. Business address, 400 
North Second street ; residence address, 7304 
Virginia avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ROBERT H. FAUCETT. 

Robert H. Faucett, president of the R. 
H. Faucett ISIill Company, one of the most 
important industries of St. Joseph, was born 
in County Queens, Ireland, in August, 1835, 
and is a son of Robert and Ann (Malackey) 
Faucett. 

Mr. Faucett came to the United States 
in young manhood. His success in life is 
but one of many examples of the inherent 
strength of the Irish character, and of the 
certain rewards which wait upon persistent, 
intelligent efifort. While more fortunate 
boys were at school, Mr. Faucett was earn- 
ing his own living. From his father he had 
learned the principles of the milling business, 
and he acquired also a knowledge of the car- 
penter's trade, and, when these crafts failed 
him, he found other means to secure an hon- 
est existence. 

In 1858 Mr. Faucett came to St. Joseph, 
Mo., and in 1863 he purchased a part interest 
in the E. M. Davidson mill. Two years 
later, in connection with his brother-in-law% 
the late Judge Fer^ll, he built the Eagle 
mills, of Halleck, Mo. In 1868 he bought 



his partner's interest, and rebuilt and en- 
larged the plant, making it the largest in the 
county. It was a paying property until de- 
stroyed by fire in Jul}-, 1881. In 1875 he 
leased the old Kerchival mills, in St. Joseph, 
remodeled them, and made them also a pay- 
ing property. In 1879 he became owner 
of the Phoenix mills, of Platte City, which 
he handled successfully until he disposed of 
them in 1S89. In 1882, in connection with 
the late R. T. Davis and others, he formed 
a company and built in St. Joseph what is 
now known as the R. T. Davis mill. The 
company was capitalized for $100,000, the 
old firm of R. H. Faucett & Company hold- 
ing a majority of the stock. Mr. Faucett 
was made president and general manager of 
the company, and managed the mill until the 
company sold the stock in the fall of 1884, 
receiving fifty per cent premium on the same. 
Mr. Faucett then bought the Eagle Milling 
Company plant, rebuilt the mill and changed 
the name to the R. H. Faucett Company, 
increasing the capital from $30,000 to 
$50,000. Perhaps no man on the Missouri 
river has been more successful in the milling 
business than has Robert H. Faucett. He 
has not by an means confined himself to 
flouring mills exclusively, but has also been 
largely interested in saw mills and in the 
lumber business, and is today one of the 
largest owners of farm lands and real estate 
in St. Joseph. 

On October 6, 1859, Robert H. Faucett 
was married to Elizabeth Baker, who was 
born in Buchanan county, August 20, 1841. 
Both Mr. Faucett and wife are in the enjoy- 
ment of perfect health. They have four chil- 
dren living. Although Mr. Faucett has so 
long been prominent as a citizen of St. 
Joseph, he never has had any political aspira- 
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office. In politics he was always in close 
sympathy with the Democratic party until 
the agitation concerning free silver brought 
out a candidate he could not consistently fol- 
low. However, his sympathies still lean to- 
w-ards old affiliations, especially so since the 
best leaders of the old party are free to admit 
that a mistake had been made. The Odd 
Fellows is the only fraternal order to which 
he ever belonged. Mr. Faucett and his entire 
family are members of the Cumberland Pres- 
byterian Church. Mr. Faucett's uprightness 
of character and genial manner in business 
has brought him many personal friends. 
Business address, Seventh street, northeast 
corner of Olive, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



JUDGE O. E. PARSONS. 

Orlando Edward Parsons, judge of the 
Probate court of Pettis county, Mo., is a 
native of Forestville, Chautauqua county, 
N. Y., where he was born April 22, 1842. 
His grandfather was born in Ireland. He 
served as a major in the Mexican war. Dan- 
iel W. Parsons, father of Judge Parsons, 
was a captain in the New York State Militia. 
His wife was a daughter of Daniel Dickin- 
son, of Troy, N. Y., who erected many of the 
light houses and .beacons along the northern 
lakes. Judge Parsons received his education 
principally at the Forestville Academy, and 
at Bryant & Stratton's Business College in 
Buffalo, N. Y., from which he was graduated. 
His first employment was upon the street 
railways of Buffalo, and then as brakeman 
on the Erie railroad. In 1863 he went to 
Nashville, Tenn., as conductor on a military 
railroad, where he remained until the close 
of the war. After a successful season spent 



in the Pennsylvania oil fields, he returned to 
railroad work. Until March, 1872, he was 
a conductor on the Lehigh Valley railroad. 
Subsequently he acted, consecutively, as 
yardmaster of the Albany & Susquehanna 
railroad at Ninevah Junction, N. Y., yard- 
master of the same road at Albany, and con- 
ductor on that road. 

Since 1878 Judge Parsons has been a res- 
ident of Sedalia. Up to the autumn of 1895, 
with the exception of an interval during 
which he was engaged in freighting and as a 
conductor on the Wabash railway, he was 
connected with the Missouri, Kansas & 
Texas railway in various capacities. Sep- 
tember 23, 1895, 1^^ lost an arm by being run 
over by a train. After his recovery he en- 
gaged for a time in the insurance business. 
In the fall of 1898 he was elected probate 
judge of Pettis county, as a Democrat, run- 
ning considerably ahead of his ticket. 

Fraternally, Judge Parsons is connected 
with the Knights of Pythias, the Benevolent 
and Protective Order of Elks, the Odd Fel- 
lows and the Knights of Honor. He is also 
one of the oldest members of the Order of 
Railway Conductors west of the Mississippi 
river, and is a vestryman in the Episcopal 
Church. He never read a law book until 
elected to his present position, but none of 
his decisions have been reversed, though sev- 
eral appeals have been taken. Not only has 
he been eminently successful in the conduct 
of his office, but he has taken an active part 
in the advancement of the cause of labor and 
is recognized as a prudent counselor. One 
secret of his influence is that he has invaria- 
bly pursued a conservative course in arbi- 
trating differences arising between capital 
and labor. As a citizen of Sedalia, he has 
always worked for the material and moral 
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potential in securing the Missouri Pacific 
shops. In the matter of helping the worthy 
and deserving his charities have been numer- 
ous, though unostentatious. Business ad- 
dress, court house; residence address, 416 
East Sixth street, Sedalia, Missouri. 



FREDERICK NEWTON JUDSON. 

Frederick Newton Judson. Lawyer. 
Born in St. Clary's, Georgia, October 7, 
1845. Son of Dr. Frederick J. and Cath- 
erine (Chapelle) Judson. Having mastered 
preparatory courses Mr. Judson entered Yale 
College in 1862 was awarded the Woolse> 
and British scholarships, and was graduated 
as valedictorian of his class in 1866. \Miile 
teaching the classes at New Haven, Conn., 
and at Nashville, Tenn., he read law and 
entered the senior class at Washington Uni- 
versity, and in 1871 was graduated from that 
institution with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. He began the practice of his profes- 
sion at St. Louis immediately after his ad- 
mission to the bar. In 1871-73 he was pri- 
vate secretary to Governor B. Gratz Brown. 
In 1878-82 and in 1887-89 he was a member 
of the Board of Public Schools of St. Louis, 
and in 1880-82 and 1887-89 was its presi- 
dent. He was the author of the law of 1879 
making the school land of St. Louis the basis 
of a permanent school fund, and of the act 
of 1887, under which the city school board 
was reorganized. Was a member of the 
citizens' non-partisan committee which, in 
1895, procured the passage of the election 
laws of St. Louis: was chairman of the bar 
association committee, and was chairman of 
the Civic Federatiow' committee which pre- 
pared the act of 1897, under which the pres- 



ent board of education was organized. He 
is a lecturer on constitutional law in the St. 
Louis Law School. He is a Democrat in 
politics. Among his many addresses deliv- 
ered at different times, the following have 
been favorably commented on : "What Shall 
the State Teach," "The Rights of Minority 
Stockholders in Missouri," "The Realization 
of the State to Private Business Associa- 
tions," "The Liberty of Contract Under 
Power," "Justice in Taxation as a Remedy 
for Social Discontent," "Taxation of Quasi- 
Public Corporations." In 1901 was chair- 
man of the National Conference on Taxa- 
tion. Is the author of a treatise on the "Law 
and Practice of Taxation in Missouri ;" also 
of "Power of Taxation, State and Federal, 
in the United States," and the "Law of Inter- 
state Commerce." 

In 1872 Mr. Judson married Miss Jennie 
W. Eakin, of Nashville, Tenn., and they 
have one child, a daughter, the wife of 
Gouveneur Calhoun, of St. Louis. 



WILLIA:\I D. STEELE. 

William D. Steele. Lawver. Among the 
lawyers at the Sedalia bar Mr. William D. 
Steele holds a conspicuous place, and to say 
this is equivolent to saying, also, that his 
name is familiar in many parts of Missouri — 
and that he is recognized as one of the lead- 
ing attorneys of the state. Mr. Steele was 
born in Henry county, Mo., and is descended 
from American Revolutionary ancestry 
through both his father and mother, the lat- 
ter tracing her lineage back to the Washing- 
ton family. After attending the St. Louis 
school in 1878-79, Mr. Steele came to Seda- 
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in which he has been so eminently successful. 
He has also had much experience as a legis- 
lator, having been elected in 1885, to the 
Thirty-third Missouri General Assembly, in 
which body he was honored with the appoint- 
ment of chairman of the committee on crim- 
inal jurisprudence. In 1896 he was elected 
prosecuting attorney of Pettis county and 
served four years, ably discharging the duties 
of his of^ce and establishing a splendid and 
permanent reputation. Mr. Steele has al- 
ways been quite active in political campaigns, 
and has taken a prominent part in local and 
state campaigns. He has a beautiful country 
home, two miles north of Sedalia, where he 
delights in rural recreation and where he and 
his accomplished wife dispense a charming 
hospitality. Business address, 105 Katy 
building; residence address, 229 South Ken- 
tucky street, Sedalia, Missouri. 



JACOB FRIEDMAN. 

Jacob Friedman. Born June 26, 1838, in 
Reckendorf, Germany. Son of Leo and 
Bertha (Stein) Friedman. Educated at 
Reckendorf, Germany. The business estab- 
lished early in 1854 by Mr. Friedman, has 
been conducted under the style of Friedman 
Brothers & Shafer, and the name of the pres- 
ent company, Friedman Brothers' Shoe Com- 
pany, incorporated in 1898. The business 
was originally in Philadelphia, afterwards in 
Indianapolis, then in Memphis, and Boston, 
and since 1891 only in St. Louis, Mo. The 
following members compose the incorporated 
company : Jacob Friedman, president ; Isaac 
Friedman, vice-president ; A. Friedman, sec- 
retary and treasurer. The company are 
wholesale manufacturers and jobbers of 



boots, shoes and rubbers, and they supply 
the trade over a large territory in the west 
and southwest. Mr. Friedman is a member 
of the Mercantile and Columbian clubs. He 
is Jewish in religious belief. 

Mr. Friedman was married May 11, 
1870, in Memphis, Tenn., to Miss Hannah 
Lenbree. Children born : Hester Friedman, 
Mrs. G. M. Hollstein, Mrs. D. A. Ellis, Mrs. 
M. D. Abrams and Mrs. Franklin Berwin. 
Business address. Ninth and Washington 
avenue; residence address, 4449 Pine street. 



HENRY LAMM. 



Henry Lamm, supreme judge, and 
junior member of the law firm of Sangree 
& Lamm, of Sedalia, Mo., was born Decem- 
ber 3, 1846, on a farm near Bridgeport (now 
Burbank), Wayne county, Ohio. He is of 
Pennsylvania German parentage. His an- 
cestors came from the Rhine province during 
the religious wars there and settled in Berks 
county. Pa., long before the Revolutionary 
war. After receiving a rudimentary educa- 
tion in the district school young Lamm at- 
tended an academy at Canaan Center, in his 
native county, and at the age of sixteen years 
went to Western College, at Western, Lynn 
county, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He re- 
mained there two years and then entered as 
a freshman in the academic department at 
Michigan University in the class of 1865, 
graduating therefrom four years later, and 
coming at once to Sedalia. In 1869-70 he 
studied law and taught a country school at 
Maplewood, Pettis county. In the latter 
year he was appointed, by R. H. Moses, 
deputy county clerk. In 1871 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar, and ran for prosecuting 



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attorney in 1872, but was defeated by Frank 
Houston. In 1873 he was appointed circuit 
clerk by Governor Silas Woodson, to succeed 
Captain Kent. In 1884 he was elected prose- 
cuting attorney, and again in 1886. He was 
presiding officer of the Republican State 
Convention in 1888, a delegate to the 
Republican National Convention in 1892, 
a candidate for the supreme bench on 
the Republican ticket, in 1902, and re- 
ceived the nomination for the same office 
this year ( 1904 despite his own protest. Bus- 
iness address, Capitol building, Jefferson 
City, Mo. ; residence address, 303 South 
Osage street, Sedalia, Missouri. 



RICHARD H. KEITH. 

Richard H. Keith, president of the Cen- 
tral Coal & Coke Company, was Ijorn in 
Lafayette county. Mo., May 23, 1842, and 
was there reared and educated. He attended 
jMasonic College at Lexington, around which 
occurred a great battle in which he partici- 
pated. 

In June, 186 1, almost at the sound of the 
first gun, young Keith enlisted in the Mis- 
souri State Guards, Captain Morland's Com- 
pany, Bowman's Regiment. He went with 
the others to Cowskin prairie, in the south- 
western part of the state, and on August 10, 
1 86 1, fought in the great battle of Wilson 
Creek, called by the victors Oak Hill. After 
that he fought at Lexington and later at Pea 
Ridge. After the battle of Pea Ridge the 
Missouri State Guards were absorbed into 
the Confederate service and young Keith em- 
barked at Des Arc with his command and 
went to Mempnis where the famous Landis 
Battery was organized and he became a mem- 



ber of it. He was lithe and active and he 
was made fuse boy, his duty being to touch 
off the cannon. He fought with the Landis 
Battery at luka, Hatchie River, Corinth, 
Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Champion's Hill, 
which decided the fate of Pemberton, and 
at Big Black River, after which he and all 
the Confederates were shut up and belea- 
gured for fifty days in Vicksburg. After the 
fall of Vicksburg the fuse boy refused to be 
paroled. He desired to be exchanged so that 
he could join the Army of Virginia. He 
was accordingly held a prisoner of war, first 
in the Gratiot Street prison in St. Louis, 
and afterwards at Camp Morton. In No- 
vember, 1863, he escaped from prison in a 
daring manner and made his way to Cali- 
fornia. Thus his war record closes. "But 
peace hath her victories no less renowned 
than those of war." R. H. Keith has won 
notable victories in peace. He returned from 
California in 1865, and engaged in freighting 
between Leavenworth and New Mexico. In 
1 87 1 he opened a small retail coal yard in 
Kansas City. From this modest beginning 
he has developed the largest coal business in 
the west. Colonel Keith is president of a 
railroad company, of the Central Coal & 
Coke Company, and of the Louisiana & 
Texas Lumber Company. He has built up 
these enterprises which represent a capital of 
$10,000,000.00. The business of these com- 
panies reaches from the Pacific to the Atlan- 
tic ocean and from the Gulf to the Great 
Lakes. The companies also do export busi- 
ness. He entered business in Kansas City, 
Mo., in 1871 ; coal business. 1873; Keith & 
Henry, 1883; Keith & Perry, 1893; Central 
Coal & Coke Company, 1904. 

Mr. Keith is a Catholic in religion, and 
in politics a Democrat. He is a member of 
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and built the Arkansas & Choctaw railroad. 
He was married, in 1871, to Miss Mary 
Bowman. Children: Charles, Margaret, 
Robert, Anna, Richard H., Jr., Virginia, 
Emily Mary and Taylor Keith. 



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LESTER S. PARKER. 

Lester S. Parker, president and treasurer 
of The L. S. Parker Shoe Company, was 
born in Worcester, Mass., from which place, 
at the age of three, his parents removed to 
Lexington, Ky. From there after five years, 
they removed to Chicago, where his father, 
George C. Parker, was engaged in manufact- 
uring shoes for the great firm of Phelps, 
Dodge & Palmer. His home was the first 
house consumed by the great fire of 1871, 
after Mrs. O'Leary's famous cow kicked over 
the lamp. Soon after the great conflagration 
the family removed to Baltimore, the subject 
of this sketch going to Worcester to attend 
college. While in W^orcester he was an 
active member of the Massachusetts Natural 
History Association, having charge of an im- 
portant work in ornithology. Later entering 
Baltimore College, he graduated in the class 
of 1879, his education having been acquired 
with the view of practicing law ; removing to 
Kansas, near Salina, he was the following 
five years engaged consecutively in the prac- 
tice of law, in teaching, farming, sheep and 
cattle raising. In 1894 he removed to St. 
Paul, Minn., where he was employed as fore- 
man in the shoe factory of Kellog & Johnson, 
of that city. One year later, going to Chi- 
cago, he associated with C. M. Henderson 
& Co., in organizing the Jeflferson Shoe Com- 
pany for the purpose of manufacturing shoes 
in Jefferson City, and was made superintend- 



ent and general manager. In 1895, just 
before the death of Mr. Henderson, the 
plant was removed to Dixon, III, when Mr. 
Parker disposed of his interest and organ- 
ized the present company, incorporating 
under the name of The L. S. Parker Shoe 
Co., his associates being F. N. Chandler, 
vice-president and manager of the factory, 
and George Elston, secretary. 

Mr. Parker was married in 1882, at 
Salina, Kans., to Miss Katie Lockard, of that 
city, who is the mother of his daughter, 
Gracie, and his son, Dan, both of whom are 
attending the public school of Jefferson City. 
This devoted companion he had the misfor- 
tune to lose by death in November, 1890. 
He was a second time united in marriage in 
May, 1895, to Miss M. Sue O'Bannon, 
daughter of Captain O'Bannon, a prominent 
farmer of Cass county. Mo., and a former 
representative of that commonwealth in the 
State Legislature. She was the mother of 
two children : Alice, now aged four years, 
and Lester O'Bannon, an infant of eighteen 
months. To this devoted companion he also 
had to perform the sad duty of following to 
the grave in September, 1899. Mr. Parker, 
notwithstanding his large experience and 
eventful history, is still in the prime of life. 
His opportunities for learning the shoe busi- 
ness, coupled with his natural talent for mak- 
ing them (having now in his possession one 
he made complete when nine years of age) 
he has used to good purpose, as the factory 
of which he is president is running full time, 
giving employment to 230 people, and is now 
over 65,000 pairs short in filling orders. The 
company manufactures exclusively working- 
men's shoes of various kinds of leather, but 
all substantial. They sell only to jobbers in 
large quantities. In addition to his large 
shoe manufacturing interests, Mr. Parker is 



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associated with others in valuable mining 
property near Joplin, which is now yielding 
a good return. He is also largely interested 
in the popular summer resort at South Ha- 
ven, Alich., the company, of which he was 
one of the original promoters, being the 
Monroe Park Cottage Company, which owns 
a number of furnished cottages at that 
famous resort on the great lakes. Mr. 
Parker is a member of the First Baptist 
Church of Jefferson City, of which he is 
trustee and active in his church duties. He 
was for some time superintendent of the Sun- 
day school and now teaches a class. The 
melody of the church choir is regularly 
enriched by his well-trained tenor voice. He 
is also one of the board who looks after Bap- 
tist state missions and Sunday schools, and 
is one of the working force of the State B. 
Y. P. U., which organization he served two 
terms as vice-president. He is the composer 
and publisher of several humorous produc- 
tions. "Rag Time Rastus, the Whistler," is 
his most novel production, and has met with 
hearty approval by the public and press. It 
is decidedly unique in the line of song-writ- 
ing, and has a whistling chorus. It describes 
the predicament of "Rastus," a rag-time 
negro, and is humorous in the extreme. 

"The Pickaninny's Lullaby," is consid- 
ered by many his most choice melody, hav- 
having in its make-up a definite pur- 
pose and being a true and poetical de- 
scription of darkey life. The coarse element 
found in most darkey dialect songs is elimi- 
nated, and the ludicrous common to darkey 
character is pictured in a pleasing and vivid 
manner. 

But to many, his most popular song and 
certainly the most unquestionable hit. full of 
spice and music, i^'People Will Talk," a 
most happy mixture of fact and wit. The 



music and chorus are by Mr. Parker, the 
words being adopted. The following are 
two of the stanzas : 

If threadbare your dress, or old-fashioned your hat. 
Someone will surely take notice of that ; 
And hint rather strong that you can't pay your way. 
But don't get e.xcited, whatever they say, 
For people will talk. 

Chorus — 
For the people, all the people will watch you with 

eyes like a hawk, 
Never sleeping; 
Ever keeping 
Their tongues busy wagging with talk, talk, talk. 

If you dress in the fashion, don't think to escape. 
For they criticise, then, in a different shape ; 
You're ahead of your means, or your're tailor's 

unpaid; 
But mind your own business, there's naught to be 

made, 

For people will talk. 

Chorus : For the people, etc. 

Residence address, 628 East Main street, 
Jefferson City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM LEMUEL POWELL. 

William Lemuel Powell. President of 
the Investment Security Company. Born 
August 22, 1859, at El Paso, 111. Son of 
William Lemuel and Sarah A. (Randolph) 
Powell. Educated in the public and high 
schools of Topeka, Kans., and Pond's Busi- 
ness College. After securing his education 
he became a bookkeeper in the Citizens' Bank 
of North Topeka, Kans., where he served 
two years. Afterwards was a clerk in the 
offices of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe 
Railroad Company, and previous to his com- 
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ploy of the Kansas Loan & Trust Company. 
In 1884 he was engaged in the loan business 
of Jarvis, ConkHn & Company. Kansas 
City, Mo. Member of the firms of Ham- 
merslough & Powell ; Smith, Powell & Co. ; 
Osborn & Powell; W. L. Powell & Co.; 
Powell & Wooherton, and the Powell-Moore 
Realty Company, and now, 1904, the Invest- 
ment Security Company, of Kansas City, 
Mo. He has been secretary of the Argen- 
tine Real Estate & Loan Company ; vice-pres- 
ident of the New York Lead & Zinc Com- 
pany; secretary of the New Century Hotel 
Company, and treasurer of the Gold City 
Mining & Milling Company, and Home Sup- 
ply Company. Fraternally, he belongs to the 
]\Iasonic, K. P., M. W. A., Court of Honor, 
and is at present scribe of Victory Court, 
No. 74, T. B. H. Republican in politics. 
Mr. Powell was married November 27, 
1902, in Kansas City, Mo., to Miss Ada M. 
We Mott. Business address, 216-222 Bryan 
building; residence address, 323 Virginia 
avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



EUGENE B. GREGORY. 

Eugene B. Gregory. Wholesale coffee 
and spice merchant. Born July 10, 1874, in 
St. Louis, Mo. Son of Patrick and Bridget 
(Dougherty) Gregory. Educated at the 
Christian Brothers' College, and St. Vincent 
College, St. Girard, Mo. He is a member 
of the firm of Menown & Gregory, estab- 
lished in 1884. Previous to his entering in 
this business he was a traveling salesman for 
Menown & Bros. Their house is a dealer in 
high grade goods in teas, coffees and spices, 
and they control a large trade in the west and 
southwest in this particular line. In religious 



belief he is a Catholic, and Republican in 
politics. 

Mr. Gregory was married July 10, 1874, 
to Miss Nellie Tobin. Two children have 
been born to this union, Estelle and Florence. 
Business address, 414 North Second street; 
residence address, 2931 Dickson street. 



OSCAR ADDISON FIELD. 

Oscar Addison Field. President of the 
Jesse French Piano and Organ Company. 
Among the many self-made men that this 
country should be proud of is Oscar A. Field. 
He was born in Canandaigua, N. Y., June 
29, 1847. Son of Francis Field and wife 
Julia (Hotchkiss) Field. He was educated 
in the public schools of New York and Michi- 
gan. His father was a captain in the War of 
1812, and his grandfather was captain in the 
Revolutionary war. Mr. Field worked on a 
farm in Michigan at $5.00 per month, to 
begin with, and remained on a farm until 
he was twenty-three years old. At that age 
he commenced to retail pianos at $30.00 per 
month. Has made a steady advancement up 
to the present time. He organized the Jesse 
French Piano and Organ Company October 
10, 1887. On October 14, 1901, he was 
elected president of the same, having been 
secretary and treasurer of the company until 
then. The officers of the company are : O. 
A. Field, president; Henry Gennett, vice- 
president, Richmond, Ind. ; L. L. Field, sec- 
retary, St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Field moved- to 
St. Louis from Tennessee in 1883, establish- 
ing this business at this time. They are man- 
ufacturers of and wholesale and retail deal- 
ers in pianos. He is a member of the 
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Club, also a member of the Royal Arcanum. 
Mr. Field was married August 29, 1882, 
in Nashville, Tenn., to Miss Maria Lums- 
den. Children : Lucetta Lumsden and Oscar 
Addison Field, Jr. Business address, 11 14 
Olive street; residence address, 4056 West 
Bell Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES M. FRANCISCUS. 

James M. Franciscus, treasurer of the 
city of St. Louis, Mo., and nominated 
for another term, was born in that city 
March 15, 1866, a son of James M. and Jane 
E. (Huffaker) Franciscus. Received an ex- 
cellent educational training, completing at 
the Washington University. Subsequent to 
his graduation Mr. Franciscus made his 
entry into commercial life as a clerk for the 
Simmons Hardware Company, remaining 
with them two years. He was next in the 
auditor's office of the Wabash railroad, 
where he acted in a clerical capacity for 
eighteen months, leaving there to become 
bookkeeper for the Third National Bank for 
three years. In 1889 he joined the real 
estate firm of Moffett & Franciscus, which 
firm has been succeeded by James M. Fran- 
ciscus & Company, Mr. Franciscus having 
acquired complete control of the business. 
He acted twice as special commissioner for 
the Lindell estate, administering its affairs 
with excellent judgment and to the satisfac- 
tion of all concerned, giving bond for 
$1,000,000.00. Acted as special commis- 
sioner for the D. A. January estate, giving 
a bond for $485,000, and served also as exec- 
utor of his father's estate. In many other 
ways Mr. Franciscus has displayed aptitude 
for the management of large estates and has 



a reputation for reliability and sound judg- 
ment which is not excelled in the entire city. 
He is a Democrat in politics. At the Demo- 
cratic convention in St. Louis February 12, 
1901, he was nominated for the position he 
now holds. He is a member of the Jeft'er- 
son Club and the St. Louis Athletic Club. 
In 1892 was appointed a member of the 
Mullanphy board, but after one year of serv- 
ice he resigned. Was also vice-president of 
the St. Louis Real Estate Exchange. 

On June 12, 1890, he married Miss Kath- 
erine G. Lindsay. They have four children : 
James Lindsay, Jane, Marian E., and James 
M. Franciscus. Business address, 703 
Chestnut street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



SAMUEL GOLDMAN. 

Samuel Goldman. Furniture merchant. 
Born November i, 1856, in St. Louis, Mo. 
Son of Samuel and Barbara Goldman. Edu- 
cated in the public schools of St. Louis. After 
acquiring his education he began business 
life as a clerk in a grocery store; was 
stockkeeper in a clothing store and clerk in a 
furniture store until he engaged in business 
for himself. In 1891 he organized the firm 
of Goldman Brothers, composed of Samuel. 
Louis and Maurice Goldman. The firm 
transacts a large business in furniture, car- 
pets and household goods. Mr. Golden is a 
member of the Elks, Royal League, Colum- 
bian Club, Young Men's Henbrew Associa- 
tion, Missouri Athletic Club, New York Life 
Insurance, Northwestern Mutual Life In- 
surance Company. In religious Ijelief he is 
a Hebrew, and independent in politics. 

Mr. Goldman was married May 10, 1885, 
in St. Louis, Mo., to iliss Ray Meyer. Chil- 



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dren : Sydney and Roy Goldman. Business 
address, 1106 Olive street; residence address, 
4450 Morgan street. 



JUDGE JAMES BRITTON GANTT, 

Judge James Britton Gantt, chief justice 
and presiding judge of the Missouri Su- 
preme Court, was born in Putnam county, 
Ga., October 26, 1845. His education was 
in the private schools and academies of Jones 
and Bibb counties, Ga. In the spring of 
1862, at the age of sixteen years, he enlisted 
in the Twelfth Georgia Regiment Infantry, 
C. S. A., and served in Jackson's Second 
Army Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, 
until permanently disabled by a wound at 
Cedar Creek Valley, Va., October 19, 1864. 
Previous to this he was twice wounded at the 
famous battle of Gettysburg, and met with 
a similar misfortune at the battle of the 
Wilderness May 5, 1864. After the war he 
read law under Col. L. N. Whittle, of Macon, 
Ga., later attending the law department of 
the University of Virginia, from which place 
he graduated in July, 1868. He removed to 
Missouri in October of that year, and en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession. He 
has been associated in his legal practice with 
men of national prominence, among them 
the venerable United States Senator George 
G. Vest. He was elected judge of the 
Twenty-second Judicial Circuit of Missouri 
in November, 1880; after serving six years, 
he declined a re-election, and returned to the 
practice of his profession at Clinton. He 
was elected to his present position as judge 
of the Supreme Court of Missouri, to suc- 
ceed Judge Robert D. Ray, at the November 
election, 1890. 



Mr. Gantt was united in marriage to 
Miss Alice Warth, April 23, 1872, who died 
August 8, 1889. He has four children. On 
July 23, 1-891, he was united in marriage to 
Mrs. Matilda (nee Weidemeyer) Lee, a lady 
of rare culture, who, in addition to her many 
charms of mind and person, is an exception- 
ally fine performer on the piano forte. 

Of the many men who occupy a position 
as judge in the state of Missouri, not in one 
are the elements which should constitute a 
man worthy of this exalted position more 
completely represented than in the person of 
Judge Gantt. He has enjoyed unusual ad- 
vantages, having been associated with the 
greatest legal minds of the country, his ob- 
serving mind enabling him to profit by the 
association. In addition to being a close 
student and reader of the many legal publi- 
cations and law commentaries, he has made 
himself familiar with the great fountain 
source from which all ideas of justice and 
right are drawn — that book of books — the 
Bible, of which he has been a close reader 
and student since his early youth when he 
was lead in this direction by the counsel and 
influence of a pious. Christian mother. He 
is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian 
Church, and in the multitude of his duties, 
including the reading necessary to equip him 
for decisions on the important questions con- 
stantly before him, he finds time to study the 
lessons prepared for the Sabbath school 
scholars, and his talks to the class of young 
men in the Presbyterian Church every Sun- 
day morning are rare treats to the favored 
members of th^ class, most of whom will 
doubtless be largely benefitted by his wise 
counsel and example, and through whom the 
good seed will multiply when they assume 
the responsibilities of social and business life. 
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important decisions and opinions confirmed 
by the United States Supreme Court attest, 
while the fact that he will be renominated 
this fall by acclamation should be a gratify- 
ing assurance to him that his worth and 
sterling qualities, as both a judge and citizen 
are recognized and appreciated by the citizens 
of the proud commonwealth of Missouri. He 
resides with his family, at his comfortable 
home, III East McCarty street, Jefferson 
City, Missouri. 



GEORGE W. LUBKE. 

George W. Lubke. Lawyer. Born in St. 
Louis. February 22, 1845. Son of William 
and Catherine (Penningroth) Lubke. His 
father fell a victim to the gold fever in 1849 
and crossed the great plains, being given 
command of the wagon train, a position in 
that day which carried with it almost the 
same power wielded by the captain of a ship 
at sea. Shortly after this the family was 
stricken with the cholera, of which only the 
subject of this sketch and one sister lived. 
Then he was taken by an uncle and aunt to 
their farm near Venedy, in Washington 
county. III, where he remained four years, 
and with the exception of this period, he has 
spent the balance of his life in St. Louis. At 
the Washington county farm he received his 
first schooling, the minister of the German 
Lutheran Church at Venedy acting as his 
instructor, and on his return to St. Louis 
he prosecuted to completion his studies in the 
public and private schools of the city. Later 
he entered the office of Hon. Henry Hitch- 
cock and began the study of law. September 
13, 1864, he was admitted to the bar, and 
with the exception of the time served by him 



while on the bench, has been in practice in 
that profession in St. Louis ever since. Dur- 
ing the fall of 1864 he saw some active mili- 
tary service as a member of the Eleventh 
Enrolled Militia. In 1883 he was elected 
judge of the St. Louis Circuit Court, which 
office he filled until 1889, when he returned 
to the ranks of the people. He is connected 
with a number of local societies and organi- 
zations, among them the St. Louis Legion 
of Honor. 

Judge Lubke was married at St. Louis. 
Mo., September 10, 1868, to Miss Henrietta 
Luttercord. They had six children, five of 
w'hom survive. Business address, 721-723 
Lincoln Trust building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ERNEST SIMONSEN. 

Ernest Simonsen, financier, one of the 
most enterprising citizens of Jefiferson City, 
Mo., was born near Halmstad, Sweden, No- 
vember 30, 1858, where he attended the ele- 
mentary school until 1875, when he w^as ad- 
mitted to the technical school at Orebro, 
Sweden, from which he graduated as a 
mechanical engineer in the class of 1878. He 
then engaged as a mechanical draftsman at 
Halmstad's Mekaniska Verstad until 1881, 
when he left Sweden and came to America, 
where he worked short periods for some of 
the leading manufacturing firms of the east 
in the capacity of machinist, with a view of 
getting more knowledge of the ways of his 
adopted country. He was engaged in 1882 
as mechanical draftsman with the Bridge- 
port Machine Tool Works, at Bridgeport. 
Conn., which position he held two years, 
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with marked ability. He resigned this posi- 
tion in 1888 to accept one as general super- 
intendent of the Ingersoll-Sergeant Rock 
Drill Company, of New York, remaining 
only a short time (till May i, 1889) when 
he made a trip to Europe where he visited 
his native home and attended the Paris Expo- 
sition, returning to America the following 
October. He came to Jefferson City in 1889 
and purchased what was known as the Jef- 
ferson City foundry, and continued the busi- 
ness under the name of the Simonsen-Wal- 
ther Manufacturing Company. In 1894 he 
engaged with Mr. P. H. Loethen in scientific 
heating, under the firm name of the Jefferson 
Heating Company, doing a general hot water 
and steam heating business, managing both 
businesses until 1898, when he disposed of 
the foundry business in order to give more 
attention to heating contracting. Among the 
many important contracts of this company 
are the Cole county court house, Casconade 
county court house, four buildings of the 
Lincoln Institute, six school buildings of 
Jefferson City, Missouri Pacific passenger 
station. State armory, Madison Hotel, Ex- 
change Bank building, Dallmeyer building, 
Realty buildings, and a number of private 
residences, also Eitzen's building, Califor- 
nia, Missouri. 

Mr. Simonsen is a Republican, but not 
active in politics. He is a member of the 
Commercial Club, and was its president in 
1897 and 1898; is director and vice-president 
of the Capital City Building & Loan Associa- 
tion; director of the Jefferson City Bridge 
& Transit Company ; vice-president of the 
Town Mutual Fire Insurance Company ; 
treasurer of the Free Public Library; secre- 
tary of the Central Missouri Trust Com- 
pany, etc. He was made a Mason in Sweden, 
in 1880, where he still holds membership in 



St. John Lodge "Oscar" in Halstad. He is 
also a Knight Templar and thirty-second de- 
gree Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner. He 
is a most worthy, progressive and enterpris- 
ing citizen of Jefferson City, whose worth is 
highly appreciated by all who know him. 
Residence address, City Hotel, Jefferson 
City, Missouri. 



HAROLD JOHNSON. 

Harold Johnson. Lawyer. Born in 
1873 '■'' Carrollton, Greene county. 111. Son 
of Henry and Mary (Brock) Johnson. Edu- 
cation acquired in the public schools in Illi- 
nois and Kansas, and graduating at Wash- 
ington University in the class of 1891, and 
the St. Louis Law School in 1893. Ances- 
tors mostly Revolutionary and Civil war sol- 
diers. Mr. Johnson began his career as 
official stenographer of the Circuit Court of 
St. Louis, then he read law and was admitted 
to the bar in 1893. 

Successful in the legal profession Mr. 
Johnson has achieved high literary honors 
as an author, critic and philosopher, and his 
tastes are decidedly literary. As an author 
he is a clear and forcible writer on many sub- 
jects. As a member of the Baconian Society 
of London and American Shakesperean Soci- 
ety he has done much toward establishing 
Lord Bacon's claims to authorship of the 
plays of Shakespeare, Marlow, Johnson, the 
King James Version of the Holy Bible, Bur- 
ton's Anatomy of Melancholia and Hooker's 
Ecclesiastical Polity. Distinguished as a lect- 
urer on Shakespeare, he has written many val- 
uable essays on the same. Mr. Johnson located 
in Missouri, in 1893, coming from Illinois, 
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St. Louis. He is a member of the St. Louis 
Club, Mercantile Club, Republican Club, 
Current Topics Club, Business Men's 
League, and is a prominent member of a 
number of secret societies and various bar 
associations, and a lecturer in one of the 
St. Louis law schools. In politics he is a 
Republican, and is a believer in the Episco- 
palian faith. 

Mr. Johnson was married in 1893 to Miss 
Kate Irene Hopkins, of Kansas. One child 
has been born to them, Harold Hopkins 
Johnson. 



GEORGE F. LONGAN. 

Hon. George F. Longan, of Sedalia, Mo., 
judge of the Thirtieth Judicial circuit, was 
born on a farm near Houstonia, Pettis 
county, October 28, 1856. His father, John 
B. Longan, was one of the pioneers of the 
state, and his grandfather, A. K. Longan, 
was the first representative from Cooper 
county in the Missouri Legislature. 

In 1874 the son entered the Warrensburg 
Normal School. The following year he 
taught school at Dresden, and again entered 
the Normal, after which, in 1877, he attended 
the Missouri State University. He then 
briefly resumed teaching at the end of the 
term. He began reading law in Sedalia in 
1879, and was admitted to the bar in 1880; 
was city attorney in 1881-82; representative 
in the Thirty-eighth General Assembly in 
1883, and prosecuting attorney of Pettis 
county for two terms — 1889 to 1893. Upon 
the creation of the Thirtieth Judicial circuit, 
in 1895, he was appointed judge thereof by 
Governor William JT Stone until the general 
election of 1896, when he was elected to the 



office for a term expiring January i, 1899. 
He was re-elected to a full term in 1898, 
and is the Democratic nominee for re-elec- 
tion the coming November. 

The foregoing record is one that plainly 
demonstrates the remarkable personal popu- 
larity of Judge Longan, and the signal abil- 
ity and faithfulness with which he has dis- 
charged the duties of important offices in- 
trusted to him. By his constituents, includ- 
ing the bar of Sedalia, and indeed of the 
state, he is regarded as one of the ablest 
jurists in Missouri. 

Judge Longan has a delightful family — 
an accomplished wife and three charming 
children — to whom he is deeply devoted. 
Residence address, 504 West Broadway, 
Sedalia, Missouri. 



OCEON FERDINAND UHL. 

Oceon Ferdinand Uhl. Wholesale jew- 
eler. Born May I, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo. 
Son of William and M. (Hoeltze) Uhl. Ed- 
ucated in the public schools and business 
college of St. Louis. He was a member of the 
Ferstenvverth-Uhl Jewelry Company, incor- 
porated in 1902, composed of D. M. Fersten- 
werth, president, and Arthur Uhl,- vice- 
president. Wholesale jewelry business. He 
began his business career as a clerk, in 1884. 
with the Providence Jewelry Company. In 
1890 became a member of the firm of the 
C. R. Hettal Jewelry Company. In 1902 
secretary and treasurer of the Furstenwerth- 
Uhl Jewelry Company. In religious belief 
he is a Catholic, and he affiliates with the 
Republican party. 

Mr. Uhl was married November 5, 1891, 
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dren : Ida Furstenwerth and Mildred Uhl. 
Business address, 1009 Washington avenue; 
residence address, 2803 Wyoming street. 



HON. J. L. BABCOCK. 

Hon. J. L. Babcock. Mayor of the city 
of SedaHa, Mo. It is an interesting coinci- 
dence that Mr. Babcock was born on March 
4, 1 86 1 — the day Abraham Lincoln was first 
inaugurated president of the United States. 
In honor of the event the parents named their 
son Judd Lincoln Babcock. 

Mr. Babcock received his education in 
the public schools of Lament, Mich., his 
birthplace. Upon reaching manhood he en- 
tered into active business life. Leaving his 
home in Michigan he went to Arkansas, 
where he remained some time, conducting a 
sawmill. Later, for five years he was a resi- 
dent of Springfield. Mo. Thence, twelve 
years ago, he came to Sedalia and has since 
been a member of the Babcock Lumber 
Company. 

Mr. Babcock's first experience in munici- 
pal affairs was in the capacity of councilman 
from the Fourth Sedalia ward, of which he 
was chosen president. While presiding as 
such he succeeded by special election to the 
mayorality, on the death of Dr. S. K. Craw- 
ford, and filled out the unexpired term. 
Twice since then he has been elected to that 
ofifice. Mr. Babcock has made a magnificent 
record as mayor of Sedalia, and his admin- 
istrations are regarded with great pride by 
the people of that city, irrespective of party. 
As a matter of fact, in his first and second 
campaigns he had, practically, no opposition. 

The devotion of Mayor Babcock to the 
interests of Sedalia is a controlling passion 



with him. This was especiafly manifest in 
his personal efforts toward securing the Mis- 
souri Pacific shops. With remarkable fore- 
sight and sagacity he first saw and grasped 
the great opportunity. His indomitable en- 
ergy and superb courage were vital factors 
from the beginning to the triumphant end of 
that memorable contest. 

As a citizen, as a business man and as an 
official, Mayor J. L. Babcock is a model, and 
one whose services to the city are well-nigh 
invaluable. Residence address, 907 West 
Seventh street, Sedalia, Missouri. 



ELIJAH EMORY JOHNSTON. 

Elijah Emory Johnston, one of the vet- 
eran merchants of Sedalia, Mo., has been 
continuously in the clothing business since 
he reached manhood. He was born and 
reared on a farm in Coles county, 111., in 
1848, and was educated in the public schools. 
He then went to Charleston, the county seat, 
and began his business career as a clothier. 
After remaining there till April, 1882, he 
came to Sedalia and engaged in the same 
business here, and has met with great suc- 
cess. His personal manners and business 
methods have won him great popularity, and 
his reputation as one of the leading merchants 
of Central Missouri was long ago securely 
established. Mr. Johnston has always kept 
abreast of the times. His stock of clothing 
is of standard make and quality. There is 
none better on the counter, the whole year 
round. His line of furnishing goods is large 
and complete, while his suit cases and trav- 
eling bags are the latest, cheapest and best 
in the market. 

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man, Mr. Johnston has always taken a hearty 
interest in pubhc affairs affecting the welfare 
of the community. He has always striven to 
advance it in the right direction and has been 
liberal in the matter of the purse and progres- 
sive in his ideas and practices. Municipal 
and political honors that he never accepted 
have been tendered him, though in the pres- 
ent campaign he is the Democratic nominee 
to represent Pettis county in the State Legis- 
lature. Business address, 297 South Ohio 
street; residence address, 300 West Fourth 
street, Sedalia, ]\lissouri. 



CHARLES E. LIVINGSTON THOMAS. 

Charles E. Livingston Thomas. Lawyer. 
Born April 11, 1876, in Belleville, 111. Son 
of Charles Wait and Rhoda (Bissell) 
Thomas, a daughter of Governor Bis- 
sell, of Illinois. The father was an artil- 
lery officer in the Civil war. Grandfather 
colonel of the Second Illinois Regiment in 
the Mexican war. Ancestors in the Revolu- 
tion. Educated in Yale College, class of 
1897. Studied international law at Heidel- 
' berg, Germany, and served eleven months in 
the volunteer army during the Spanish- 
American war, with headquarters with Gen- 
eral Lee's Army Corps. Distinguished for 
valorous acts ; was one of four men to raise 
the United States flag over Havana on Jan- 
uary I, 1899. He is a communicant of the 
Catholic Church, Republican in politics, and 
a member of the University Club, Missouri 
Athletic Club, and Citizens' Free Bridge As- 
sociation. In 1901 located in St. Louis from 
Illinois. In 1905 established the legal firm 
of Thomas & Thoma^ consisting of Charles 
Wait and Charles E. Livingston Thomas. 



Appointed by President Palma, in 1904, resi- 
dent Cuban consul at St. Louis, Mo. 

On January 11, 1905, Mr. Thomas was 
married to Miss Eugenie Papin, of St. Louis, 
Mo. Business address, 820 Rialto building; 
residence address, Buckingham Hotel, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS G. RUTLEDGE. 

Thomas G. Rutledge. Lawyer. Born 
July 26, 1871, in Gold Hill, Cal. Son of 
Edward and Elizabeth (Wray) Rutledge. 
Educated in the public and high schools of 
St. Louis, and W'ashington University, grad- 
uating at the latter institution in 1892 with 
the degree of A. B. In the line of ancestry 
he is connected with the famous family of 
John Rutledge, second chief justice of the 
United States, and Edward Rutledge, signer 
of the Declaration of Independence. Located 
in St. Louis, IMo., in 1873, from California. 

Mr. Rutledge is a member of the United 
Presbyterian Church. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He is a member of the Univer- 
sity Club of St. Louis, and has practiced his 
profession since 1892, and is considered one 
of the leading attorneys of the St. Louis Bar. 
Business address, 415 Security building; res- 
idence address, 4479 Delmar avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN E. GARMAN. 

John E. Garman, public administrator of 
Cole county, Mo., who is now filling a sec- 
ond term in this important office, was born 
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on a farm near Worcester, where he was 
reared and educated. In 1S68 he removed 
to Cole county, purchasing a farm near Els- 
ton, where he has continued since to make 
his home. He has also efigaged in teaching, 
and many youths attending school in his dis- 
trict will long carry the impress of his ster- 
ling worth and character. He was urged to 
accept the nomination at the hands of his 
party for the important and sacred office of 
puhlic administrator. Unsolicited, he re- 
ceived the second nomination, and has per- 
formed his duties with great credit and 
satisfaction. He has been married three 
times and has two children. He is a Master 
Mason, and is an active member in the First 
Presbyterian church of Jefferson City. 

Mr. Carman has recently been nominated 
as county assessor. He has proved himself 
worthy of the high esteem in xyhich he is 
held by his associates. Business address, 
Jeft'erson City, Missouri. 



GEORGE DANIEL ROSENTHAL. 

George Daniel Rosenthal. Manager of 
the General Electric Company. Born Janu- 
ary 6, 1869, in the city of Krementschug, 
Russia. Son of Herman and Annie Rosen- 
thal. Educated in the Government Univer- 
sity, Poltawa, Russia; High School, Mit- 
chell, S. D. Appointed general manager of 
the General Electric Cimpany, of St. Louis. 
He is also the vice-president of the P. C. 
Murphy Trunk Company, St. Louis. He 
located in St. Louis, Mo., in August, 1892, 
and has been prominent in mercantile inter- 
ests since that time. He is a member of the 
Mercantile, Missouri Athletic, Glen Echo 



and Engineer clubs of St. Louis. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. 

Mr. Rosenthal was married April 27, 
1896, in St. Louis, to Miss Josephine Mur- 
phy. Children: George D., Jr., Normyan, 
Leanore and Katherine Rosenthal. Busi- 
ness address, 815-816 Wainwright building; 
residence address, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. GUSTAVE ETTMUELLER. 

Dr. Gustave Ettmueller, physician, was 
born in Freiberg, Saxony, March 7, 1843. 
His father ( who bore the same name) was 
an eminent physician and surgeon and pri- 
vate medical counselor to His Royal High- 
ness, the King of Saxony. The early educa- 
tion of our subject was obtained in the public 
schools of his native town, and at the college 
St.Afra in Meissen, Saxony, where he grad- 
uated in the class of 1862. Later, following 
his inherited taste for the profession of medi- 
cine and surgery, he attended the LIniversity 
at Leipsic, Germany, from which celebrated 
institution he graduated in 1867. In 1868 
he immigrated to America. After six months 
in New York City, in the practice of his pro- 
fession, he remained one year in Marysville, 
Kans., to which place he had removed. In 
1870 he moved to Hermann, Mo., where he 
continued a successful practitioner until 
1894, when he located in Jefferson City. He 
is a member of the K. of P. and I. O. O. F. ; 
was one of the board of managers of the in- 
sane asylum at Fulton during the administra- 
tions of governors Marmaduke and Francis. 
He was for many years a Democratic con- 
gressional committeeman for this (Bland's) 
district, and an intimate friend of that late 
distinguished statesman. He is at present a 



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member of the board of examining surgeons 

for pensions, also city physician. He is a 

man whose character and worth are highly 

esteemed by all citizens of Jefferson City, 

and he stands at the head of his profession. 

Office, Binder building; residence address, 

612 East High street, Jefiferson City, 

Missouri. 

•-»-• 

FRANCIS EDMISTON COOK. 

Francis Edmiston Cook, principal of the 
Crow School, son of A. B. and Ada (Edmis- 
ton) Cook, was born in Houston, Texas, 
in September, 1S45, just three months be- 
fore the Lone Star State was admitted to the 
Union. His parents were both natives of 
Ohio. On his father's side Mr. Cook is of 
direct English descent, his grandfather hav- 
ing been born in the Isle of Wight, in the 
British Channel. His mother's family has 
resided for many years in Delaware, her an- 
cestors ha\ing been among the earliest set- 
tlers of that state. 

When Francis was a few months old, his 
parents returned to Cincinnati. Ohio, where 
he was educated in the public schools. After 
some careful study, he entered the Seventh 
District school and graduated with honors 
in 1858. He then entered the Fourth Inter- 
mediate School, and after a year's course 
came to St. Louis, where he entered the 
Franklin School and graduated to the High 
School in 1861. After a year in the High 
School he entered the Illinois State Normal 
University at Bloomington, whence in 1863 
he returned to the St. Louis High School 
and graduated in 1864. 

Young Mr. Cook had developed such a 
desire for learning and such an aptitude for 
acquiring information that he decided to per- 



severe in his studies and make himself thor- 
oughly proficient in every branch. He ac- 
cordingly entered the Philips Academy at 
Exeter, N. H., whence he entered Williams 
College, Massachusetts, graduating there- 
from in the year 1868. In 1869 Professor 
Cook returned to St. Louis, and was ap- 
pointed principal of the Webster School. In 
1870 he organized the Douglas School, of 
which he was appointed principal. In 1871 
he was promoted to the head of the branch 
High School, of which he was principal for 
fourteen years. In 1885 he was transferred 
to the Carr Lane School, and in 1887 he be- 
came principal of the Wayman Crow School, 
a position he still occupies. Mr. Cook is rec- 
ognized as one of the best teachers in the 
splendid corps of tutors now to be found in 
St. Louis. He is exceedingly popular among 
tJie pupils, and is giving them a great deal 
of tuition outside of the course of study and 
routine work of the school. 

In 1 87 1 Professor Cook was elected pres- 
ident of the Teachers' Association of St. 
Louis, and he presided o\er that body with 
dignity and ability for one year. He was one 
of the founders of the Teachers' Mutual Aid 
Association, of which he was president for 
upwards of ten years, and he was the first 
president of the St. Louis Society of Peda- 
gogy, occupying the same position again 
many years later. He was also one of the 
founders and first editors of the IVcstcrn 
Magazine, a monthly publication of much in- 
terest, and he was also appointed a member 
of the faculty of the State Training School. 
He now represents the Eighth Congres- 
sional district on the educational committee 
of the state of Missouri, having been ap- 
pointed to the position by the governor. 

j\Ir. Cook's writings have earned for him 
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for so many years claimed him as one of its 
honored and learned citizens. He has con- 
tributed to a large number of magazines rep- 
resenting modern thought, and although his 
work has been to philosophical and thought- 
ful to become popular among the masses, it 
is highly appreciated by the best judges and 
by those who are able to follow the careful 
lines of thought so ably outlined by the tal- 
ented teacher and writer. 

Mr. Cook is an excellent public speaker 
and debater. He is blessed with an excep- 
tionably pleasant voice and good delivery, 
and his recitatioi"* are deservedly popular in 
all circles. Mr. Cook is one of the vice-presi- 
dents of the St. Louis Writers' Club, and is 
one of the most influential and valuable mem- 
bers of that body. 

He married in December, 1871, Miss 
Anna Alexander, a graduate of the High and 
Normal schools of this city. He has three 
children, the oldest. Miss Stella, a very tal- 
ented young lady, now in the senior class of 
the High School ; and Robert and Frank, 
aged respectively sixteen and thirteen, both 
of whom are attending school. Residence ad- 
dress, 3903 Belle Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES M. ROLLINS. 

James M. Rollins. Lawyer. Born April 
2, 1862, in North Carolina. Son of Henry 
G. and Mary (Patrick) Rollins, and the 
great-grandparents served in the Revolution- 
ary war. Educated in the Apex Academy 
and Bingham School, North Carolina. 
Studied and taught three years in Japan pre- 
vious to his adopting his profession. Admit- 
ted to practice at the bar of the L^nited 
States Supreme Court. In 1890 removed to 



St. Louis from Maryland ; student in the St. 
Louis Law School in 1894. Since that time 
he has practiced his profession in St. Louis, 
and without any of the advantages conferred 
by wealth or proffered assistance, he has 
independently achieved success as an able 
counsellor and advocate. He worked his 
way steadily up to prominence and distinc- 
tion. Is a clever newspaper and periodical 
correspondent, where his ability is recog- 
nized and sought for. His literary attain- 
ments enabled him to make thorough prepara- 
tion on entering the practice. He was em- 
ployed on the staff of the St. Louis Globe- 
Democrat^ and was state senator for the 
Thirty-fourth Senatorial district in the 
fortieth and forty-first General Assembly. 
Of his accomplishments as an able, forcible 
speaker and orator we quote the words of 
State Senator Thomas Martin, who was one 
of his colleagues at the time in tke senate, 
concerning his speech opposing the police 
law : "The speech of Senator Rollins is one 
of the most forcible presentations of fact that 
in my twenty odd years of service at the state 
capital I have ever heard." Mr. Rollins' 
success as an orator before the public and as 
a debator in legislative bodies, places him in 
the front rank for political preferment, 
wherein the rare qualities of speaking argu- 
mentatively, and of debate are required. He 
has achieved remarkable success also as a 
practitioner before the bar, and is extremely 
popular in the community in which he re- 
sides. He has always been active in the in- 
terests of the Republican party, and has done 
that party much effective service in numerous 
campaigns here and throughout the entire 
state. He is a member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity, the Royal Arcanum and I. O. O. F. 
Mr. Rollins was married February 13, 
1904, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Anna Mar- 



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quardt. Business address, Lincoln Trust 
building; residence address, 3702 Juniata 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ARTHUR DUNSTAN RAWLIXGS. 

Arthur Dunstan Rawlings. Wholesale 
grocer merchant. Born March 9, 1866, in 
St. Louis, Mo. Son of George and Sarah 
(Pavey) Rawlings. Educated in the St. 
Louis public schools. His father was a pay- 
master during the war. He is a member 
of the Benjamin W. Clark Grocery Com- 
pany, and a director of the same. The offi- 
cers are Warren L. Clark, president; Benja- 
min \\'. Clark, vice-president; Oscar Her- 
man, secretary. Incorporated and estab- 
lished in August, 1869. The firm are whole- 
sale dealers in groceries. He began his busi- 
ness career in January, 1880, as an office 
boy for Clark & Dillon, attorneys ; February, 
1 88 1, office boy for A. E. Tucker, merchan- 
dise broker; 1882, invoice clerk for R. Sel- 
lew & Co. ; 1883-84, clerked for the Dennison 
Manufacturing Company, and for the St. 
Louis Glass & Queensware Company; Jan- 
uary, 1885, began with the Clark & Stuyves- 
ant Grocery Company (predecessors of B. 
W. Clark Grocery Company) as shipping 
clerk, and rising to cashier during thirteen 
years. In November, 1897, started in the 
merchandise brokerage business under the 
style of Alderman & Rawlings. November, 
1898, junior partner of Chas. C. Clark & 
Co. May, 1903, the business of Chas. C. 
Clark & Co. was merged with that of the 
Lincoln Mercantile Company, and Mr. Raw- 
lings managed their grocery department until 
September of the ^me year. September, 
1903, accepted a position with the Benjamin 



W. Clark Grocery Company to manage their 
mail order department. January, 1905, pur- 
chased an interest in the Benjamin W. Clark 
Grocery Company, and was elected a direc- 
tor. 

Mr. Rawlings is a member of the Trav- 
elers' Protective Association. In religious 
belief he is a Presbyterian. In politics. Dem- 
ocratic. 

On May 31, 1888, in St. Louis, Mo., Mr. 
Rawlings married Miss Ora Lee Walton. 
Children : Erwin Walton, Lucius Alderman, 
Richard Lee. Business address, 307-9-1 1 
North Second street, St. Louis. Missouri. 



WILLIAM ASKINS RUTLEDGE. 

William Askins Rutledge. Real estate 
operator and financier. Born March 12, 
1855. in the village of Mechanicsburg, near 
Springfield, 111. Son of Washington D. and 
Lucy (Askins) Rutledge. In his boyhood 
he attended the public schools at Springfield, 
and supplemented this training for a business 
by a course of study in a commercial college 
there, conducted by his father. Then for a 
short time he worked on a farm near spring- 
field, and in 1870 joined his father in St. 
Louis. Here he was employed first in the 
wholesale law book firm of Soule, Thomas 
& W'indsor; later in the wholesale drug 
store of Wengler, Blow & Co., and still 
later by A. A. Mellier, also a wholesale drug- 
gist. In the panic of 1873 ^^^ ^^^^ ''''^ position 
with this firm. He then accepted a position 
with J. M. Carpenter, who was engaged in 
the real estate business, and through this con- 
nection he became identified with a business 
for which he has shown himself well quali- 
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successful. He was for a time employed in 
the real estate office of Edgar Miller, and, 
having qualified himself by experience to en- 
gage in the business he joined Charles A. 
Dyer in establishing a real estate agency of 
their own in 1877. Within a year there- 
after he purchased his partner's interest in 
this business and conducted his operations 
alone until 1882, when he formed a partner- 
ship with William H. Horton, and became 
head of the firm of Rutledge & Horton. This 
partnership was dissolved in 1895 and there- 
after, until the close of the year 1897, Mr. 
Rutledge was in business alone, but at which 
time he incorporated the William A. Rut- 
ledge Real Estate Company, capitalized at 
$25,000, his associates in this enterprise 
being W. J. Hamilton and Seneca N. Taylor. 
Mr. Rutledge has helped greatly to enlarge 
the area of St. Louis. His accurate judg- 
ment of real estate values have caused him 
to be called upon to serve the public in vari- 
ous capacities in this connection, and he 
acted as a member of the board of commis- 
sioners appointed in 1896 to assess damages 
and benefits incident to the opening of Comp- 
ton avenue, from Lafayette avenue to Caron- 
delet. He was also one of the commissioners 
who condemned the site of tlie new water- 
works at the Chain of Rocks. During the 
year 1897 he was one of the directors of the 
Real Estate Exchange of St. Louis. 

Politically Mr. Rutledge affiliates with 
the Republican party, and his religious con- 
nections are with the Methodist Church. In 
1892 he helped to found the Maple Avenue 
Alethodist Episcopal Church, and was one 
of the chief donors of the fund with which 
that handsome stone chapel was erected. In 
1892 he was made president of the board of 
trustees of this church, and for several years 
taught a class in its Sunday school. He was 



also treasrer of the building fund of the 
Maple Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church 
during the five years in which he was presi- 
dent of the board. He has been, for a num- 
ber of years, secretary and treasurer of the 
St. Louis City Church Extension and Mis- 
sionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal 
Churches of St. Louis. In 1888 he was 
associated with Dr. L. H. Laidley and others 
in the purchase of the "old Dyer mansion," 
and the founding therein of the Protestant 
Hospital, an admirable institution. He is a 
life member of the Young Men's Christian 
Association. Has been identified with fra- 
ternal organizations as a member of Occi- 
dental Lodge, No. 163, of the Masonic order ; 
the Royal Arcanum ; the Royal League, of 
which he was president during the year 
1895 ; and the Legion of Honor, and is a 
member of the Mercantile Club. Business 
address, 1005 Chestnut street; residence 
address, 5029 Morgan street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES WAITE RUTLEDGE. 

Charles Waite Rutledge. Lawyer. 
Among the leading practitions of the St. 
Louis Bar who have been highly successful 
in his profession, conspicuous and promi- 
nenent, is the name of Charles Waite Rut- 
ledge, and he has established for himself an 
enviable name in all of his endeavors in his 
business career, and among the acquaintance 
of his many friends. Born in Hillsboro, 
111, March 16, 1870, a son of Thomas Jef- 
ferson and Sylvia (Bennett) Rutledge, he 
acquired his education in the Hillsboro pub- 
lic schools, graduating at the Hillsboro 
Academy in 1888, and later attending the 
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Louis, Mo., graduating at the latter institu- 
tion in 1896. One of his ancestors, Edward 
Rutledge, who was his great-great-grand- 
father, signed the Declaration of Independ- 
ence; was governor of South Carolina dur- 
ing the Revolutionary war; contributed his 
entire fortune of $30,000 to buy ammunition, 
etc., to defend Charleston, S. C, during the 
siege of the same war, which resulted in 
the sinking of the English ships in Charles- 
ton harbor. Some of the canon from these 
ships are now mounted in Lafayette Park, 
St. Louis. He was a lawyer educated in 
London, England, and came to the United 
States about 1751, with his brother, John 
Rutledge, and both settled in South Caro- 
lina. John Rutledge, the brother mentioned, 
signed the Constitution of the United States, 
was appointed as associate justice on the 
bench of the United States Supreme Court 
in 1789, and appointed chief justice of the 
Supreme Court in 1795. Ancestors have 
been lawyers from the father of Edward 
Rutledge, with the exception of his grand- 
father, who was a farmer. 

Charles Waite Rutledge located in Mis- 
souri in 1889, from the state of Illinois, and 
engaged in the real estate business in St. 
Louis, where he took up his permanent resi- 
dence from 1890 until 1895. He was con- 
nected with W. J. Lewis in the real estate 
business from 1890 to 1892. Tlien with the 
George Dausman Real Estate Company until 
1893, when he went into business for him- 
self. In 1894 he began studying law in St. 
Louis, and completed his law studies in tl)e 
St. Louis Law School, and gave up the real 
business altogether in 1896. In his business 
career he has established an undeviating rec- 
titude with his fellowmen, which commends 
him to their confid^ce. Although devoted 
to his profession, and has conducted manyi 



important cases, he is known also as a kind, 
congenial, aggressive and public spirited citi- 
zen. He is a member of the St. Louis Ham- 
ilton Republican Club; president of the 
Twenty-fourth Ward Republican League 
Club; president of the Republican Voters' 
League of the Twenty-fourth ward, and ever 
since his residence in St. Louis has been 
active in political affairs and aided his party 
greatly in all political campaigns. 

Mr. Rutledge was married July 5, 1895, 
to ]\Iiss Florence N. ]\Iorse, in Springfield, 
III. Business address, 214 Wainwright 
building; residence address, 3658 Flad ave- 
nue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WINFIELD S. POPE. 

Winfield S. Pope. Lawyer. Born July 
20, 1847, near Thomasville, Davidson coun- 
ty, N. C. Educated in the country schools 
and academies of his native state, and at- 
tended the military academy at Hillsborough, 
N. C. After completing his education he 
removed to Missouri in 1866, taught school 
in Webster county, and in February, 1867, 
was admitted to the bar. He removed to 
Hartville, Wright county, Mo., and suc- 
cessfully practiced his profession from the 
spring of 1867 to January i, 1875. He rep- 
resented Wright county in the Legislature 
in 1873 and 1874, taking up his permanent 
residence in Jefferson City, Mo., in 1875, 
where he has practiced his profession ever 
since. He represented Cole county in the 
Legislature in 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900. 
Assisted in the revision of the statutes of 
Missouri of 1899. Was one of the revisors 
selected by the Legislature to perform that 
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practice where he resides and in several 
counties outside of his residence, and is 
known as an able criminal, as well as civil 
and business, lawyer, and does a general 
practice. He affiliates with the Democratic 
party, but has never had any thirst for pub- 
lic office and prefers to devote his time to the 
practice of law rather than to receive po- 
litical preferments. 

Mr. Pope was married to Lucy Miller at 
Jefferson City on the 19th of June, 1873. 
Children : Mrs. Horace B. Church, Jr., Mrs. 
Alfred S. Hawkins, Mrs. F. M. Cockral, Jr. 
Business address, Jefferson City, Missouri. 



L. and Charles K. Ramsey. Business ad- 
dress, Wainwright building; residence ad- 
dress, 5632 Cabanne, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES KIRKPATRICK RAMSEY. 

Charles Kirkpatrick Ramsey. Architect. 
Born March 22, 1845, i" Godfrey, 111. Son 
of John and Mary (Kirkpatrick) Ramsey. 
Educated in the public schools, Wyman's 
City University and Washington University. 
He began the study of architecture, first as 
a builder. After a theoretical training in 
college he went to Europe and studied. Re- 
turned to St. Louis in 1870 and opened up an 
office where he has been engaged ever since. 
He is the designer and architect of the fol- 
lowing buildings : Houser building and 
Coliseum, and together with Adler & Sul- 
livan, designed and erected the Wainwright 
building. Union Trust building and the St. 
Nicholas Hotel. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order, K. P., and Legion of 
Honor. In religious belief he is a Lutheran, 
in politics a Republican. 

Mr. Ramsey was married in 1876 at 
Lexington, Mo., to Miss Adda L. Long. 
Children : Mabel C, Jessie L., Allen, Ada 



ISAAC B. ROSENTHAL. 

Isaac B. Rosenthal. Wholesale millinery 
merchant. Born January 6, 1849, in Ger- 
many. Son of Bernhard and S. (Acker- 
man) Rosenthal. Educated in the public 
and private schools of Germany. He is a 
member of the Rosenthal-Sloan Millinery 
Company, established January i, 1877. In 
1863 he was a clerk in San Francisco, Cal. 
In business in New York about 1867; in bus- 
iness in Scranton, Pa., in 1868; in business 
in St. Louis in 1877, ^^ which time he en- 
tered the firm of I. B. Rosenthal & Co. 

Mr. Rosenthal is a member of the Co- 
lumbian Club and the Mercantile Club. He 
is Jewish in religious belief. In politics he 
is a Republican. He was married August 3, 
1870, in Scranton, Pa., to Miss Carrie Lip- 
schutz. Children born, one son, Ray, and 
two daughters, one living. Business ad- 
dress, 1015 Washington avenue; residence 
address, 3962 Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



EDWARD C. SIMMONS. 

Edward C. Simmons. Advisory director 
of the Simmons Hardware Company. Born 
September 21, 1839, in Frederick, Md. Son 
of Zachariah T. and Louise (Helfenstein) 
Simmons. 

Mr. Simmons came to St. Louis in 1846 
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and at the age of sixteen entered the employ 
of Childs, Piatt & Co., hardware merchants. 
After serving a three years' apprenticeship 
to the hardware business in this connection, 
he entered the employ of Wilson, Levering 
& Waters, a new firm on Main street. Four 
years later Mr. Simmons was admitted to a 
partnership in the firm of Levering, Waters 
& Co. Owing to changes in the firm it be- 
came known as Waters, Simmons & Co., and 
later, in 1872, as the firm of E. C. Simmons 
& Co. This partnership was succeeded in 
1874 by the corporation which took the name 
of the Simmons Hardware Company, now 
conducting the largest hardware business in 
the world. Mr. Simmons was one of the 
first hardware merchants of the country to 
put traveling salesmen in the field, and it 
is now said that he has employed more sales- 
men in this capacity than any other man in 
America. It is also asserted that there is 
not a more systematically conducted house in 
the United States than that of the Simmons 
Hardware Company. On January i, 1898, 
owing to advanced years and impaired 
health, Mr. Simmons resigned the presi- 
dency of the company, his son succeeding 
him. Mr. Simmons has been a factor in 
bringing trade from remote sections to St. 
Louis, having more than two hundred sales- 
men who have been sent into not less than 
forty states and territories, in all of which 
they have done a large and profitable busi- 
ness. In addition to his merchandising oper- 
ations he has been a director of the Coat- 
man's Bank for seventeen years; was for a 
time a director in the St. Louis National 
Bank, and is now a director in the National 
Bank of Commerce, the largest financial in- 
stitution in the United States. He has also 
been a director of the St. Louis Trust Com- 
pany since its organization. During the 



years 1880 and 1881 he was a member of 
the St. Louis Police Board. 

Mr. Simmons was married in 1866 to 
Miss Carrie Welch, daughter of George W. 
and Lucy Welch, of St. Louis. Of five chil- 
dren born to them, two daughters have died. 
Mr. Simmons is an active member of the 
Episcopal Church. Business address, Ninth 
and Spruce streets; residence address, 21 
West Moreland Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LEWIS REXARD. 



Lewis Renard. Secretary of the Tror- 
licht, Duncker & Renard Carpet Company. 
Born October i, 1S54, in Berlin, Germany. 
Son of Charles and Helene (Rosenstock) 
Renard. Educated in the colleges of Ger- 
many from 1861 to 1866; public schools of 
St. Louis from October 15, 1866, to April i, 
1867. 

Mr. Renard began his business career as 
a cash boy in the firm of Geo. Jorgensen, St. 
Louis, Mo., and afterwards was cashier and 
bookkeeper, and finally became interested in 
the firm of Trorlicht, Duncker & Renard 
Carpet Company, in January, 1880. He is 
a member of the above named firm composed 
of the following members : Henry Duncker, 
president ; C. H. Duncker, vice-president ; 
Lewis Renard, secretary. The firm be- 
came an incorporated company Decem- 
ber 29, 1890. The firm does a large and 
extensive business in jobbing and retailing 
carpets and curtains. Since the time of his 
location, in 1866, in America he has been a 
wide awake, public spirited and aggressive 
business man; outside of a business way is 
very prominent as a social man. He is a 
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clubs of St. Louis. In religious belief he is 
a Hebrew, and in politics a Republican. 

Mr. Renard was married at St. Louis, 
Mo. Children : Helen, Blanche and Wallace. 
Business address. Fourth and Washington 
avenue; residence address, 4463 Westmin- 
ster Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ADOLPHUS BUSCH. 

Adolphus Busch. Manufacturer. Born 
in 1842, near the city of Mainz, capital of the 
Province of Rhine-Hesse, Germany. Born 
and reared under favorable auspices, Adol- 
phus Busch enjoyed superior educational ad- 
vantages, completing his scholastic course of 
study at one of the noted collegiate institutes 
of Belgium, which afforded him an excep- 
tionally good opportunity for perfecting his 
knowledge of the French language. His first 
practical business experience was obtained 
soon after he left college, in connection with 
the lumber trade, but at the end of a year 
devoted to this employment he went to 
Cologne, the largest of the cities of the 
Rhine Province, and there became connected 
■with a large mercantile house. While in the 
employ of this house he worked his way up 
to a leading position in the establishment in 
a comparatively short time. He came to the 
United States, and arrived in St. Louis 
shortly before the beginning of the Civil 
^var, and having decided to make this city 
his home, connected himself first with a 
wholesale commission house. When the 
war began, he had been in the country long 
■enough to have well defined views in regard 
to the merits of the great controversy be- 
tween the Federal government and the south- 
ern states, and in common with the great 



majority of the German-Americans of Mis- 
souri, warmly espoused the national cause, 
serving fourteen months as a Union soldier. 
When he attained his majority he received 
from his father's estate sufficient means to 
enable him to establish in St. Louis a brewing 
supply business of considerable magnitude, 
which he continued until 1866, in which year 
he formed a partnership with Eberhard An- 
heuser, and turned his attention to the busi- 
ness which has since made his name familiar 
throughout the entire commercial world. 
Adolphus Busch was master of the situation, 
and at once this enterprise, with which he had 
become connected, felt the vivifying effect of 
his mental force, his commercial acumen, 
and his plendid executive ability. Through 
various agencies which he established the 
trade of the brewery soon leaped far beyond 
its original bounds. The plant itself began 
to expand in various directions and has re- 
sulted in the evolution of the largest brewing 
establishment in the United States, and the 
largest but one in the world, which is the 
property of the Anheuser-Busch Brewing 
Company, in St. Louis. This great plant, 
whose manufactures are counted by train 
loads, and whose fame has extended into 
every land, is a monument to the masterful 
ability of Adolphus Busch. He has been the 
executive head of the corporation ever since 
it came into existence, and while he has 
drawn about him a host of able lieutenants, 
he has been the controlling mind, the guiding 
intellect of this vast business. In addition to 
being president of the Anheuser-Busch 
Brewing Company, he is president of the 
South Side Bank, the Manufacturers' Rail- 
road Company, and the St. Louis Refriger- 
ating Company. He is a director, also, in 
many banking institutions, in the Merchants' 
Bridge Company, and the Terminal Railroad 



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Company. He founded the Adolphus Busch 
Glass Company, of St. Louis and Belle- 
ville, 111., and the Streator Bottle & Glass 
Company, of Streator, 111., in each of which 
he is chief stockholder. Owns a controlling 
interest in the Lone Star Brewing Company, 
of San Antonio, Te.xas ; the American Brew- 
ing Association, of Houston, Texas ; the Gal- 
veston Brewing Company, of Galveston, 
Texas ; and the Texas Brewing Company, of 
Fort Worth, Te.xas; is part owner of Wil- 
liam Garrel's Iron & Stave Company, which 
has forty thousand acres of timber land in 
Tennessee and Arkansas; has also hundreds 
of ice manufacturing plants in different parts 
of the United States. 

Mr. Busch was married in 1861 to Miss 
Lilly Anheuser, daughter of his early friend 
and business partner, whose name is still re- 
tained at the head of the great brewing en- 
terprise, although he passed away many years 
ago. Business address. Sixth street, north- 
west corner of Locust ; residence address, i 
Busch Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN CALVIN ROBERTS. 

John Calvin Roberts. Shoe manufact- 
urer. Born December 17, 1853, in Ready- 
ville, Tenn. Son of James M. and Louisa 
(Conley) Roberts. Educated in the Wood- 
bury College, Woodbury, Tenn. He is a 
member of the Roberts, Johnson & Rand 
Shoe Company, and vice-president of the 
same, and director in the Missouri-Lincoln 
Trust Company, and Lincoln Trust & Title 
Company. The former business was estab- 
lished in 1898. They are manufacturers of 
high grade boots and shoes in St. Louis, Mo. 
Mr. Roberts is a member of the St. Louis 



Club, Mercantile Club, Glen Echo Club and 
Country Club. In religious belief he is non- 
sectarian. In politics a Democrat. 

Mr. Roberts was married August 5, 
1889, in Lake IMinatonka, Alinn., to Miss 
Anna Kiser. Two children have been born 
to this union, Elsie AI. and John C, Jr. 
Business address. Tenth and Washington 
avenue; residence address, Buckingham 
Club, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CLINTON ROWELL. 

Clinton Rowell is one of the well known 
New England family of that name. He was 
educated in the common schools and acade- 
mies and Dartmouth College, New Hamp- 
shire, and he studied his profession in lUi- 
nois. In 1866 he located in St. Louis, and 
shortly afterwards formed a partnership with 
Daniel D. Fisher, under the style of Fisher 
& Rowell, which existed until January, 1899, 
when Mr. Fisher was elected judge of the 
Circuit Court. Soon after Mr. Rowell be- 
came senior member of the firm of Rowell 
& Ferris, in which Franklin Ferris was his 
partner. This firm continued until it was 
dissolved by the election of Mr. Ferris to the • 
Circuit bench. During more than a third 
of a century of his membership of the St. 
Louis bar he has grown steadily in power 
and success, and he has not permitted politics 
or business interests to divert him from his 
calling. Mr. Rowell, in the fall of 1893, 
went to the national capitol as one of the 
representatives of the financial, commercial 
and manufactural interests of St. Louis, to 
urge before a congressional committee the 
repeal of the silver purchase clause of the 
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tional Church, he is a strong and helpful 
supporter of its faith and its purposes. His 
social sympathies are broad, his convictions 
are arrived at logically, and when once 
formed are positive and hard to remove. He 
is a member of the St. Louis and Mercantile 
clubs, and of the Merchants' Exchange. 
Business address, 814 Rialto building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM E. WOODS. 

William E. Woods. Senior member of 
the Crescent Lumber Company. Born Feb- 
ruary 22, 1 86 1, in Shelby county, Ky. Son 
of Isaac M. and Virginia (Sea) Woods, 
both natives of the state named. The father, 
who is yet living, was descended from a 
North Carolina family. He was a farmer 
by occupation, and during the Civil war he 
was an ardent Union man, but was unable 
to perform military service on account of a 
physical injury. The son, William E., ac- 
quired his education in the common schools 
near his home, and in a private academy in 
Eminence, Ky., and graduated at the South- 
ern Business College at Louisville, Ky. In 
1883 he entered the employ of the Long-Bell 
Lumber Company, in a yard at McCune, 
Kans. At the opening of the new town of 
Kiowa, Kans., he established there a business 
for the same lirm, of which he had charge 
for two years. He then opened a yard for 
the same employer at Caney, Kans., which 
he operated until 1890, in that year becom- 
ing a resident of Kansas City, Mo., remain- 
ing in the employment of the same company 
and traveling in their interest. In 1892-93 
he was located in Oklahoma, when that terri- 
tory was opened for settlement. In 1893 '^^ 



was engaged in Kansas City for the Pacific 
Lumber Supply Company. Soon afterwards 
he bought the Schutte lumber yards, at Six- 
teenth and McGee streets, for the Dierks 
Lumber & Coal Company, and managed this 
for nearly two years. January 5, 1899, in 
association with Thomas B. Moore and The- 
odore B. Sherwood, he organized the Cres- 
cent Lumber Company, a partnership firm 
of which he is the senior member. The pro- 
ductions marketed is mainly yellow pine from 
their own sawmills at Janson, Ark., having 
a daily capacity of 65,000 feet. Mr. Woods 
has the general management of the busi- 
ness with offices in the Keith & Perry build- 
ing, Kansas City, Missouri. 

Mr. Woods is a member of the Grand 
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, and of 
the order of Modern Woodmen. He was 
married in 1886 to Miss Martha C. Neal, 
of Smithfield, Ky., daughter of Moses Neal, 
formerly president of the National Hotel, 
Louisville, Ky., who, during the Civil war, 
was a lieutenant in an Indiana regiment and 
was killed in battle at Jackson, Miss. Three 
children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Woods : Jeannette, Cecil and Helen. Busi- 
ness address, Keith & Perry building; resi- 
dence address, 2624 East Twenty-ninth 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WELLS H. BLODGETT. • 

Wells H. Blodgett. Lawyer, and third 
vice-president and general counsel for the 
Wabash Railroad Company. Born at Down- 
er's Grove, Du Page county, 111., January 
29, 1839. Son of Israel P. and Avis 
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count}-, then went for a short time to the 
Rock River Seminary, and afterward spent 
two years in the Ilhnois University, of 
Wheaton. Later went to Chicago and 
studied law under his brother, Henry W. 
Blodgett. He was then enrolled for three 
months as a private in a company com- 
manded by Captain C. C. Marsh. On the 
expiration of that term he enlisted again as a 
private in the Thirty-seventh Illinois Volun- 
teer Infantry. In October, 1861, he was 
made lieutenant of Company D, of that regi- 
ment. In the spring of 1862 he was made 
captain of the company, and in March, 1863, 
he was made judge advocate of the Army 
of the Frontier, with the rank of major of 
cavalry. In August, 1864, he was commis- 
sioned lieutenant-colonel of the Forty-eighth 
Regiment of Missouri Volunteer Infantry, 
and on October i, 1864, he was made its 
colonel. He was mustered out of the mili- 
tary service with his regiment in July, 1865. 
After the war had closed he settled at War- 
rensburg. Mo., and began the practice of his 
profession. In 1866 he was elected to rep- 
resent Johnson count}- in tlie lower house of 
the Legislature, where he served two ses- 
sions. In 1868 he was elected for a term of 
four years to represent his district. Al- 
though a Republican and an ex-soldier of the 
Union, he was one of the first in his party to 
advocate a repeal of tlie disfranchising and 
test oath clauses of the Drake Constitution 
of 1865. In the fall of 1873 he was offered 
the position of assistant attorney for the St. 
Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railway, 
which he accepted. In June, 1874, he was 
made general attorney of the company, which 
he continued in until 1879. when these lines 
w-ere consolidated with the Wabash railway, 
and he was then elected general solicitor of 
the consolidated company. In 1884 the 



roads of the system were placed in the hands 
of receivers appointed by the circuit courts 
of the United States, and he was appointed 
by the court as the legal adviser of those ofifi- 
cials. In 1889 the roads were reorganized 
under the name of the Wabash Railway 
Company, and Colonel Blodgett was again 
placed at the head of its legal department as 
general solicitor, and that position he still 
holds. 

In July, 1865, he married Miss Emma 
Dickson, of St. Louis. They have three 
children, two daughters and one son. Busi- 
ness address, 706 Chestnut street ; residence 
address, 5120 Washington avenue, St. Louis. 
Missouri. 



WALLACE D. SIMMONS. 

Wallace D. Simmons. President of the 
Simmons Hardw-are Company. Born No- 
vember 24, 1867, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of 
Edward C. and Carrie (Welch) Simmons. 
He was fitted for college in the primary de- 
partment of the Washington University, and 
under private tutorage, and in 1886 entered 
Yale College, from which institution he was 
graduated with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts in the class of 1890. January i, 1891, 
he entered the employ of the Simmons Hard- 
ware Company, and, notwithstanding the 
fact that his father was the founder and head 
of the house, he began as all employees of 
that establishment do, and took a thorough 
course of training for the business, serving in 
all the departments, including that of travel- 
ing salesman. Upon the resignation of one 
of the former officers he was made assistant 
treasurer of the company and held that posi- 
tion until Januarj' i, 1898, when his father 
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was then elected by the stockholders to the 
presidency, and still retains that position. 
This action of his business associates was a 
flattering testimonial to his ability as a man 
of affairs, and the distinction of being the 
official head of the greatest hardware house 
in the world is an honor such as is seldom 
conferred upon so young a man. He is a 
member of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 
in which he was confirmed in 1884. Busi- 
ness address. Ninth and Spruce streets ; resi- 
dence address, 4638 Berlin avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



WILLIA:\I J. KIXSELLA. 

William J. Kinsella, president of the 
Hanley & Kinsella Coffee & Spice Company, 
was born in County Carlow, Ireland, in 1846, 
a son of Patrick and Ellen (Keating) Kin- 
sella. He received his education from the 
schools of his native town and St. Patrick's 
College. He started in his early business 
career in the wholesale house of A. F. Mc- 
Donald & Co., of Dublin, one of the largest 
and most widely known establishments in the 
city. At nineteen years of age he came to 
New York, applying for employment at 
the famous dry goods house of A. T. Stew- 
art & Co., and was given the position as 
wrapper of bundles. He retained this posi- 
tion until resigning for a better place with 
the firm of Hamilton, Easter & Sons, of Bal- 
timore, where he remained until 1870, when 
he, with a brother, established himself in a 
retail grocery business at Cleveland, Ohio. 
After a time Mr. Kinsella came to St. Louis, 
where he became an employe of the firm of 
Porter, Worthington & Co. This connec- 
tion, although successful, was dissolved by 



Mr. Kinsella to accept the position of mana- 
ger of the Kingsford Oswego Starch Com- 
pany, of St. Louis, and in 1897 the Thomp- 
son-Taylor Spice Company, of Chicago, 
placed him in charge of the St. Louis branch 
of its business. Two years later he pur- 
chased this business as head of the firm of 
W. J. Kinsella & Company. The trade 
expanded rapidly and in 1886 the enterprise 
was incorporated as the Hanley & Kinsella 
Coffee & Spice Company, of which Mr. Kin- 
sella is the president and executive head. 
This enterprise has proven highly beneficial 
in a large degree to the general trade of St. 
Louis, which is today one of the leading 
spice markets in the United States, and one 
of the largest coffee markets in the world, 
and the building up of this trade has been 
greatly due to the enterprise of Mr. Kinsella. 
He has served as vice-president of the West- 
ern Commercial Travelers' Association, be- 
longs to the Associated Wholesale Grocers 
and Business Men's League, and is a mem- 
ber of the Mercantile Club, the Royal Ar- 
canum and the Knights of St. Patrick. 

Air. Kinsella was married in 1880 to 
Miss Nellie Hanley, of New York, and has 
three children : William Hanley, Dalton 
Louis and Ella Marie Kinsella. Business 
address, 713 Spruce street; residence ad- 
dress, 4232 West Pine boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JOHN B. C. LUCAS. 

John B. C. Lucas. Banker. Born De- 
cember 30, 1847. Son of James H. and 
Marie E. Lucas. He was educated at Seaton 
Hall College and eastern institutions of 
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cipal manager of his father's estate, he has 
always been one of the largest representatives 
of real estate and other property interests in 
St. Louis. He was most prominently iden- 
tified for some years with the banking inter- 
ests of the city, and devoted a large share 
of his time to the affairs of the Citizens' 
Bank, of which he was president prior to its 
consolidation with the Merchants Laclede 
National Bank and the American Exchange " 
Bank in 1897. President of the St. Louis, 
St. Charles & Western railroad; vice-presi- 
dent of the St. Louis & St. Charles Coun- 
try Bridge Company, Commonwealth Trust 
Company, Lucas Realty Company and Cal- 
vary Cemetery Association. 

The same spirit which actuated his sire 
and grandsire has governed J. B. C. Lucas 
in all the relations which he has sustained to 
St. Louis as a business man and citizen. 
His father, whose ideas were broadly liberal, 
and whose instincts were generous and phil- 
an thropic, planned for the future, and left 
much important work to be carried forward 
by the son for the public good. These trusts 
and obligations he has discharged in strict 
accordance with the spirit of their conception, 
and through him his illustrious ancestors still 
continue to be public benefactors. In tastes, 
manners and disposition Mr. Lucas is much 
of an old-school gentleman, easily ap- 
proached, genial in his intercourse with 
friends and business associates, and always 
kindly and sympathetic in his dealings with 
those who enjoy few of fortune's favors. 
Fondness of outdoor sports is one of his dis- 
tinguishing characteristics, hunting and fish- 
ing being his favorite recreations, and he in- 
dulges his tastes in this direction with a reg- 
ulation go\-erned by the seasons for such 
sportsmanlike pastimes. 

Mr. Lucas was married in 1876 to Miss 



Mary C. Morton. His children are four 
daughters and two sons. Business address, 
709 Chestnut street ; residence address, 4495 
West Pine boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JULIUS JOHN SCHOTTEN. 

Julius John Schotten. Merchant and 
manufacturer. Born June 9, 1858, in St. 
Louis, Mo. Son of William and Wilhel- 
mina (Verborg) Schotten. After attending 
St. Mary's School and St. Louis University 
until he was fifteen years of age, he entered 
the employ of the Iron Mountain Bank, of 
St. Louis, as bookkeeper. After serving the 
bank faithfully and efficiently for two years, 
he left it to become connected with the man- 
ufacturing and commercial house which had 
been established and built up by his father. 
In the fall of 1897, and after the death of 
iiis brother, the active management of the 
business devolved upon Julius J. Schotten, 
since which time he has been sole proprietor 
of the firm which bears the name of William 
Schotten & Co., established in 1847. This 
house is now famous for the high quality of 
its products, and as importers and wholesale 
dealers in teas, coffees and spices the firm is 
well known to the trade, both domestic and 
foreign, and where known is thorouglily ap- 
preciated for its admirable business methods 
and the high character and integrity of those 
having its interests in charge. Mr. Schotten 
has contributel largely to the upbuilding of 
this establishment, and has made for himself 
an enviable reputation in the business world. 
His religious affiliations are with the Cath- 
olic Church, and during the years of 1896 
and 1897 he was president of the Marquette 
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St. Louis, composed of members of the Cath- 
olic Cliurch. 

On November 15, 1881, he married Miss 
PauHne C. Feldman, daughter of John A. 
Feldman. Their children are Jerome J. and 
Zoe Louise Schotten. Business address, 300 
South Broadway; residence address, Hotel 
Monticello, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN W. WOFFORD. 

John W. Wofiford, of Kansas City, Mo., 
was born in Georgia, August 14, 1837, and 
received his educational training in the coun- 
try schools of the neighborhood of his birth. 
To this eiducation he) has added what he 
could by constant reading from his youth to 
the present day. At the commencement of 
the Civil War, in which he served to the end, 
he enlisted in the Confederate army as a pri- 
vate. In November, 1862, he was elected 
second lieutenant of his company, and in 
April, 1863, was advanced to the position of 
first lieutenant and adjutant of his regiment 
by James A. Sedden, secretary of war. He 
participated in many important operations 
and campaigns and was seriously wounded 
at North Ann River, in Virginia, May 23, 
1864. In March, 1866, he was admitted to 
the bar as a practitioner at law, and practiced 
there until he came to Missouri early in the 
year 1877. While a resident of Georgia he 
was elected to the lower house of the Lemsla- 
ture in 1870, and two years later was elected 
to the Senate from three of the strongest 
counties of the state without a vote being cast 
against him. Legislative work not being con- 
genial to his taste he resigned the last 
named office in 1875. The following year 
he was a delegate from the state at large to 



the National Democratic Convention held at 
St. Louis, and voted in that convention for 
the nomination of Samuel J. Tilden to the 
office of president of the United States. The 
same year he was chosen an elector for the 
state at large, and voted in the electoral col- 
lege of Georgia for Tilden and Hendricks. 
Upon settling in Kansas City, in 1877, he 
continued the practice of law until July, 1892, 
when Governor David R. Francis appointed 
him judge of the Criminal Court in Jackson 
county, in which Kansas City is situated, and 
in the November following he was elected by 
the people to a full term of six years in the 
same important position, and was re-elected 
in November, 1898, and still holds this office. 
It is believed that he will again be elected to 
this position in November, 1904. Business 
address, second floor court house; residence 
address, 1012 Vine street, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



JOHN I. MARTIN. 



John I. Martin. Lawyer. Born May 24, 
1848, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of William and 
Frances (Irwin) Martin. Until he was 
fourteen years of age he attended the public 
schools of the city, and then began earning 
his own living by driving a team for his 
father, who was engaged in the drayage 
business. While thus employed he managed 
to supplement his educational attainments by 
a commercial course, and later became a ship- 
ping clerk and salesman for a large grain and 
commission house. Subsequently he en- 
gaged in merchandising on his own account, 
and attained prominence as a man of affairs, 
and in politics. He served three terms as a 
member of the Missouri House of Represen- 
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elected speaker pro-tem of that body and be- 
fore the Legislature adjourned he received a 
unanimous vote of thanks and was presented 
with a magnificent gold watch chain and 
gavel. He read law under the preceptorship 
of Col. Robert S. McDonald, one of Mis- 
souri's most eminent jurists, and in 1876 he 
was admitted to the bar in the Circuit Court 
of St. Louis. In 1879 he was enrolled as a 
member of the United States Supreme Court 
Bar upon the motion of Hon. Montgomery- 
Blair. At different times he has occupied 
the bench in the Court of Criminal Correc- 
tion as a provisional judge, and he has be- 
come popularly known as Judge Martin. His 
personal popularity brought him business, 
and his forensic ability gave him a success 
which soon placed him in the highest ranks 
of the profession, a position he still holds. 
Judge Martin as attorney for assessment 
benevolent associations, made a splendid rep- 
utation in their great fight with the State 
Insurance Commission of Missouri in 1888. 
He has been for many years, and is now, 
assistant judge advocate general for the 
Uniform Rank Knights of Pythias of Mis- 
souri, and is the chairman of the committee 
on statutory legislation for the jMissouri Fra- 
ternal Congress, and has been such since its 
institution in 1898. Prominent in fraternal 
organizations he has held executive positions 
with the Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias, 
Knights of Honor, the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen and other fraternities. In 
politics he is Democratic, and has served his 
party faithfully. In 1876 he was among the 
managers of the Tilden presidential cam- 
paign, and in 1884 he was a Democratic pres- 
idential elector, and was chosen as a messen- 
ger to convey the vote of Missouri to the 
electoral college at Washington. In 1888 
he was grand marshal of the great Demo- 



cratic parade given in St. Louis during the 
session of the Democratic National Conven- 
tion of that year, and has been the grand 
marshal of many of the largest parades and 
demonstrations held in St. Louis during the 
past twenty-five years. In 1896 he was ser- 
geant-at-arms of the Democratic National 
Committee and the convention held in Chi- 
cago; was unanimously re-elected for the 
Kansas City Association in 1900, and in St. 
Louis in 1904, and is now the sergeant-at- 
arms of the committee for the next four 
years by its unanimous vote. In the early 
years of his life he commanded the celebrated 
military battalion, "Shaw Guard," of St. 
Louis, winning distinction as a disciplinarian 
and commander, and for a number of years- 
served on the staff of Gen. H. C. Clark, 
brigade commander of the ^Missouri National 
Guards, and later as inspector of small arms 
practice on General Clark's staff. When 
Missouri's regiments assembled at Jefferson 
Barracks before going to the front to fight 
the Spaniards during the recent war, CoL 
John I. Martin did much for the comfort of 
the men, and when the citizens of St. Louis 
formed an organization for the purpose of 
welcoming home the soldiers returning from 
this war, Calonel Martin was made chair- 
man of the cgmmittee, composed of the 
mayor of St. Louis, eminent professional 
men and leading merchants, who entertained 
and fed nearly nineteen thousand soldiers 
who were en route home through St. Louis. 
He was appointed by Governor Stephens as 
one of the delegates from Missouri to the 
World's Fair Convention held in St. Louis 
January 10, 1899. He was selected by the 
convention as chairman of the committee on 
credentials, and subsequently represented the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company at 
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states in the interest of the "Temple of Fra- 
ternity," which was erected on the World's 
Fair grounds by all the fraternal associations 
in America as a house of public comfort and 
where the fraternities welcomed and enter- 
tained their membership and guests. 

Colonel Martin married Miss Clara E. 
La Barge, whose parents and grandparents 
were born in St. Louis, and is the father of 
seven children. Business address, 1 1 1 5 
Clark avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN E. McKEIGHAN. 

John E. McKeighan. Lawyer. Born 
near the little town of Farmington, Fulton 
county, III, July 20, 1841. Son of Robert 
and Ella ( Tuttle) McKeighan. He was 
given good educational advantages, begin- 
ning in the district school near his home, and 
from there went to Knox College, at Gales- 
burg, 111., where he made preparations for a 
university course. Entered the University 
of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and graduated 
from there in June, 1866. Later decided to 
adopt the law as his profession, and with this 
purpose in view entered the office of Martin 
Shellenberger, at Toulon, 111., and in May, 
1867, was admitted to the bar at Ottawa, 111. 
He first located for practice at Bolivar, Polk 
county, Mo. ; within a few months removed 
to Ba.xter Springs, Kans., and in March, 
1871, formed a partnership with H. C. Mc- 
Comas and located at Fort Scott, Kans. This 
partnership continued up until 1881, when 
Mr. McComas removed to Silver City, New 
Mexico. Mr. McKeighan's next partnership 
was with Silas B. Jones, which lasted until 
January i, 1885, when he entered into part- 
nership with Judge Wilbur F. Boyle and 



Judge Elmer B. Adams. This was dissolved 
January i, 1892, by Mr. McKieghan's with- 
drawal to become a member of the firm of 
Lee, McKeighan, Ellis & Priest, which was 
later dissolved, and after this Messrs. Lee 
and McKeighan continued the business of the 
late firm until Major Lee's death, in the 
spring of 1897. February i, 1898, the part- 
nership was formed, lasting three years, 
wherein Mr. McKeighan associated himself 
with Judge Shepard Barclay and M. F. 
Watts. At the expiration of this firm the 
partnership was changed January i, 1905, 
to McKeighan, Wood & Watts, Judge 
Wood, the new member, was eight years 
judge of the Circuit Court, city of St. Louis. 
Mr. McKeighan is identified with many 
movements of a public character, notably the 
Fall Festivities Association, and the Citizens' 
Smoke Abatement Association. In legal cir- 
cles he is recognized as one of the state's 
greatest authorities on constitutional law. 
He is a man of liberal views, high ideals and 
aesthetic taste. He was married November 
2, 1869, to Miss Helen M. Cutler, of Kala- 
mazoo, Mich. They have had three children, 
Robert, Majael and Ellen McKeighan. After 
the death of Mrs. McKeighan he was again 
married in 1899, to Mrs. Ida P. Hunt, who 
had two children, Miss Viola and Miss Jane 
Hunt. Business address, suite 805, Mis- 
souri Trust building, St. Louis. Missouri. 



HARRY MARVIN HUNDLEY. 

Harry Marvin Hundley, one of the lead- 
ing merchants and prominent citizens of St. 
Joseph, senior partner of the great mercan- 
tile house of Hundley-Smith Dry Goods 
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interests, was born January 30, 1868, and 
is a son of the late John Hundley. 

Mr. Hundley was educated in the com- 
mon and high schools of St. Joseph, and soon 
after completing his education became an 
employee of the wholesale dry goods house 
of McKinney, Hundley & Walker, of which 
firm his late father was a mem.ber. Begin- 
ning at the bottom, he thoroughly mastered 
every detail of the wholesale business and, 
in 1893, when the former firm was succeeded 
by Kemper, Hundley & McDonald, he was 
advanced to a responsible position, and in 
1896 was elected president and treasurer. 
In the following year the present style of 
Hundley-Smitli Dry Goods Company was 
adopted, Mr. Hundley continuing at the 
head. He is recognized as one of the city's 
most reliable as well as able business men. 
The company has but recently removed into 
larger, more commodious and more modern 
quarters, securing increased floor space and 
expanding its scope, these improvements re- 
quiring many tra\'eling representatives and 
a large addition to the home working force. 
It stands well at the head of the jobbing con- 
cerns in St. Joseph, and probably occupies the 
largest structures. Much of the company's 
success is due to Mr. Hundley's enterprise 
and executive ability. 

On October 21, 1891, Mr. Hundley was 
married to Mary Esther Pindell, of St. 
Joseph. 

Our subject has long been one of the most 
active members of the Commercial Club of 
St. Joseph, and he has demonstrated his pub- 
lic spirit on many occasions when loyalty to 
the city was demanded. His work was espe- 
cially valued and effective in the formulation 
and perfection of plans for the jubilee in 
1898, and equally so in 1S99. He is promi- 
nently identified with the Hundley Methodist 



Episcopal Church, and a member of its offi- 
cial body. His late father, John Boring 
Hundley, was the generous benefactor who 
made the erection of this stately edifice possi- 
ble, and in loving memory of him the church 
was named. There is scarcely any other 
name held in higher esteem in St. Joseph, 
standing, as it does, for business integrity 
and high personal character. Business ad- 
dress, 202 North Fourth street, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES F. GAUSS. 

Charles F. Gauss. President of the 
Gauss-Hurricke Hat Company. Born May 
30, 1838, in St. Charles county. Mo. Son 
of Charles W. and Louisa A. (Fallenstein) 
Gauss. Educated in the private schools in 
Sharron county, and Brunswick and Glas- 
gow, Mo., also St. Louis. He has occupied 
the position of office boy, stock and shipping 
clerk, and salesman for a wholesale dry goods 
and boot and shoe house, previous to enter- 
ing, in i860, a wholesale hat business as one 
of the members of the firm of Krausse, Hur- 
ricke & Gauss. Afterwards the Gauss-Shel- 
ton Hat Company ; Gauss, Hurricke & Co. ; 
The Gauss-Langenberg Hat Company, and 
now the Gauss-Hurricke Hat Company, of 
which he is president. He is a director in the 
following named institutions, viz. : Merch- 
ants-Laclede National Bank; Mercantile 
Trust Company, and American-Central In- 
surance Company. He is a member of the 
Noonday Club, St. Louis; St. Louis Club; 
St. Louis Country Club, and member of the 
Afasonic order. In politics he is inde- 
pendent. 

Mr. Gauss was married in 1861, in St. 
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who died in 1875. Children by this union, 
Ada, Emma, Louisa, Mary and Sadie Gauss. 
In 1879 he was again married to Miss Ida 
H. Smith. Business address, 824 Washing- 
ton avenue; residence address, 3661 Wash- 
ington avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM G. HALL, M. D. 

WilHam G. Hall, M. D., who has been 
engaged in the practice of medicine in the 
city of St. Joseph, Mo., for a period of more 
than forty years, was born in Pennsylvania, 
and received his early education in the 
schools of Pittsburg. He entered upon the 
study of medicine at an early age. In 1853 
and 1854 he attended Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege at Philadelphia. In 1858 he attended 
Western Reserve Medical College at Cleve- 
land, Ohio, under Professor Weber. He later 
attended Cleveland Homeopathic Medical 
College at Cleveland, from which he was 
graduated. He entered upon the practice of 
medicine in western Pennsylvania, and 
shortly afterwards at Chagrin Falls, Ohio, 
where he continued during the following 
seven years. During the Civil war he was 
assistant surgeon of the Tenth Regiment, 
Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. 

In 1865 Dr. Hall removed to St. Joseph, 
Mo., and practiced with much success until 
1885. In that year he established Dr. Hall's 
Sanitarium in that city, locating it in a mag- 
nificent stone and brick building, three stories 
high, with a frontage of eighty feet and a 
depth of fifty feet, the construction of which 
cost in the neighborhood of $75,000. It was 
well equipped, having Turkish, Russian, elec- 
tric needle and electro-thermal baths, and 
mechanical massage, and was fitted in an 



elaborate manner. It proved too great a step 
in advance of the times, and was doomed to 
failure after six years of varied success. The 
property was sold for $12,500. Since that 
time Dr. Hall has given his attention solely 
to office practice, making a specialty of gyne- 
cology, electro-therapeutics, orificial surgery 
and vibratory stimulation. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Homeopathy, a 
past president of the American Association of 
Orificial Surgery, and of the Missouri State 
Institute of Homeopathy, a member of the 
Kansas State Medical Society, and an hon- 
orary member of the Nebraska State Medical 
Society. He was at one time a member of 
the Missouri State Board of Health. 

In 1872 Dr. Hall was united in marriage 
with a daughter of Robert S. Carter. Mrs. 
Hall was a native of Kentucky, and later a 
resident of St. Joseph. She died June 2, 
1903, leaving one son, Edward Parks Hall, 
M. D. Business address, 49 Ballinger build- 
ing, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



CHARLES W. WHITEHEAD. 

Charles W. Whitehead, who is promi- 
nently identified with Kansas City's real 
estate interest, is a native of England, the 
date of his birth being November 20, 1842. 
At the age of four years he was brought to 
this country by his parents, who located in 
Orange county, N. Y. In the Empire State 
Charles W. was reared and educated. At 
an early age he entered upon an apprentice- 
ship at the harness and carriage trimmer's 
business, but before his apprenticeship was 
ended he enlisted in Company H, One Plun- 
dred and Twenty-fourth New York Regi- 
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to the surrender at Appomattox, his regiment 
being one of Fox's "Three Hundred Fight- 
ing Regiments" of the war. "Sir. Whitehead 
was present at the surrender of General Lee 
to the Federal commander. He participated 
in the grand review of the Army of the 
Potomac at the close of the war, and wit- 
nessed the review of Sherman's splendid 
army as it marched up Pennsylvania avenue, 
Washington. In 1892, when the Grand 
Army of the Republic held their national 
encampment at W'ashington, Mr. Whitehead 
was commander of the Department of Mis- 
souri, and rode at the head of the Union vet- 
erans over the same route traversed by him 
over a quarter of a century before. At the 
close of the war Mr. Whitehead returned to 
his old home in Xew York and embarked in 
partnership with the man who had been his 
instructor during his apprenticeship. In 
1 87 1 he came to Kansas City and engaged 
in the real estate business, and he has been 
thus occupied ever since. He has done much 
of permanent value, laying out additions to 
the city, building and inducing settlement. 
He has been prominently identified with the 
public life of the city. He served as president 
of the Real Estate and Stock Exchange, and 
was chairman of the appraisement committee 
for several years. In 1887 he assisted in the 
organization of the Union National Bank, 
of which he has since been a director. He is 
also president of the Missouri Union Trust 
Company; president of the Burwick Land 
Company, and secretary and treasurer of the 
Western Union Land Company. He was 
commander of the Department of Missouri, 
Grand Army of the Republic, in 1892-93. 
Associated in business with him is his son, 
Charles Hallock, a graduate of Princeton 
University. Mr. Whitehead's real estate and 
loan business was established in the year of 



1 87 1, and incorporated under the name of 
the Whitehead Realty Company in 1902, of 
which Mr. Whitehead is president, and his 
son, Charles Hallock, is vice-president and 
treasurer. Business address, 801 Wyandotte 
street; residence address, 3912 Troost ave- 
nue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



CHARLES F. HEWITT. 

Charles F. Hewitt, general superintend- 
ent of the St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat 
& Power Company, was born at Baltimore, 
Md., February 11, 1869, and is a son of Rev. 
John and Margaret J. (Pearson) Hewitt. 

Mr. Hewitt enjoyed exceptional educa- 
tional advantages in his boyhood and youth. 
He was the second son of the family, but did 
not subscribe to family tradition, choosing 
an entirely different career. From the old 
academical school at Bellefonte, Pa., he en- 
tered the University of Nebraska, where he 
completed the electrical, mechanical and engi- 
neering course, fitting himself for practical 
work in this line. He soon after entered the 
employ of the Western Engineering Com- 
pany and continued a year with this corpora- 
tion, installing electric light and power 
plants, and then took charge of the Lincoln 
(Nebraska) electric light plant. In the fall 
of 1889 he engaged with the Thomson-Hous- 
ton Electric Company, at Lynn, Mass. ; one 
year later went into their Boston office as 
constructing engineer, remaining there until 
1895, in which year he left the company's 
employ in order to accept the responsible 
one of superintendent of the Elmira (New 
York) Water, Light & Railway Company, 
this including the street railway and city 
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Elmira for six years, and then went to Elk- 
hart, Indiana, as manager of the St. Joseph 
& Elkhart Power Company, which controlled 
the South Bend and Elkhart Electric com- 
panies and the local street railway in Elkhart. 
Since 1904 he has occupied his present posi- 
tion, that of general superintendent of the 
St. Joseph Railway, Light, Heat & Power 
Company. His rise from one important posi- 
tion to another has been continuous and tells 
its own tale of faithfulness and capacity. 

Mr. Hewitt has a very pleasant home in 
St. Joseph. He married Edith Barnes, a 
daughter of Lucien Barnes, of Albany, N. Y., 
and they have two children. Mr. and Mrs. 
Hewitt are members of the Protestant Epis- 
copal Church. Mr. Hewitt belongs to a num- 
ber of fraternal organizations, and also to the 
Benton and Lotus clubs. Residence address, 
306 South Ninth street, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



mond Keirch. Business address, 615 Cen- 
tury building; residence address, 4621 Mor- 



gan street. 



ROBERT GEORGE KEIRCH. 

Robert George Keirch. Architect. Born 
July 6, i860, in Milwaukee, Wis. Son of 
Rudolph A. and Emelie (Wegner) Keirch. 
Educated in the high schools of Milwaukee, 
Wis., and took a business course in a com- 
mercial college in Michigan. Mr. Keirch 
had the good fortune to study hfs profession 
under his father, a renowned and leading 
architect of Milwaukee, as well as other men 
of the profession. Devoting his time to 
study, he soon became proficient in his voca- 
tion. He is a member of the Knights of 
Pythias. In religious belief he is a Lutheran, 
and is independent in politics. 

Mr. Keirch was married July 21, 1883, 
in Milwaukee, Wis., to Miss Mary E. 
Schneider. Two children, Meta and Ray- 



JAMES W. GARNER. 

James W. Garner. Attorney. Born Sep- 
tember 2, 1852, in Richmond, Ray county. 
Mo. Educated at Richmond College, Rich- 
mond, Mo. Studied law in the office of 
Doniphan & Garner. Admitted to the bar 
when twenty-four years old by Judge Phile- 
mon Lucas, judge of the Ray County Circuit 
Court. Practiced his profession there until 
May, 1 89 1. He then removed to Kansas 
City, Mo., where he has been in practice ever 
since. In 1882 elected prosecuting attorney 
of Ray county, Mo., and in 1884 re-elected 
to the same office, serving four years. He 
has prosecuted and defended some very con- 
spicuous cases in the history of the state, 
both in criminal and civil proceedings, which 
has placed him in the first rank as one of the 
able lawyers of the Kansas City bar. 

Mr. Garner is a member of the Independ- 
ent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Knights 
of Pythias. Has occupied all the chairs of 
the subordinate lodges in the Odd Fellows, 
and is a member of the Grand Lodge of Mis- 
souri. He was supreme president of the 
Knights and Ladies of the Fireside, elected in 
1897 and served until 1899. In 1895 ^"^ 
1896 was a member of the Democratic 
county committee of Jackson county. He 
was, in August, 1902, appointed associate 
city counsellor of Kansas City, Mo., and was 
re-appointed in April, 1904, for a term end- 
ing April, 1905. 

Mr. Garner has been twice married, the 
first time to Miss Leonora Snoddy, of How- 
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was born one child. After the death of his 
first wife, he married Miss Carrie Cotes, of 
Gainesburg, 111., by whom he has two chil- 
dren. Office address, 727 New York Life 
building; residence address, 420 Bellefon- 
taine street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FRANK A. FAXON. 



in the west. For the period of twenty years 
no laudable public or private enterprise has 
looked to him for advice or aid in vain. At 
present he is the senior member of the well 
known wholesale drug house of Faxon, Hor- 
ton & Gallagher, which has been in existence 
for many years and has an immense trade all 
over the western states. Much of the splen- 
did success and wide popularity of this house 
is due to the business acumen and strict and 
honorable business methods of Mr. Faxon. 



Frank A. Faxon, of Kansas City, Mc, 
was born in the old town of Scituate, Mass., 
in 1848. His ancestors settled in the Bay 
State long before the Revolution, and his 
grandfather participated in that memorable 
struggle in the army under Washington. 

In 1857 Mr. Faxon was taken by his 
parents to Lawrence, Kans., where he re- 
sided until 1878, when he removed to Kan- 
sas City, Mo. During this period he received 
a good business education, and was other- 
wise fitted for the duties of life. Since reach- 
ing manhood Mr. Faxon has ever taken an 
active and earnest part in his duties as a citi- 
zen, and has identified himself with many of 
the public movements which has made his 
city famous for its growth and solidity. He 
is the author of the Kansas City Commer- 
cial Club's motto, "Make Kansas City a good 
place to live in." He aided in the organiza- 
tion of the Commercial Club, and was elected 
its third president, a compliment which he 
thoroughly merited. He has served with 
great fidelity and credit in the city council, 
and is at present a member of the board of 
education. He has been prominent in all 
movements, the object of which has been to 
benefit the city as such or make its inhabi- 
tants happier and more prosperous. In com- 
mercial circles he stands among the leaders 



GEORGE A. MAHAN. 

George A. Mahan. Lawyer. Born Au- 
gust 6, 185 1, in Marion county, Mo. 
Son of George A. B. and Jennie (Griftith) 
Mahan. Educated in the public schools; 
graduate of Bethel College, 1868, Palmyra, 
Mo., and Washington Lee University, Lex- 
ington, Va. Graduate law department of 
the University of Indiana, degree LL. D. 
After graduating at law school began the 
practice of law in Hannibal I\Io., in 1874, 
where he has continued in the practice ever 
since, and now devotes much of his time to 
corporation law in the State, Federal and 
Appellate courts. Mr. Mahan was city attor- 
ney of Hannibal, Mo., in 1877; county at- 
torney of Marion county. Mo., from 1879 to 
1885; member of the Missouri Legislature 
1887-88. Director in and attorney for the 
Hannibal National Bank, Mutual Loan & 
Building Association and Hannibal Connect- 
ing Railway Company. Member of the Ma- 
sonic Order, Knights of Pythias. Demo- 
cratic in politics. 

Mr. Mahan married. May 24, 1883, in 
Hannibal, Mo., Miss Ida Dulany. One child. 





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Dulany Mahan, has been born to this union. 
Business address, Hannibal, Mo. Residence 
address, 1000 Broadway. 



DANIEL T. JEWETT. 

Daniel T. Jewett. Lawyer. Born in 
Pittston, Maine., September 14, 1807. Son 
of Daniel and Betsey (Tarbox) Jewett. His 
boyhood was passed upon his father's farm, 
where he grew to manhood. His early edu- 
cation was obtained in the ordinary district 
schools. At the age of nineteen he entered 
Waterville College, at Waterville, Maine. 
Two years later he went to Columbia College, 
at Washington, D. C. and after two years 
of study there he graduated in 1830 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Arts. After graduat- 
ing he located in Stafford county, Va., and 
gave lessons in Greek, Latin and algebra. 
Then taught a school in Amelia county, Va., 
in the meantime studying law with an hon- 
ored member of the Virginia bar. In 1833 
he returned to Maine and entered the Har- 
vard Law School. Later finished his law 
student's course in Bangor, Maine, and in 
April, 1834, was admitted to the bar. Began 
the practice of his profession in Bangor and 
soon became a factor in local affairs and was 
chosen city solicitor. In the fall of 1850 
accepted a partnership in an enterprise with 
his brother on the Isthmus of Panama, where 
he remained three years. In 1855 he re- 
turned to Bangor, and then visited the differ- 
ent cities of the west, and chose St. Louis, 
and in the spring of 1857 moved to that city. 
In i860 he formed a law partnership with 
the late Britton A. Hill, which continued 
until 1872. Since December, 1857, has been 
one of the most active members of the St. 



Louis Law Library Association. In 1866 he 
was elected to the State Legislature. In 
1870 he was appointed by Governor Mc- 
Clurg to fill a vacancy in the senatorial rep- 
resentation. He thus represented the state 
of Missouri i nthe United States Senate until 
March 4, 1871, when he was succeeded by 
Francis P. Blair. 

Mr. Jewett was married, in 1848, to 
Sarah Wilson, of Belfast, Maine. Mrs. 
Jewett died in November 1873, survived by 
two children, Eliot Conway Jewett, and 
Mary, wife of Edward A. Wilson, of Mapini, 
Mexico. Business address, 511 Pine street; 
residence address 2918 Morgan street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



DR. WASHINGTON JARVIS CONNER. 

Dr. Washinglon Jarvis Conner. Born 
November 12, 1866, at Kirksville, Mo. Son 
of David L. and Ann (Kimbrough) Conner. 
The paternal great-great-grandfather came 
to America in 1825 from Scotland. The 
mother of our subject was a native of the 
state of Kentucky. 

The education of Washington Jarvis 
Conner was acquired in the common schools 
of Adair county, Mo., and the State Normal 
School at Kirksville, Mo., attending the 
latter institution two years. He began teach- 
ing school in his twenty-first year, and taught 
for six years, to prepare for a medical course 
in the American School of Osteopathy, where 
he graduated in the class of 1896, with sev- 
eral prominent persons that have distin- 
guished themselves in their profession, 
among them are Dr. George Hellman, of 
New York City ; Dr. W. W. Steel, Buffalo, 
N. Y. and several others. The Doctor grad- 



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uated with second honor. He then began the 
practice of his profession at Kirksville, Mo., 
and became one of the members of the 
faculty of the American School of Osteop- 
athy, with which institution he remained for 
three years. He came to Kansas City May 
13, 1899, and has successfully practiced his 
profession ever since in that city. His oflSces 
are in the New York Life building. He is a 
member of the American Medical Osteop- 
athy Association, and the Missouri Medical 
Osteopathy Association. Is a Democrat in 
pilitics. 

Dr. Conner was married September 3, 
1893, at Bullion, Mo., to Miss Ida May Ken- 
nedy. Two children have been born to this 
union, Bessie and Gladys. Business address. 
New York Life building, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



MAC H. JOLLEY. 



Mac H. Jolley. Second vice-president 
of the Rosenthal-SIoan Manufacturing Com- 
pany. Born November 7, 1859, in Jefferson, 
Ohio. Son of Philip and Elvira (Jenkins) 
Jolley. Educated in the public schools at 
Hopedale, Ohio, and Hopedale (Ohio) Col- 
lege. He is a member of the Rosenthal-SIoan 
Millinery Company, composed of I. B. Ros- 
enthal, president; W. G. Sloan, first vice- 
president; Solomon Block, treasurer; J. C. 
Morall, secretary, and of which he is second 
vice-president. Established in 1888. Manu- 
facturers and jobbers of millinery goods. 
Previous to his entering the above company 
he was in the retail dry goods business, first 
with his father, at the age of fourteen, and 
at the age of twenty took charge of his 
father's business, continued in same for three 



years, sold out and came west, when after- 
wards he became interested in the above firm. 
In politics Mr. Jolley is a Republican. He 
was married November 9, 1887, in Abilene, 
Kans., to Miss Theo Keiser, and they have 
one son, Harold Taylor Jolley. Business 
address, 1015-19 Washington avenue; resi- 
dence address, 944 Laurel avenue. 



JOHN DAVIS JOHNSON. 

John Davis Johnson. Lawyer. Born at 
Belleville, 111., April 19, 1844. Son of Henry 
and Elvira (Fouke) Johnson. With a pub- 
lic school education, our subject completed 
his training at Belleville and McKindree col- 
leges, and then, in 1858, came to St. Louis. 
He continued his studies in that city, then 
the war came on and he was a warm and 
patriotic partisan of the Union. Was at 
first a member of the Nineteenth Missouri 
Infantry, but as the regiment was mustered 
in, enlisted with Battery F, of the Second Illi- 
nois Artillery; entered that service in 1861 
and remained until 1863; then mustered out 
to accept a commission as first lieutenant of 
the Thirty-eighth Missouri Infantry. In the 
year of 1864 returned to St. Louis and began 
the study of law, and accepted a position as 
clerk in the department of Quartermaster 
Metcalfe; next served for a short time as 
deputy county marshal ; following this he was 
appointed deputy clerk of the Court of Crim- 
inal Correction, which position he held until 
1871. In the meantime, in October, 1870. 
he had been admitted to the bar at St. Louis. 
Later he formed a partnership with Hon. 
Charles P. Johnson, and still later with Eben 
Richard, his, firm now being Johnson & Rich- 
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A. R., Frank P. Blair Post, and the Loyal 
Legion. He has devoted his talents exclu- 
sively to the civil law, is prominent in his 
profession and has achieved the, benefits of a 
splendid practice. He is logical in his ad- 
dress, a tireless worker, and to every detail 
of a case he gives special attention. 

Mr. Johnson has been married three 
times and has eight children. Business ad- 
dress, 6ii Bank of Commerce building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



RICHARD C. KERENS. 

Richard C. Kerens. Born in Ireland in 
1842. He was brought to this country by 
his parents while an infant, and while yet 
young his father died. He struggled from 
boyhood in a common school, and at the age 
of nineteen went into the government service 
with the Union army, where he was soon 
assigned to resposible duties in the transpor- 
tation department. In 1863 Mr. Kerens was 
transferred to thq^ west and participated in 
the campaigns in southwest Missouri. In 
1872 Mr. Kerens engaged in the transporta- 
tion of mails, express and passengers by 
stage coaches to points beyond the advance of 
railroads. In 1874 he began the operation 
of a southern overland mail, a service which 
covered 1,400 miles of frontier country. 
After railroads had superceded the stage 
coaches, Mr. Kerens moved to St. Louis. He 
is a stanch Republican and prominent in the 
councils of his party. In 1892 he was a dele- 
gate at large to the Minneapolis Republican 
National Convention, and was elected to rep- 
resent Missouri on the Republican national 
committee, and later was selected as one, 
of the nine on the executive committee 



Mr. Kerens has large mine interests 
in New Mexico, Colorado and Arrizona. 
In railroads he has had ownership in 
the Atchison system, the St. Louis South- 
western Railway, the West Virginia Central 
& Pittsburg Railway, the Eureka Springs 
Railroad and the Los Angeles Terminal Rail- 
way. Was appointed by President Harrison 
one of the three United States members of 
the International Railway Commission, and 
also appointed him commissioner at large to 
the World's Columbian Exposition at Chi- 
cago. In 1896 Mr. Kerens was again chosen 
to represent Missouri upon the Republican 
national committee. When the Legislature 
of Missouri assembled in January following 
he was made the caucus nominee and re- 
ceived the vote of the Republican represen- 
tatives and senators for United States sena- 
tor; and again in 1899, was nominatd by 
acclamation in the caucus and was the candi- 
date of the Republicans in that General x\s- 
sembly for United States senator. Business 
address, 220 North Fourth street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



EDWARD C. KEHR. 

Edward C. Kehr. Lawyer. Born No- 
vember 5, 1837, in St. Louis county. Mo., 
of German parentage. Was reared in the 
country, received a thorough academic edu- 
cation, and then studied law. He is the son 
of Adolph and Eliza Kehr. February 18, 
1858, he was admitted to the bar in St. Louis, 
and immediately afterward began the prac- 
tice of his profession in that city. He was 
well equipped for this profession, both by 
nature and education, and close application 
to the business of his calling soon won for 
him a prominent position at the bar, which 



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he has ever since retained. Since early in 
life he has affiliated with the Democratic 
party. Following the financial panic of 
1873 he was prominent among those who 
resisted strenuously the efiforts then being 
made under the stress of a money panic to 
commit the Democratic party to a policy of 
unlimited inflation of the currency. He com- 
batted vigorously the tide of financial falla- 
cies, but at the same time advocated the reve- 
nue reform principals of the Democratic 
partty. In 1874 he was nominated for Con- 
gress on a "hard money," "revenue tarifif" 
and "home rule" platform, and was elected. 
He served his constituents ably and faith- 
fully in the Forty-fourth Congress, retiring 
at the end of his term and resuming the prac- 
tice of law, to which he has since applied him- 
self with the zeal of a devotee. A popular 
orator and ready writer, he is known to the 
public as one of the most accomplished and 
scholarly members of his profession in St. 
Louis. Business address, Wainwright build- 
ing, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN BURTON KENNARD. 

John Burton Kennard. President of the 
J. Kennard & Son Carpet Company. Born 
April 5, 1868, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of 
Samuel M. and Annie Maude Kennard. 
Educated in Stoddard Private Academy, St. 
Louis, and Smith Academy. 

Mr. Kennard has had many years exper- 
ience in mercantile business in the same 
line, and since entering this company. 
He is a member of the J. Kennard & Son 
Carpet Company, who has been well and 
favorably known since the organization of 
this company. He is a member of the Noon- 



day Club. In religious matters he is a Meth- 
odist, and in politics he is independent. 

Mr. Kennard was married December 9, 
1896, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Elizabeth 
Boyd. Two children have been born to them, 
Elizabeth S. and John B. Kennard, Jr. Bus- 
iness address, Fourth and Washington ave- 
nue; residence address, 4960 Berlin avenue, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



JEAN JAMETON. 

Jean Jameton. Contractor. At thirteen 
years of age he was an apprentice ; at 
seventeen years, master stone mason ; at 
nineteen, plasterer, and at twenty, sub- 
contractor. Mr. Jameton is classed with 
that few number of men that are called 
geniuses. They develop an idea to that 
degree of perfection that when applied car- 
ries superior strength to certain principles 
that have not been evolved before. In mak- 
ing this comparison of strength, we find 
Mr. Jameton as one of the exponents in this 
art, for such it is in re-inforced concrete for 
construction of factories, warehouses, heavy 
floors, etc. We quote from the Construction 
Nczi's, which, in speaking of the remarkable 
feature of this work says : "There is now in 
the city of St. Louis under construction a 
building, at 2810 Lawton avenue, which pre- 
sents some rather interesting features. It 
is a skeleton building constructed entirely of 
re-inforced concrete, with the exception of 
the exterior fire walls, which are brick. The 
building will be used for storage purposes 
and is owned and being built by the Jean 
Jameton Construction Company." 

Mr. Jameton was born in the Department 
of La Creuse, France, January i, 1851. Son 



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of Victor Jameton and wife, Julie (Sabine) 
Jameton. He volunteered in the Franco- 
Prussian war in 1870. He worked at his 
trade in Montreal in 1873 ; also in New York 
and New Jersey, and worked as stonemason 
on the new Cincinnati Southern line in 1874, 
and from there to St. Louis on December 28, 
same year, having remained there since. Mr. 
Jameton was a resident of the state of Ten- 
nessee before he located in St. Louis. He 
organized and incorporated the Jean Jameton 
Construction Company, which has been a 
success. He is a Republican in politics, and 
a member of the A. F. & A. M. 

Mr. Jameton was married in October, 
1882, to Miss Caroline Messenger, of St. 
Louis, Mo. IV^r. and Mrs. Jameton have 
five children : Laura V., Adrian, Leon, Julius 
and Octave Jean. Business address, 406 
Benoist building; residence address, 4489 
Forest Park boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY KORTJOHN. 

Henry Kortjohn. Lawyer. Born March 
6. 1847, '" St. Louis, Mo. Son of John and 
Catherines. (Peal) Kortjohn. Educated in 
the public schools of St. Louis, Commercial 
College and St. Louis Law School, graduat- 
ing from the latter institution in June, 1880. 
He began his business career, first as a gro- 
cery clerk when he was eighteen years of age ; 
from eighteen to twenty-one, shipping clerk 
for a wholsale dry goods company; from 
twenty-one to twenty-eight, clerk in the First 
National and Empire banks of St. Louis; 
from 1875 to 1880, real estate agent, and 
cashier in the winding up of the business of 
the Empire Bank from 1877 ^ 1879. Since 
his graduation in the law school and his 



admission to the bar he has successfully prac- 
ticed his profession ever since, and is a mem- 
ber of the firm of Kortjohn & Kortjohn, com- 
posed of Henry Kortjohn and Henry Kort- 
john, Jr., estabHshed January i, igoo. In 
religious matters he is an independent Prot- 
estant, and in national politics he is a Repub- 
lican and active in the interests of his party. 
Mr. Kortjohn was married October 23, 
1869, in St. Louis, Mo. Two children have 
been born, Henry Kortjohn, Jr., and Oliver 
W. Kortjohn. Business address, rooms 175 
to 179 Laclede building; residence address, 
2037 Sidney street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE W. WEBB. 

George W. Webb. Manager of Geo. W. 
Webb & Co. Born May 30, 1867, in Veazie, 
Maine. Son of James Boardman and Han- 
nah E. (Peabody) Webb, natives of the state 
of Maine. 

George W. W^ebb acquired a meager edu- 
cation in the grammar school of his native 
state, and when only twelve years old ac- 
cepted employment in a leather belting fac- 
tory in Hartford, Conn., with N. Palmer & 
Company, and remained in their employ for 
four years ; afterwards entered the employ of 
the Nonantum Worsted Company, Newton, 
Mass., as assistant belt repairer. In 1886 
became connected with Charles A. Schieren 
& Company, leather belting manufacturers 
of New York city, and served that company 
for a period of two years ; afterwards became 
connected with the Jewell Belting Company, 
Hartford, Conn., where he remained some 
eight years, and with the Remington Arms 
Company, Illion, N. Y., as belt repair man, 
seven years. In 1903 came west to Denver, 



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Colo., and was connected with a shoe factory, 
where he remained only nine months. He 
came to Kansas City, Mo., in January, 1904, 
and engaged in the manufacture of leather 
belting. Mr. Webb is an enterprising gen- 
tleman, possessing a thorough knowledge of 
his line of business, and is building up a 
large and lucrative trade, and is the sole 
owner of the manufacturing business. Owing 
to the first-class work he manufactures his 
trade extends over a large territory, and the 
plant is kept busy in filling the many orders 
of their many customers. Mr. Webb has 
the double revolving action of a keen and 
far-sighted Yankee. He takes an interest 
in political matters, and strongly supporting 
the principles of his party. 

Mr. Webb was married October i, 1895, 
to Miss Jacobine Copman, of New York 
City. Office and salesrooms 1331 West 
Eleventh street ; residence address, 3603 St. 
John street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JACKSON JOHNSON. 

Jackson Johnson. Shoe manufacturer. 
Born in 1859 in Alabama. Son of James L. 
and Helen (Rand) Johnson. Educated in 
the public schools of his native state. Is a 
member of the Roberts, Johnson & Rand 
Shoe Company, established in 1898, of which 
he is president. He is also a director in 
the Mechanics-American National Bank, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 

Mr. Johnson came to ^Missouri in 1898 
from the state of Tennessee. He began his 
business career, first in the general merchan- 
dise business in Mississippi, and engaged in 
that line in Holly Springs, ]\Iiss., in 1881 ; 
afterwards he left the state and went to 



Memphis, Tenn., where he engaged in the 
wholesale shoe business until 1898. Since 
that time he has been associated with the 
above named company, Roberts, Johiison & 
Rand Shoe Company. He is a member of the 
St. Louis Club, Mercantile Club, Glen Echo 
Country Club, and in politics he is Demo- 
cratic. 

Mr. Johnson was married in 1881, in 
Holly Springs, Miss., to Miss Minnie A. 
Wooten. Children : Helen, Andrew Flor- 
ence, Jackson and Ada Johnson. Business 
address, corner Tenth and Washington ave- 
nues; residence address, 7000 West Delmar 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES FREDERICK JOY. 

Charles Frederick Joy. Lawyer and pub- 
licist. Born at Jacksonville, 111., December 
II, 1849. Son of Charles Frederick and 
Georgiana Eunice Ames (Batchelder) Joy, 
both natives of New Hampshire, who sought 
a home in Illinois as early as 1839. Given 
a good preliminary education in his native 
town, he was sent east to enter the academical 
department of Yale College, and four years 
later was graduated from that college with 
credit. Going directly to Shamokin, Pa., he 
entered upon the study of law, ai;d a year 
later was admitted to practice in Pennsylva- 
nia. Then he came to St. Louis, where he 
was admitted to practice in the state courts 
by Judge Hamilton, and to the United States 
courts by Hon. John W. Noble. He formed 
a partnership with Mr. Harris up to the date 
of the latter's election to the attorneyship, 
since which time Mr. Joy has never been 
associated in any other partnership. In 1890 
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in the Eighth district. In this he was de- 
feated, the Democrat party leading in the 
election, but in 1894 he was triumphantly- 
elected beyond dispute. In 1896 was again 
elected over an opponent of great popularity. 
Congressman Joy has proved a most valua- 
ble representative of the people ; is a forceful 
speaker and understands the art of adapting 
himself to place, persons and circumstances. 
Much attention has been given by him to 
corporation law and his knowledge of this 
branch is thorough. His practice is mostly 
civil, although he has frequently demon- 
strated his strength before juries in criminal 
cases. 

Mr. Joy was married to Miss Arabel 
Ordway, of Salem, Conn. Mrs. Joy died in 
December, 1880, and in 1895 ^^- Joy mar- 
ried (second) Mrs. Elizabeth Ina Ryer, nee 
Grant. Business address, 500-506 Rialto 
building ; residence address, ^733 Washing- 
ton boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



NAT. W. EWING. 



Nat. W. Ewing. Treasurer of the 
Ewing-Markle Electric Company. Born No- 
vember 30, 187 1, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of 
August B. and Mary Scott (McCausland) 
Ewing. He was educated in the public 
schools, (Stoddard) Philips Academy, Exe- 
ter, N. H., and Yale University. A paternal 
ancestor participated in the Revolutionary 
war. 

Mr. Ewing organized the Ewing-Markle 
Electric Company in 1903, and in the same 
year incorporated and was elected treasurer. 
The corporation consists of the following in- 
dividuals : Nat. W. Ewing, president ; W. S. 
]\Iarkle, vice-president and general manager ; 



Milton Mills, secretary; W. G. Brant, vice-, 
president. They are manufacturers of elec- 
trical apparatus and supplies. Previous to 
his entering this business, and at the begin- 
ning of his early career, he was a clerk for 
the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, 1892 
to 1899; Western Electrical Supply Com- 
pany, 1899 to 1902; Ewing-Markle Electric 
Company, 1903 to 1905. 

Mr. Ewing is a member of the M. A. C, 
University Club and the Illian Yacht Club. 
In religious belief he is a Catholic, and Dem- 
ocratic in politics. Business address, 1106 
Pine street; residence address, 3507 Pine 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



BRECKINRIDGE JONES. 

Breckinridge Jones. Lawyer and finan- 
cier. Born October 2, 1856, near Danville, 
Boyle county, Ky. Son of Daniel W. and 
Rebecca Robertson (Dunlap) Jones. Imme- 
diately after the Civil war he removed with 
his parents to New York, where he attended 
the school of George C. Anthon, and after 
the return of the family to Kentucky, in 1867, 
he was fitted for college in the schools of that 
state and under private tutorship. He matric- 
ulated in Kentucky University, at Lexington, 
in 187 1, but the next year, his parents having 
removed to Danville, Ky., he became a 
student of Gentry College, from which insti- 
tution he graduated in the class of 1875, and 
the year following taught a graded school 
at Lawrenceburg, Ky. In 1877 began read- 
ing law imder the preceptorship of Col. 
Thomas Peyton Hill, and in 1878 was ad- 
mitted to the bar in that state. Then he came 
to St. Louis and entered the St. Louis Law 
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became connected with the prominent law 
firm of Lee & Adams. During the summer 
of 1879 attended the Law School of the Uni- 
versity of Virginia, and then entered regu- 
larly the practice of his profession in St. 
Louis. He was engaged in general practice, 
except while serving as a member of the Mis- 
souri House of Representatives, to which 
body he was elected in 1883, ""*•! 1888, 
when he was called upon to undertake the 
reorganization of the Decatur Land, Im- 
provement & Furnace Company, of Decatur, 
Ala., which engaged his attention until 1890, 
then placing tlie affairs of that company in 
the hands of a Xew York syndicate, he re- 
turned to St. Louis and became one of the 
founders of the Mississippi Valley Trust 
Company, was made secretary of tliat corpo- 
ration and was soon thereafter elected also 
as counsel. In 1894 was made vice-president, 
which position, together with that of counsel, 
he still holds, and in which he has taken a 
prominent part and gained well merited dis- 
tinction. 

Mr. Jones married, in 1885, Miss Frances 
Miller Reid, of Lincoln county, Ky., and they 
have fi\e ciiildren. Business address. Fourth, 
northwest corner Pine, St. Louis. Missouri. 



AUGUSTUS L. ABBOTT. 

Augustus L. Abbott. Born August 6, 
1858, in Weymouth, Mass. Son of Levi 
N. and Mary (Preston) Abbott. Educated 
in the Brown University, 1880; Washington 
University Law School, 1885. He is a 
member of the legal partnership of Abbott 
& Edwards, composed of A. L. Abbott and 
John B. Edwards, established in 1898. They 
practice in the Federal and State courts and 



have built up a large and lucrative legal busi- 
ness. Mr. Abbott located in St. Louis, Mo., 
in 1S84 from the state of Illinois. He is a 
member of the Mercantile Club, Glen Echo 
Country Club; secretary of the Xew Eng- 
land Society of St. Louis, and a member of 
the Phi Beta Kappa. In religious belief he 
is a Baptist, and independent in politics. 

Mr. Abbott was married April 20, 1887, 
in Alton, 111., to Miss Annette Blair. Chil- 
dren : John Blair, Marjory and Preston 
Ober. Business address, 412 Security build- 
ing; residence address, 5449 ]\Iaple avenue, 
St. Louis, Alissouri. 



JOHN ALFRED LAIRD. 

John Alfred Laird. Mechanical engi- 
neer. Born July 13, 1861, in Henry county, 
111. Son of John and Mary (Ragan) Laird. 
Graduated from the High School at Gales- 
burg, 111., in 1879, and the Washington Uni- 
versity, with the degree of Bachelor of Engi- 
neering, in the class of 1887. His maternal 
grandfather served in the war of 1812. At 
the age of twenty-two he made Missouri his 
permanent residence. After graduation in 
the engineering department of the Washing- 
ton University he began his profession as a 
mechanical engineer, first in the St. Louis 
water department, and afterwards took up 
the work as a consulting engineer. Member 
of tlie co-partnership of Holman & Laird, 
established in 1904. President of the Gillet 
Brick & Tile Company, and the Asphalt. Oil, 
Mining & Manufacturing Company, of Ok- 
lahoma. Director of the Grand Avenue 
Masonic Temple and Odeon building com- 
pany. He is a member of the St. Louis 
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Mechanical Engineers ; Military Order of 
Foreign Wars; Masonic Orders; Knight 
Templars; past commander of St. Louis 
Commandery No. i, K. T. ; Missouri Con- 
sistory, A. & A. S. R., Hon. thirty-third 
degree; Missouri Athletic Club. In relig- 
ious belief he is a Presbyterian, in politics a 
Republican. He was captain of the First 
Regiment, National Guard of Missouri, two 
and one-half years ; captain Third United 
States Volunteer Engineers in the war with 
Spain in 1898. 

Mr. Laird was married December 27, 
1887, in Woodhull, III, to Miss Margaret 
Isabel Woods. Business address, Chemical 
building ; residence address, 4476A McPher- 
son avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILEY C. COX. 



Wiley C. Cox. Banker. Born in the 
state of Mississippi, April 30, 1848. Son of 
John B. and Amanda M. (Reynolds) Cox. 
Education limited to common schools of 
native state. In Springfield, Mo., in his 
early life he followed merchandising and 
banking. Came to Kansas City in 1882 and 
engaged in the real estate business. Organ- 
ized the Kansas City State Bank in 1888. 
Became proprietor and editor of the Kansas 
City Times, which paper he conducted four 
or five years. Served in the upper house of 
the city council. Served as police commis- 
sioner. Business connection is with the Kan- 
sas City State Bank, of which he is president. 
A member of the Commercial Club, of Kan- 
sas City. In politics a Democrat; religion 
Baptist. 

Mr. Cox was married to Miss Emma C. 
Boxley in 1871, in Springfield, Mo. Of this 



marriage six children were born — two dead, 
four living. The living are : Wiley C, Jr., 
Percy, Emma B. and Mary D. Business ad- 
dress, 812 Delaware street; residence ad- 
dress, 601 East Ninth street, Kansas City, 

Missouri. 

♦-•-♦ 

FRANK M. ESTES. 

Frank M. Estes, lawyer, was born in 
Haywood county, Tenn., August 26, 1854. 
and came to St. Louis in 1875, having at that 
time just reached his majority. He was a 
son of Moreau P. and Mary (Noel) Estes. 
He remained in Tennessee during his youth, 
then left home to go to Montreal, Canada, 
where he entered the celebrated McGill Uni- 
versity. Completing the course at that insti- 
tution he returned to the United States, 
matriculated in the University of Virginia, at 
Charlottesville, where he qualified in the law. 
Soon came to St. Louis where he took the 
post-graduate course at the St. Louis Law 
School, received his degree, and was ad- 
mitted to the bar. He has given his time and 
talent freely in his party's behalf, as delegate 
and as a committeeman, serving for a time 
as chairman of the Democratic City Central 
Committee. In 1894 and 1896 he was made 
a candidate by the Democratic party for 
judge of the Circuit Court of the Eighth 
Judicial district. He was temporarily ap- 
pointed to the bench in 1897. 

Mr. Estes has social qualities which 
have won him a legion of friends. He is 
popular in every circle. Has done much to 
maintain the esprit dc corps in his profes- 
sion. In the Missouri Bar Association he is 
one of the most active members, and for 
some time acted as secretary of that body. 
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which he has been supreme chancellor, and 
is president of the St. Louis Lodge of Elks. 
Mr. Estes has two children by a former 
marriage, and in August, 1896, he was mar- 
ried to Miss Nellie Stockton, of St. Louis. 
Business address, 907 Carlton building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



THEODORE C. LINK. 

Theodore C. Link. Architect. Born 
March 17, 1850, near Heidelberg, Germany. 
Son of Karl and Louise (Schneider) Link. 
His scholastic education was obtained in 
part at Heidelberg, in part at London, Eng- 
land, and he studied architecture and engi- 
neering at the Ecole Centrale, of Paris, 
France. Came to this country when he was 
twenty years of age; for three years there- 
after practiced his profession in New York 
and Philadelphia, except one year was ein- 
ployed by the Texas Pacific Railroad Com- 
pany at Sherman, Houston and Jefferson, 
Texas. Came to St. Louis in 1873 ^^ ^^^ 
attache of the Atlantic & Pacific Railroad 
Company. So'on after coming to St. Louis 
he quit his position and became assistant 
chief engineer at Forest Park ; later ap- 
pointed superintendent of the public parks of 
the city, holding this position until in 1876. 
After that he practiced his profession in 
Pittsburg. Philadelphia and New York until 
1883, when he returned to St. Louis and 
opened an architect's office of his own. He 
has designed and superintended the con- 
struction of many handsome buildings in St. 
Louis and neighboring cities. Among them 
we may mention that he was one of the 
architects who submitted designs for the 
union station in St. Louis, and the plan 



submitted to the board by Mr. Link was 
approved of and the construction of the 
building in accordance with his designs was 
committed to his charge. He is a member 
of the American Institute of Architects, and 
a member of the Architectural League of 
New York, and has served two terms as 
president of the Missouri State Association 
of Architects. Is a member of the St. Louis 
Club. 

September 22, 1875, ^Ir. Link married 
Miss Annie Fuller, of Detroit. Mich. Their 
children are Carl Eugene, Edwin Carey and 
Clarence Vincesit. Business address. 308 
North Sixth street. St. Louis, Missouri. 



NELSON GREEN EDWARDS. 

Nelson Green Edwards. Secretary of 
the J. Kenr^ard & Sons Carpet Company. 
Born May 17, 1850. in Alton. III. Son of 
Nelson Green and Harriet (Cooper) Ed- 
wards. Great-grandfather (maternal) filled 
every office, from ensign to colonel, in Mary- 
land state troops ; was captain of a company 
at Fort McHenry. 

The ediyration of Nelson Green was ac- 
quired in the public school and Shurtleff Col- 
lege. Alton, 111., military academy. Lake 
Forest. III. Washington University. St. 
Louis. He began his career as clerk in the 
postoffice and a jewelry store in Alton, 111. 
Practiced law in St. Louis six years ; ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1872: discontinued prac- 
tice in 1878; clerk and pilot on Missouri 
river to 1880, when he entered the house of 
the J. Kennard & Sons Carpet Company, 
composed of the following members : Sam- 
uel M. Kennard. president ; John B. Ken- 
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secretary. He was bill clerk, then elected 
secretary of this company in 1896, and then 
became interested as a member of the corpo- 
ration. In 1890 was captain of Company C, 
First Regiment, National Guards of Mis- 
souri; in 1896 major of the First Regiment, 
National Guards of Missouri ; resigned in 
1897; re-elected major of the First Regiment 
in 1904, and elected lieutenant-colonel in 
September, 1904. 

Mr. Edwards is a member of the Episco- 
pal Church ; vestryman of Grace Church, 
Kirkwood, Mo. In politics he is independ- 
ent. Was married October 18, 1884, at St. 
Louis, Mo., to Miss Emma Nelson Carter. 
Children : Murray French, Constance Car- 
ter, Rebecca Carter, Harriet and Josephine. 
Business address. Fourth and Washington 
avenue; residence, Kirkwood, Missouri. 



LUDWIG FREDERICK HAMMER. 

Ludwig Frederick Hammer. Manufact- 
urer. Born at Wurtemberg, Germany, 
February 24, 1834. Son of Ludwig F. and 
Frederica (Bichert) Hammer, who emi- 
grated from Germany to the United States 
in 1854. After obtaining a limited educa- 
tion he was apprenticed to the organ- 
builder's trade. He mastered the trade just 
before emigrating to the United States. 
Landing in New York Cityhe sought employ- 
ment at once, and first worked as a laborer 
on the Pennsylvania railroad, later in a coal 
mine at Lucerne, Pa., and still later he was 
employed at Buffalo, N. Y., and Beachville, 
Canada. After he learned the tanner's trade 
came to St. Louis, in 1856, and was em- 
ployed by John Haws, who operated a tan- 
nery on Barton street. In 1862 began busi- 



ness for himself as lessee of what was known 
as the "New Bremen tannery." After- 
ward he engaged in the art of making 
daguerreotypes and photographs, then in 
the infancy of its existence. After a time 
he became general manager of the establish- 
ment with which he had become connected, 
and retained that position until 1869, when 
he established a photograph gallery at the 
corner of Rutger street and Broadway. He 
began this business with a capital of $300, 
but his success enable him, in 1871, to 
open a handsome and well-equipped gallery 
at the corner of Carroll street and Broadway, 
which he conducted for eighteen years, and 
a comfortable fortune was the result of his 
labor and enterprise. In 1889 he leased a 
block of ground at the corner of Marine 
avenue and Broadway, and erected a build- 
ing which was devoted exclusively to his 
photographic business until 1891. In that 
year, in company with William J. Althans, 
he organized the Hammer-Althans Manu- 
facturing Company for the manufacture of 
photographic dry plates, of which he became 
president and treasurer. Mr. Althans with- 
drew from the company a year later, and 
other changes have since taken place in the 
personnel of stockholders and minor officials, 
but Mr. Hammer continued under the head 
of the business thus founded, which is now 
conducted under the name of the Hammer 
Dry Plate Company. The enterprise has 
proved an exceedingly profitable one, and 
the products of the Hammer Dry Plate 
Works now find a market in almost every 
city and town in the country. 

During the Civil war Mr. Hammer had 
military experience as a member of the Tan- 
ners' Company of Home Guards. In politics 
he is a Republican, and he is a Presbyterian 
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ganizations as a member of the Masonic 
Order, and has been treasurer of Meridian 
Lodge, of St. Louis, for ten years. He mar- 
ried, in 1862. Miss JuHa M. Path, of St. 
Louis. Their living children are: Henry 
William, Julia M., Ludwig F., Jr., Emma 
M., Ida, Annie D., Oscar and Otto W. 
Business address, Ohio avenue and Miami 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



PEMBROOK REEVES FLITCRAFT. 

Pembrook Reeves Flitcraft. Lawyer. 
Born at Woodstown, Salem county, N. J., 
January 7, 1847. When he was quite young 
his parents, Dr. Isaiah Reeves and Mary Ann 
(Atkinson) Flitcraft, moved to Ohio, thence 
to Indiana, and his early education was ac- 
quired in the country district schools until 
1864, when he entered Raisin Valley Semi- 
nary, a Quaker boarding school in Lenawee 
county, Mich., where he prepared for admis- 
sion in the classical course of the L^niversity 
of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, which he entered 
in the year of 1867, and from which he grad- 
uated with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 
1871, and from which he also received a 
degree of Master of Arts in 1874. In 1866, 
before entering college, he taught school, and 
during the summer vacations he worked on 
a farm and earned money to defray his ex- 
penses. When he reached the junior year he 
had to withdraw from college until he could 
earn money enough to finish, and although 
absent from college during his junior year, 
he re-entered and graduated in the class of 
187 1, with which he had originally entered 
the university, thus accomplishing in three 
years that which others did only in four 
years. Was appointed deputy United States 



marshal to assist in taking the census of 

1870. Immediately after graduating, in 

1 87 1, he was elected superintendent of 
schools in Charlotte, Mich., but a year later 
he resigned this position and became asso- 
ciated with the publishing house of A. S. 
Barnes & Co., with which company he re- 
mained for one year, when he then volunta- 
rily severed his connection with it, accepting 
a position with the publishing house of Wil- 
so, Hinkle & Company, afterwards Van Ant- 
werp, Bragg & &Co., of Cincinnati, Ohio. 
In 1875 he came to Missouri, first to St. 
Louis, and then to Kansas City, where he 
was admitted to the bar in the same year. 
For about three years thereafter he practiced 
law in partnership with John T. Voss, a 
lawyer in Girard, Kans., under the firm name 
of Voss & Flitcraft. but in 1878 he returned 
to St. Louis, where he resumed the practice 
of the law, and where he has resided ever 
since. In 1880 he formed a law partnership 
with Henry E. Mills, Esq., which partnership 
continued until he was called to the bench 
of the Circuit Court in January, 1895, by 
the vote of the people of St. Louis. He re- 
mained on the bench for a term of six years, 
at the end of which he resumed the practice 
of the law, and is now so engaged in the city 
of St. Louis, in the Laclede building, Forty- 
seventh and Olive streets, and resides at 4356 
West Belle Place. In politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He is an active and prominent Mason, 
a member of George Washington Lodge No. 
9. A. F. & A. M.., and was worshipful master 
of that lodge in 1890. He is a member of 
St. Louis Chapter, No. 8, Royal Arch Ma- 
sons, and was high priest of that chapter in 
1885. Is a member of Hiram Council, No. 
I. Royal and Select Masters, and was thrice 
illustrious master of that council in 1882. 
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I, Knights Templar^ and was eminent com- 
mander of the commandery in 1885. Was 
also most ilKistrious grand master of the 
Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters 
of the State of Missouri in 1885. Is a thirty- 
third degree Mason of the Ancient and 
Accepted Scottish Rite, being a member of 
Missouri Consistory, No. i, of that rite, of 
St. Louis. He is a member of the Royal 
Arcanum and Legion of Honor. In the 
Royal Arcanum he is a member of Valley 
Council, No. 437, and in 1894 was grand 
regent of Missouri. In the Legion of Honor, 
a member of Alpha Council, No. i, of St. 
Louis, Mo. 

In September, 1883, Judge Flitcraft mar- 
ried Miss Emma Belle Brenneman, of Pitts- 
burg, Pa. Two children are( now living, 
Ada Virginia and Edna Belle Flitcraft. Bus- 
iness address 92, 94 and 96 Laclede building, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



ARTHUR E. SPENCER. 

Arthur E. Spencer. Lawyer. Born Oc- 
tober 3, 1868, in Newburgh, Ind. Son of 
Galen and Mary M. (Bates) Spencer. Edu- 
cated in the public schools of Joplin, Mo., 
and St. Louis Law School, 1888. He located 
in Missouri in 1873, and after acquiring his 
legal education began the practice of law in 
Joplin, Mo., and has successfully practiced 
his profession ever since. He was elected 
president of the Joplin National Bank on 
January i, 1905, composed of the following 
officials : Arthur E. Spencer, president ; W. 
A. Campbell, vice-president; A. H. Waite, 
cashier. The bank was incorporated in 1890. 
Established in 1890. Mr. Spencer is a mem- 
ber, of the Elks and K. of P. In politics he 



is a Republican, and in religious belief he is 
a Congregationalist. 

Mr. Spencer was married November 13, 
1898, to Miss Lulu A. Howard at Webb City, 
Mo. Children: Norton H. and Arthur E. 
Spencer, Jr. Business address, 419 Main 
street; residence address, 217 North Pearl 
street, Joplin, Missouri. 



DAVID EISMAN. 



David Eisman. Wholesale dry goods 
merchant. Born April 10, 1845, i" Germany. 
Son of J. W. and Fanny (Kaufman) Eis. 
man. He began business at the age of four- 
teen in the fatherland, in a retail dry goods 
store. He came to America in 1865 and 
entered the firm of Rice, Stix & Co., Mem- 
phis, as salesman ; then he was admitted to 
the co-fflartnership, and with the firm re- 
moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1879, 'i"*^ estab- 
lished his permanent residence in this city. 
In 1898 the firm of Rice-Stix Dry Goods 
Company was incorporated, composed of the 
following individuals: Henry Rice, presi- 
dent, residence New York City; David Eis- 
man, vice-president ; E. Michal, second vice- 
president ; William Stix, third vice-president ; 
B. Eisman, treasurer; C. A. Stacy, secretary. 
The firm does an extensive dry goods jobbing 
business over a large area of territory in the 
west and southwest. 

Mr. Eisman was educated in the public 
high schools in Germany. He is a member 
of the Mercantile, Columbian, and various 
other clubs in St. Louis, Mo. In religious 
belief he is an Israelite, and in politics inde- 
pendent. He was married November 7, 
1883, in Cincinnati. Ohio, to Miss Aurelia 
S. Stix. Children born to this union : Flor- 



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ence, Etta, Helen, David, Richard and Alice 
Eisman. Business address. Tenth and Wash- 
ington avenue. Residence, 4387 Westmin- 
ster Place, St. Louis. IMissouri. 



ALBERT J. AIPLE. 

Albert J. Aiple. Real estate dealer. Born 
October 25, 1866, in St. Louis, Mo. He 
was educated in the public and parochial 
schools of St. Louis, and is a member of the 
Aiple & Hemmelman Real Estate Company, 
composed of Albert J. Aiple and Theo. Hem- 
melman, Jr., and is president of that corpo- 
ration. The company was incorporated in 
1896. The firm of Aiple & Hemmelman 
Real Estate Company do an extensive real 
estate business in St. Louis, jMissouri. 

Mr. Aiple, in religious belief, is a Cath- 
olic, and was married April 25, 1900, in New 
Orleans, to Miss Emelia Wenck. Business 
address, 622 Chestnut street ; residence, 2225 
Park avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JEREML\H FRUIN. 

Jeremiah Fruin, contractor, is a man of 
ceaseless energy and great personal mag- 
netism. He has risen to his present promi- 
inent position in the city by dint of hard work 
and by introducing into his business the best 
methods and the most concise system. He 
was vice-president of thci Fruin-Bambrich 
Construction Company. 

Mr. Fruin is a member of a large class 
of self-made men which has had and still 
exerts such a conspicuous influence in the 
west and southwest. He is not by any means 



a conspicuous politician, although he has 
given to practical legislation a great deal 
of study and attention. He was appointed as 
police commissioner of St. Louis, Mo., by 
Governor Stone. When the appointment 
was first announced there was some doubt 
as to whether ]\Ir. Fruin would accept it. The 
salary attached to the office is purely nominal 
and to a man of ]\Ir. Fruin's wealth, was a 
matter of no importance. A sense of public 
duty, however, constrained him to accept the 
appointment, and he has proven himself to 
be admirably adapted for the position. To- 
day Mr. Fruin stands in the foremost rank 
of reliable, progressive St. Louis business 
men. He was born in Ireland on July 6, 
183 1, but he carries well the years. When he 
was a mere child his parents, John and Cath- 
erine Fruin, decided to emigrate to America. 
They landed in New York in 1834. His 
father obtained several contracts from the 
New York and Brooklyn municipalities and 
young Fruin, as soon as he was old enough, 
commenced to assist in the work. Hence his 
education was somewhat interfered with. He 
obtained at the common school a fair educa- 
tion, and being a reader and student soon 
equipped himself for a business career. When 
the war broke out, Mr. Fruin came to St. 
Louis, early in 1861, to accept a posi- 
tion in the quartermaster's department of the 
Army of the West, under General Fremont. 
He went through the entire campaign and 
was present at such engagements as Fort 
Donaldson, Shiloh, Fort Henry and others. 
After doing his duty to his country he de- 
cided to locate in St. Louis, and he at once 
opened up in a small way in the contracting 
business. He soon obtained a number of 
contracts for street excavations and water 
works construction. He also obtained a 
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kinds, and from the earliest date of his work 
earned a reputation for thoroughness and 
rehabihty. Uniting with W. H. Swift, he 
and his partner increased their business, and 
in January, 1885, the Fruin-Bambrick Con- 
struction Company was incorporated, with 
Mr. Fruin as vice-president. Some of the 
rapid work of this firm, in connection with 
street railroad building during the transit 
boom in St. Louis, has been phenominal in 
character. 

Mr. Fruin was married in 1854, in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., to Miss Catherine Carroll. 
Children : John J. and Catherine Fruin. Bus- 
iness address, 127 Laclede building; resi- 
dence address, 6300 Columbia avenue, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



AARON FULLER. 



Aaron Fuller. Vice-president of the 
Stix, Baer & Fuller Dry Goods Company. 
Born March 22, 1858, in Grombach, Ger- 
many. Son of Leopold and Caroline (Baer) 
Fuller. Educated in the public schools of 
Germany. Mr. Fuller is a member of the 
Stix, Baer & Fuller Dry Goods Company 
(incorporated) in St. Louis, and the Boston 
Store, Fort Smith, Ark. ; of the former com- 
pany he is vice-president, and the latter presi- 
dent. He commenced his business career in a 
humble way in a small store in Witcherville, 
Ark., in 1880, and has steadily worked his 
way up to an interest in one of the largest 
incorporated department stores west of New 
York City, and his business experience and 
training in the mercantile line having made 
him familiar with all of the details of the 
business, he has contributed largely to the 
success of this business enterprise. He also 



has a controlling interest in a large depart- 
ment store in Fort Smith, Ark., which also 
occupies some of his time and attention. 

Mr. Fuller in religious belief is a Hebrew. 
Li politics he is a Republican. Married Sep- 
tember 6, 1885, i" Chicago, 111., to Miss 
Frieda Baer. Children : Leo and Corinne 
Fuller. Business address, the Leader build- 
ing; residence address, 4062 Lindell boule- 
vard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK FEINER. 



Frank Feiner. Manufacturer. Born in 
Baden, Germany, February 28, 1832. Son 
of Michael and Annie Feiner. He was 
reared and received a common school educa- 
tion in his native home, and later learned the 
tailors' trade. September 15, 185 1, he came 
to New York, later to Philadelphia, where he 
worked as a journeyman tailor, then still 
later came to St. Louis, where he worked at 
his trade, first for John Schiffman, but in 
December, 1853, he went to San Francisco 
and worked at his trade three months there. 
He then engaged in placer mining at George- 
town, in Eldorado county, for two years. 
Li 1855 went to the Yuba River gold fields 
and remained five years, his mining ventures 
yielding good returns, and he returned to 
St. Louis in 1861. In 1862 purchased the 
interest of Frank Deister in the Southern 
mills, located at 808 South Broadway, and 
became junior member of the milling firm of 
Engelke & Feiner. In 1882, after successful 
operation of these mills, they rebuilt the 
plant, greatly enlarging it and equipping it 
with "roller process" machinery. The name 
was then changed to the Southern Roller 
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Feiner then purchased the interest of his 
estate, and in 1895 ^^^ business was incor- 
porated as the Engelke & Feiner MilHng 
Company, of which corporation Mr. Feiner 
is president and treasurer. Mr. Feiner is 
esteemed for his public spirit and Hberahty. 
He is a Repubhcan in pohtics; a CathoHc in 
rehgion ; a director of the International Bank 
of St. Louis; a member of the Merchants' 
Exchange, of the South St. Louis Turners' 
Society and of the Union Club. 

Mr. Feiner was married in 1866 to Miss 
Helena Klinger, of St. Charles, Mo. Their 
children are George W., Eugene J., Adele 
and Lily Fiener. Business address, 816 
South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MRS. THOMAS B. TOMB. 

Mrs. Thomas B. Tomb. Among the 
noted ladies of Missouri, prominently iden- 
tified in social, church and educational circles, 
and the high honors conferred upon her in 
being a descendant of a long line of honor- 
able ancestry, which we will attempt briefly 
to note in the sketch of Mrs. Maria ( Harbe- 
son) Tomb. Captain Copeland, one of her 
paternal ancestors, was a member of the 
Colonial Congress. Captain Davis Bevin, 
her great-great-grandfather, commanded the 
armored battleship "Holker," and served 
under Washington at the battle of Brandy- 
wine in 1777, and in recognition of his dis- 
tinguished courage, and other valuable serv- 
ice to the Continental army, he was presented 
with a sword, which is now in possession of 
the family, and the deeds of the illustrious 
services are recorded fully in the authentic 
histories of the American Revolution. Mrs. 
Tomb was a dauehter of Charles E. and .\nn 



Elizabeth Harbeson. Her father was a 
native of Philadelphia, Pa., who afterwards 
became a resident of the state of Ohio, where 
he acquired large and ample means and oper- 
ated various enterprises in mining, success- 
fully, and was connected with a large com- 
mercial house in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he 
was favorably known as one of the great 
financiers in that day. His death occurred 
in 1866. His widow survived until Novem- 
ber 3, 1893. On the maternal line I\Irs. 
Tomb is descended from Capt. James Kear- 
ney, of Virginia, and Capt. Jacob Von Dorn, 
of New Jersey, both of whom rendered con- 
spicuous military service during the Revolu- 
tionary war. The remote ancestry of the 
Van Dorn family is closely related to the 
house of Orange of Holland. Richard and 
Maria (Van Dorn) Gartrell, parents of Mrs. 
Tomb's mother, removed, about 1830, from 
Virginia to Palmyra, Mo. Their daughter, 
the mother of Mrs. Tomb, was educated at 
St. Charles Female Seminary, at St. Charles, 
Mo. Maria (Harbeson) Tomb received a 
liberal education at Miss Eastman's Select 
School in Philadelphia, was prominent in her 
class, and a room-mate was Miss Ida Sax- 
ton, wife of the late President McKinley, 
and a warm friendship has existed between 
them ever since. Mrs. Tomb possesses many 
traits of character that proves her efficiency 
in all of her endeavors in business, as well 
as social matters. She has been connected 
with so many various social, educational, 
church and business organizations among 
her own se.x that she is considered an excel- 
lent parliamentarian and most capable to 
preside on any public or private occasions. 
Through her distinguished ancestry she 
holds membership in the Society of the Colo- 
nial Dames, also Society Colonial Daugh- 
ters of the Seventeenth Century, and 






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Elizabeth Benton Chapter, Daughters of 
the American Revohition, in which she 
has been elected for the second term 
regent, and six times was elected a dele- 
gate to the national assemblage of the 
latter society at Washington, D. C. In the 
recent state conference of the D. A. R., in 
Kansas City, Mo., she was elected vice-state 
regent. Mrs. Tomb is also a director in the 
board of managers of the Kansas City Athe- 
neum, and chairman of the home department 
and a director in the Woman's Auxiliary of 
the Manufacturers' Association of Kansas 
City, Mo., the largest and most important 
woman's club in the Missouri Valley. Resi- 
dence address, 6ig East Ninth street, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



BERTRAND FREDERICK FENN. 

Bertrand Frederick Fenn. Lawyer. Born 
May 18, 1869, in Massachusetts. Son of 
James W. and Margaret (Coleman) Fenn. 
Education acquired in the public schools of 
Boston, Mass., and at the law school of St. 
Louis, Mo. He located in Missouri in 1892, 
and began in early life to make preparation 
for his chosen profession, that of the law, 
and to accomplish this had to work at vari- 
ous callings, as a clerk in a wholesale iron 
house, and afterwards becoming chief clerk, 
salesman and manager, and his efforts in this 
line secured him a competency that enabled 
him to pursue his favorite calling since his 
admission to the bar. He has been success- 
ful in the line of his profession and has built 
up a large and lucrative practice. Mr. Fenn 
is a member of the Knights of Columbus and 
Legion of Honor. Although devoted to his 
profession, he takes great delight in musical 
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matters and is an accomplished piano player, 
also executing selections on some twenty dif- 
ferent musical instruments. He belongs to 
the Catholic Church, and is the secretary and 
treasurer of the Ruppert-Fenn Coal & Ice 
Company. In politics he is independent. 

Mr. Fenn was married June 23, 1897, 
to Miss Margaret Farrell. To Mr. and Mrs. 
Farrell one son has been born, Bertrand. 
Business address 421 Olive street; residence 
address, 2623 Adams street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM SCOTT FLEMING. 

William Scott Fleming. Born August 
16, 1854, in Greencastle, Pa. Son of Wil- 
liam W. and Elizabeth (Rankin) Fleming. 
Mr. Fleming's early life was passed on his 
father's farm in Pennsylvania, and he was 
educated in the Greencastle public schools, 
and at Chambersburg Academy, in that state. 
In 1870 he went to Philadelphia where he 
was apprenticed to John Wyeth & Brother, 
one of the largest drug firms in the United 
States. He graduated in pharmacy from the 
Philadelphia College in 1878. In 1879 he 
came to St. Louis and embarked in a drug 
business there at 1700 Lucus avenue. He is 
a resident of Webster Groves, and it was 
largely through his efforts that this village 
was incorporated in 1894, and he was elected 
its first mayor. He was re-e,lected twice 
afterwards, and has also served as a member 
of the board of education of Webster, and its 
treasurer since 1894. Webster Groves is 
much indebted to Mr. Fleming for its good 
name and fame as a place of residence. He 
is a member of the board of trustees of the 
First Presbyterian Church of Webster, and 
an influential churchman. He is a large prop- 



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erty holder and a director and member of the 
building committee of the National Invest- 
ment Company. He formed a partnership in 
the drug business with Henry H. Hoch, and 
in the year of 1898, at the corner of Seven- 
teenth street and Washington avenue, fitted 
up one of the largest and handsomest drug 
stores in St. Louis. A month later, with 
his partner, he opened another store at 1900 
O'Fallon street. Is a member of the jNIercan- 
tile Clul), and of the Merchants' Exchange. 
IMr. Fleming was married in 1894 to Miss 
May Briant, who died in 1900. He has three 
children : Business address, 1 5 1 5 North 
Twenty-fifth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



SETH FRINK. 



Seth Frink, chairman of the Southern 
Freight Association, was born December 22, 
1 83 1, and reared on a New England farm at 
Windsor, Berkshire county, Mass. His 
father's name was Lyman Frink, and his 
mother was Laura Dickson. He was edu- 
cated in the Berkshire county public schools 
and at Hinsdale Academy, attending this lat- 
ter four winter terms. He entered the rail- 
way service on the Western Railroad of Mas- 
sachusetts, now the Boston & Albany line, 
working faithfully in whatever capacity his 
employers selected for him, familiarizing 
himself with all the thousand and one details 
of railroad building and. service. No position 
was unwelcome to him, no work too hard for 
him in those important years of his life. He 
remained in and about Pittsfield until the 
autumn of 1863. when he decided to strike 
out for the great and rapidly developing west. 
He first went to Cincinnati, Ohio, and took a 
position in the general freight office of the 



Ohio & Mississippi Railroad. His remark- 
able industry and aptitude for the business 
soon secured for him the important position 
of chief clerk in the freight department. The 
following year, 1864, he was made agent 
of the Eaton & Hamilton railroad, at Rich- 
Mond, Ind., and in 1865 he took a like posi- 
tion at Dayton, Ohio, for the Cincinnati, 
Hamilton & Dayton road, which latter place 
he filled for a period of five years. Not quite 
satisfied with the progress he was making, 
he left Ohio January i, 1870, and came to 
St. Louis to accept the position of local agent 
of the St. Louis & Iron IMountain railroad. 
In the following March he was promoted to 
the general freight agency of the road, and 
continued to fill that position until its sale to 
Jay Gould, when he was made general freight 
agent of the Gould system of roads, which 
important place he filled most acceptably till 
October, 1882. 

In all this continuous and faithful career, 
IMr. Frink was favored with the chance 
which had become the desire of his life. His 
promotions were gained by hard and perse- 
vering work, and it was his great pleasure 
and triumph to realize the perfect confidence 
of his associates, and a just appreciation of 
his talents in the special branch of railroad- 
ing that in early life he had chosen. He 
stood so well in his particular line that in 
1882 he was chosen commissioner of the St. 
Louis Freight Bureau, and served in that 
capacity for two years. In 1884 his love 
for the western life, and his ambition to be 
at the very front of all gr^at developing 
movements, determined him to risk a portion 
of his means in the mining business of Colo- 
rado. He was placed in charge of some im- 
portant mining enterprises, but though de- 
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cess that he had anticipated. He returned 
to St. Louis, March i, 1893, and upon the 
very day of his arrival was tendered the posi- 
tion he now occupies, chairman of the South- 
ern Freight Committee, at room 715, Wain- 
wright building. In this important place he 
represents the interests of the Iron Mountain, 
the Louisville & Nashville, the Mobile & 
Ohio, the Cairo Short Line, the Ohio & Mis- 
sissippi, the L. E. & St. Louis, the C, C, C. 
& St. Louis, the Vandalia, and the Jackson- 
ville & Southeast railroads, in connection 
with freight business to and from territory 
east of the Mississippi and south of the Ohio 
rivers. Mr. Frink's wife was Miss Caroline 
G. Guilds, of Pittsfield, Mass. He has both 
children and grandchildren in Colorado, to 
whom he is devotedly attached. Business 
address, 816 Olive street; residence ad- 
dress, 3522 Washington terrace, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



Moynihan started on his own account at his 
present quarters. Business address, 19 18 
Olive street; residence address, Evans ave- 
nue. St. Louis, Missouri. 



PATRICK J. MOYNIHAN. 

Patrick J. Moynihan, contractor, was 
born in Ireland in 1858, where he learned 
his trade, and came to this country when only 
eighteen years of age. He first settled in 
New York, and was apprenticed to learn the 
trade of carpenter. Coming to St. Louis 
after serving his apprenticeship and learning 
his trade thoroughly, Mr. Moynihan filled 
engagements for four years as journevman 
with several of the most prominent and suc- 
cessful contracting carpenters and builders 
of the city, thereby acquiring a complete and 
masterful acquaintance with the general con- 
tracting business. He then, with a partner, 
opened a shop on the corner of Tenth street 
and Washington avenue. This partnership 
continued for about four years, when Mr, 



JOSEPH T. DONOVAN. 

Joseph T. Donovan, president of J. T. 
Donovan & Co. (incorporated), and its 
active head almost from its inception, was 
born in St. Louis, December 29, 1841. His 
father, the late D. H. Donovan, was a 
builder, and came here from Philadelphia, 
in 1832. He became prominent in city poli- 
tics, and held many important positions of 
trust and responsibility, all of which he dis- 
charged faithfully and conscientiously. He 
was elected to the city council and was 
superintendent of the city water works for 
many years. Joseph, his son, was educated 
in the St. Louis University, and while pur- 
suing his studies there the war broke out. 
He was only nineteen years old, but fired with 
martial ardor he abandoned his books and 
enlisted as a private in the First Missouri 
Regiment. He served throughout the war, 
and at its conclusion returned to St. Louis 
and joined his father in the real estate busi- 
ness, under the firm style of D. H. Donovan 
& Son. The office of the firm was then at 
the old Oak Hall, Washington avenue, be- 
tween Third and Fourth streets. Here they 
remained until 1871, when the office was re- 
moved to Sixth street and Washington ave- 
nue. Meanwhile the firm style had become 
J. T. Donovan & Co. The business was con- 
tinued at the Sixth street location until May 
of the current year, when it was removed 
to the corner of Seventh and Chestnut 
streets. The firm had also been incorporated. 



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]\Ir. Donovan's two sons, J. M. and D. H., 
respectively tilling the otifices of secretary and 
treasurer. Business address, 1 22 North Sev- 
enth street; residence address, 3037 Pine 
boulevard. St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN A. FISHER. 

John A. Fisher. Secretary of the West- 
ern Leather Company. Born September 26, 
1868, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of John H. 
and Fannie (Nicolet) Fisher. Educated in 
the public schools of St. Louis, and is a mem- 
ber of the incorporated company, the West- 
ern Leather Company, composed of Charles 
F. Kuhn, president ; Gus Schlecht, vice-presi- 
dent. Established March, 1892. Previous 
to entering the above firm he had been con- 
nected with various other business enter- 
prises. In religious belief he is a Protestant, 
Independent in politics. 

Mr. Fisher was married April 29, 1891, 
in St. Louis, Mo., to Huldah McKuhn. Busi- 
ness address, 520 North Third street ; resi- 
dence address, 3507 Magnolia avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



HUGH MURRAY FRENCH. 

Hugh Murray French. Wholesale paper 
dealer. Born in August, 1854, in San Jose, 
Cal. Educated in the public schools of his 
native state, and came to St. Louis in 1865, 
from the state of Kentucky. For many years 
previous to his entering the Graham Paper 
Company he followed mercantile pursuits, 
and when the company was incorporated in 
1880 he became the president, which position 



he now occupies, in 1905. The incorporated 
company is composed of the following indi- 
viduals : Hugh M. French, president ; J. P. 
Farrell, vice-president ; H. B. Graham, secre- 
tary ; E. F. Williams, treasurer. The former 
company, which this incorporated company 
succeeded, was established in 1855. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. Residence address, 
4327 Washington toulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



THOMAS J. PROSSER. 

Thomas J. Prosser, president of the 
Pennsylvania Construction Company, was 
born in Pittsburg, Pa., February 8, 185 1. 
When twelve years of age he ran away from 
home, went to Alexandria, Va., and enlisted 
as a drummer-boy in the Sixty-second Penn- 
sylvania Volunteer Infantry. He partici- 
pated in the battles of the Wilderness, Spott- 
sylvania, Bethesda Church, Cold Harbor and 
Petersburg. After the war he returned to 
Pittsburg and received a common school edu- 
cation, after which he became a carpenter, 
and at twenty determined to secure a colle- 
giate education. After a year at Adrian Col- 
lege, he returned home, married, and contin- 
ued his trade until 1874, when, dissatisfied 
with his education, he returned to Adrian, 
Mich., and graduated there. He spent the 
year 1878 in the oil fields of Pennsylvania, 
where he engaged in building tanks, and this 
vocation proved to be the stepping-stone 
which led to his present prosperity. He re- 
mained in the oil fields until 1879. and when 
that industry collapsed, he returned to Pitts- 
burg, where he pursued his trade until 1882, 
after which he began his business career in 
St. Louis. His first contract work was the 
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kansas. To this business he devoted his 
personal attention for some years, but when 
business grew to larger proportions he found 
it necessary to devote his entire time to the 
supervisory management of it. In 1887 he 
had about two hundred carpenters at work 
in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska 
and Colorado, and during that year more 
than $2,000,000 passed through the St. 
Louis banks to his credit. 

In 1 89 1 Mr. Prosser was nominated for 
congress, from the old Ninth district, on the 
Republican ticket, and although he made a 
creditable race, he failed to overcome the 
strong prevailing Democratic majority. Bus- 
iness address, 813 Chestnut street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



STEPHEN SANFORD BROWN. 

Stephen Sanford Brown. Lawyer. Born 
Feb. 14, 1846, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. 
Son of Ammasa I. and Harriett H. (Barlow) 
Brown. Educated in the public schools and 
college of his native state. He took up his 
residence in Maysville, Mo., in 1869. After- 
ward removed to St. Joseph, Mo., and has 
practiced his profession successfully ever 
since. Served in the Civil war in the Six- 
tieth New York Volunteers. He is a member 
of the legal firm of Brown & Dollman, who 
make a specialty of corporation law. He has 
also been connected with various important 
business enterprises. Was one of the organ- 
izers of the St. Joseph Stock Yards Company 
and Union Terminal Railway Company. He 
adheres to the principles of the Republican 
party. 

Mr. Brown was married April 16, 1878, 
in Maysville, Mo., to Mrs. Anna C. Holhert. 
To Mr. and Mrs. Brown one child has been 



born, Albert C. Business address. National 
Bank of St. Joseph building; residence ad- 
dress, 2610 Frederick avenue, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 



JAMES C. GHIO. 

James C. Ghio, president of the Ohio 
Real Estate Company, is the son of John B. 
and Elizabeth Ghio, and was born November 
14, 1848, among the blue grass hills of 
Monticello, Wayne county, Ky. His edu- 
cation was obtained, and the greater part of 
his life has been passed in St. Louis. For 
the past twenty-five years he has been either 
actively identified with, or associated in vari- 
ous business enterprises of more or less im- 
portance, with which he has built up a valua- 
ble and extended business connection. 

Mr. Ghio was married to Miss Betty 
Heydorn, a native of Hamburg, Germany. 
Business address, 14 North Eighth street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY HEIL. 



Henry Heil, founder and president of 
the Henry Heil Chemical Company, was 
born January i, 1854. at Schmalkalden, Ger- 
many. He attended the high school of his 
native town, graduating in the spring of 
1868. He was then apprenticed in the hard- 
ware business, finishing his apprenticeship 
January i, 1871. He continued in the busi- 
ness, first as bookkeeper, then as shipping 
clerk, until December, 1872, when he sailed 
for America. Coming to St. Louis he 
clerked for awhile, and in 1873 entered the 
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a course of study in the St. Louis College of 
Pharmacy, from which he graduated in 1877. 
In 1875, in partnership with E. Hoelke, 
under the style of E. Hoelke & Co., opened 
a drug store on the corner of Grattan street 
and Chouteau avenue. In 1879 he went to 
Leadville, Colo., and opened two drug stores 
in that city, which were conducted under the 
firm style of Heil & Hoelke. He remained 
in Leadville until 18S2, when he returned to 
St. Louis, and the following year bought out 
the business of the late Theo. Kalb, which 
was the foundation of his present magnifi- 
cent enterprise. 

Mr. Heil is an honorary life member of 
the St. Louis College of Pharmacy, a valued 
citizen, and the standing of the Henry Heil 
Chemical Company marks his efficiency as 
a business man. Mr. Heil married Miss 
Adele Rupprecht, March 22, 1887. Business 
address, 212 South Fourth street; residence 
address, 1810 LaSalle street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES C. NICHOLLS. 

Charles C. Nicholls. the senior member 
of the prominent firm of Xicholls-Ritter 
Realty & Financial Company, was born in 
Camden, N. J., January 4, 1855. His father 
was of an English family, and his mother 
Avas born and reared in Philadelphia, Pa. 
IVIr. Nicholls received his early education in 
the public schools of Philadelphia, finishing 
at the Philadelphia High School at a very 
young age. He then secured a clerkship in 
a music store, where he remained some five 
years, or until 1S74. and in September of 
that year came west to St. Louis, having pre- 
viously visited this city and formed a favor- 
able opinion of its prospects, so when the time 



came for him to start out for himself, he 
easily determined where to locate. After 
coming to St. Louis he entered the employ, 
as assistant bookkeeper, of the old firm of 
Beard & Bro., manufacturers of iron safes 
and cotton ties, which firm was established in 
the year 1848. After being with them for 
about one year, he was made general mana- 
ger of their business, and at the end of three 
years, having contemplated a change, he was 
offered by the firm an interest in the business, 
providing he would remain with them. A 
corporation was formed, known as the Beard 
& Bro. Safe & Lock Company, the firm giv- 
ing Mr. Nicholls an interest in the company 
and making him secretary, which position 
he held for eight years. On the death of ]\Ir. 
Beard, the affairs of the concern were wound 
up, Mr. Nicholls being appointed adminis- 
trator of the estate, which was valued at 
about two hundred and fifty thousand 
dollars, and which he closed up satis- 
factorily to all concerned. In the year 
1886 he started in the real estate business 
at 720 Chestnut street, where he remained 
for two years, and then removed to the pres- 
ent location, 713 Chustnut street, where he 
did business under the name of Chas. C. 
Nicholls until April, 1892, when the business 
having grown to such proportions, and being 
too large for one man to handle, Mr. Nicholls 
sold a half interest to E. P. V. Ritter, form- 
erly connected with the "Famous," and they 
together formed the corporation of the 
Nicholls-Ritter Realty & Financial Com- 
pany, which has done a very handsome busi- 
ness during its existence. 

Mr. Nicholls was married in St. Louis 
in the year 1881, to Miss Julia C. Chamber- 
lain, a daughter of Mr. Leslie Garnett, an old 
resident of the city of St. Louis, who was 
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business in 1846. Mr. Nicholls is "a dyed- 
in-the-wool" Presbyterian, being a member 
of the Gi'and Avenue Presbyterian Church, 
having been an elder in that church for the 
past two years. Business address, 713 Chest- 
nut street ; residence address, 4060 West- 
minster place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DAVID F. KAIME. 



David F. Kaime. president of the J. E. 
Kaime Real Estate Company, was born in 
Pittsfield, N. H., April 3, 1837, and edu- 
cated at the academy in his native place. 
Like many other New Englanders of that 
day, as soon as his own education was com- 
pleted, he began teaching the younger gener- 
ation, directing a school in Pittsfield for 
about two years. Removing to St. Louis in 
the winter of 1857, he was soon appointed 
assistant in what was then known as the 
North Freeman Grammar School, opposite 
Carr Square. In June, of the same year, 
w'hen not yet twenty-one years of age, he 
was made principal of the same school, which 
position he continued to hold, with entire 
satisfaction to the public, for three years, 
when he resigned to engage in a manufactur- 
ing business. That very rare article, a good 
teacher, was undoubtedly lost by this change 
of occupation ; but he was equally successful 
in his new pursuit, in which he continued 
until October i, 1864. On that date he was 
admitted as partner in the real estate firm 
of Webb & Kaime, and when, in a few 
months, Mr. Webb retired, the firm of J. E. 
Kaime & Brother was formed, and has re- 
mained in active operation up to the present 
time, with a reputation second to none in 
St. Louis. 



Mr. Kaime is a thorough business man in 
all respects, clear and quick in judgment, 
prompt and energetic in action, asking for 
nothing that is not right and submitting to 
nothing that is wrong, as careful of the in- 
terests entrusted to him as of his own — 
honest, honorable and straightforward in all 
his dealings. These qualities have given him 
a high character in business circles, and at the 
same time gained for him, as their natural 
and appropriate reward, a handsome fortune. 
Those who have known Mr. Kaime longest 
and best esteem him the most as a man who 
has done his duty faithfully and well in all 
the relations of life, public and private. He 
was named in the will of Henry Shaw as 
one of the trustees of the Missouri Botanical 
Garden. Business address, 619 Chestnut 
street; residence address, 3717 Delmar bou- 
levard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



C. DERICKSON McLURE. 

C. Derickson McLure was born in Mar- 
shall, Saline county, Mo., in the year 1844. 
His father and mother came to the west in 
the year 1840, first stopping at St. Louis, 
and finally making their home in Independ- 
ence, Jackson county, in the year 1850, when 
the father returned to St. Louis and pur- 
chased from Theron Barnum the old and 
well-known City Hotel. Mr. McLure, in 
185 1, the second year of his possession of 
the City Hotel, died. In the following years 
the son, C. Derickson McLure, attended 
school in St. Louis, and in 1861, though but 
sixteen years of age, left St. Louis for the 
far west, and became engaged in the freight- 
ing business across the plains from Platts- 
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in business on that line for about two years, 
and in 1863 left Colorado and removed to 
Virginia City, Mon., at which point he re- 
sumed freighting to Salt Lake, and as far 
west as Virginia City, Nevada. 

The mining properties of Montana were 
closely watched and studied by Mr. McLure. 
He became interested in the Grizzly Gulch 
and the Confederate Gulch developments, 
and staid with them for two years. He was 
one of the original locaters of the White- 
latch Union mine, the pioneer quartz mine of 
Montana, and which made the town of 
Helena. He extended his mining operations 
also from Butte and took charge of the Cen- 
tennial Mills at that place. In 1879 he went 
to Phillipsburg and ran the Hope Company's 
mill. All this experience, the reduction of 
ores, the location of mining properties and 
the operations which developed them, simply 
improved his judgment and gave value to 
his opinions and his estimates. He learned 
to know a mine when he saw it, and when 
the Granite Mountain property fell under his 
inspection he was prompt to fasten upon its 
great promise, and as soon as possible, on the 
1 8th of October, 1880. secured an option on 
it from the owners, Holland, Merill, Estill 
& Patton, ol Deer Lodge county, Montana, 
came to St. Louis with the option and sold it 
to the Granite Mountain Mining Company, 
and organized under Montana laws. His 
long experience gave value to his judgment. 
His confidence in the outcome of the property 
was imparted to all his associates. There 
were discouragements and difficulties in the 
way, but Mr. McLure never weakened, held 
his friends to the venture, and the mine at 
last realized all that the most sanguine of its 
owners had hoped for. After the Granite 
Mountain Company was well under way, 
Mr. McLure purchased the valuable property 



now held and developed by the Bi-Mefallic 
Mining company. The Bimetallic was organ- 
ized by Paul Fusz, Charles Clark and Mr. 
McLure. The stock is mainly held in the 
city f.f St. Louis, and has proved a most 
valuable property. 

Mr. McLure is now living in St. Louis, 
enjoying the fruits of his enterprise and good 
judgment in the development of mining 
properties. He is a citizen of large means 
and has been called to many important places 
in the financial institutions of the city. Office 
address, Fourth street; residence address, 
3761 Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE F. WINTER. 

George F. Winter arrived in Kansas 
City, Mo., at one o'clock p. m., on the 19th 
day of May, 1879, where he has since lived 
continuously. He came from Michigan, and 
upon his arrival found here a city of about 
fifty thousand "good people," as he himself 
says. Wyandotte, now Kansas City, Kans., 
contained about five thousand people, making 
about fifty-five thousand population for the 
two places. At the time of his arrival there 
were few graded streets, few sidewalks, no 
pavements, no public buildings, only two 
"bob-tailed" street car lines — in appearance 
and reality the place was little more than an 
overgrown cross-road's town. But the loca- 
tion was right, the surrounding country was 
right, the men who were already here, and 
who came later, were right. While the in- 
habitants themselves are yet wondering, and 
the rest of the country marveling, this mag- 
nificent city has risen before the world's gaze 
with wonderful rapidity. The credit for this 
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press and to every institution and person to a 
more or less degree, within the bounds of the 
city's territory, for all have striven for the 
splendid finality. Mr. Winter is proud to 
have been one of these men, and to have had 
the privilege of contributing to the develop- 
ment of this great western metropolis. He 
has been closely identified with the best in- 
terests since his arrival, and expects to con- 
tinue so to the end. He has been actively 
engaged in handling real estate, principally 
for his own account, during the period of 
twenty-four years consecutively from the 
date first above named. Business address, 
first floor, I02 New York Life building, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



DR. WILLIAM PORTER. 

Dr. William Porter is the son of Rev. 
Byron and Agnes M. (Rankin) Porter. The 
Rev. Mr. Porter was an eminent Presbyte- 
rian divine, who preached for many years 
in Beaver, Pa. His memory is still cherished 
and revered by his old parishioners and fel- 
low townsmen. His wife, the mother of our 
subject, was a lineal descendant of the Burns 
family. It was to her grandfather that the 
famous Scotch bard, Robert Burns, directed 
the letters found in all his memoirs and biog- 
raphies. William, the son, was born March 
1 8, 1850. He was sent to Westminster Col- 
lege, a celebrated Presbyterian institution of 
learning in western Pennsylvania, and grad- 
uated, with first honors, in 1870, taking his 
degree of Bachelor of Arts and subsequently 
receiving the degree of Master of Arts from 
the same institution. He next entered the 
Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia, 
and received his diploma two years later, in 
1872, after which he went to Europe and 



became attached to the London Throat and 
Chest Hospital, becoming in this latter insti- 
tution the first assistant to Dr. Sir Morrill 
MacKenzie, the world-famed English physi- 
cian. He continued with Dr. MacKenzie 
for two years, during which he formed a 
deep and lasting friendship for his distin- 
guished professional brother, which was duly 
reciprocated by the latter. Before returning 
to the United States Dr. Porter continued 
his studies in Berlin, Vienna and Paris, de- 
voting much of his time to diseases of the 
throat and chest. Returning to this country 
in 1875, he determined to locate on the 
Pacific coast to practice his profession. He 
got no farther west, however, than St. Louis, 
and here he finally decided to stop, and has 
been engaged in practice in this city ever 
since. 

Dr. Porter is a general practitioner, his 
chief specialties, if it can be said that he has 
any, being his favorite studies, diseases of 
the throat and chest. He is one of the lead- 
ing physicians in the city and has long been 
in the full enjoyment of an extensive and 
lucrative practice. He is affiliated with the 
leading medical societies of the United States 
and cities, and among them we mention the 
Mississippi Valley Medical Association, of 
which he has been president. He is also a 
fellow of the American Laryngological Asso- 
ciation, and the St. Louis Medical Society. 
He has been president, and is still a member, 
of the American Medical Editors' Associa- 
tion, and is connected with numerous other 
societies. He is consulting physician in the 
throat and chest departments of St. Luke's 
and the Protestant hospitals, and has occu- 
pied the chair of professor of physical diag- 
nosis in the St. Louis College of Physicians 
and Surgeons. 

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Pearl E. Dickenson, of Schenectady, N. Y., 
a member of a distinguished old Knicker- 
bocker family of the Empire State. Oflfice 
address, 520 Olive street ; residence ad- 
dress, 3886 Washington avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CHESTER HARDING KRUM. 

Chester Harding Krum. Lawyer and 
jurist. Born September 13, 1840, in Alton, 
111. Son of Judge John M. and Mary 
(Harding) Krum. His scholastic training 
was received at W^ashington University, 
from which institution he was graduated 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in the 
class of 1863. He then took up the law 
course at Harvard University and received 
the degree of Bachelor of Laws from that 
institution in 1865. Having been admitted 
to the bar in 1 864, he at once began the prac- 
tice of his profession in St. Louis, and in 
1867 became junior mmeber of the firm of 
Krum, Decker & Krum. In 1869 he was 
appointed United States district attorney 
and served in that capacity until 1872. In 
that year he resigned the district attorney- 
ship, to which he had been appointed by 
President Grant, and was elected a judge of 
the St. Louis Circuit Court. He ably dis- 
charged the duties of this judicial office until 
1875, when he resigned to resume the prac- 
tice of his profession. Since then he has 
been in continuous general practice, and has 
been identified with much of the most import- 
ant litigation which has taken place in the 
State and Federal courts of St. Louis within 
that period. From 1873 to 1882 he was a 
member of the faculty of the St. Louis Law 
School. From 1864 until 1888 he took an 
active part in Missouri politics as a Republi- 



can, but in the year last named supported the 
candidate of the Democratic party, and now 
affiliates with the gold standard wing of that 
party. He is a Unitarian churchman and a 
member of the Church of the Messiah of St. 
Louis. 

Mr. Krum was married October 26, 
1866, to Miss Elizabeth H. Cutter, daughter 
of Norman and Frances Cutter. Children : 
Mary F., John M., Clara R., Flora, Elizabeth 
H. and Mabel Krum. Business address, 
500 Roe building; residence address, 5551 
Chamberlain avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM K. BIXBY. 

William K. Bixby, chairman of the board 
of directors of the American Car & Fidelity 
Company, was born in Adrian. Mich.. Janu- 
ary 2, 1857. He graduated at the Adrian 
High School in 1873, and worked in a bank 
in Detroit until 1874. He then determined 
to go south, and arrived in New Orleans in 
September, 1874, leaving there in October 
for Texas, where he entered the employ of 
the International & Great Northern Railroad 
Company, of which the late H. M. Hoxie 
was the general superintendent. He served 
that company in the capacity of train and 
station baggagemaster for several years and 
then entered the L'nited States mail service 
as substitute route agent. He re-entered the 
service of the International & Great North- 
ern Railroad Company as general baggage 
agent, and occupied the same position on the 
Texas & Pacific railway, resigning that posi- 
tion in 1 88 1 to accept the situation of sta- 
tionery agent of the Missouri Pacific Railway 
Company, with headquarters in St. Louis. 
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department on the Wabash, St. Louis & 
Pacific railway, and resigned in 1887 to 
accept the position of supply agent of the 
Missouri Car & Foundry Company. In 1888 
he was elected secretary of the company, 
and soon after vice-president and general 
manager. 

Mr. Bixby was married to Miss Lillian 
Tuttle, of Glens Falls, N. Y., at San Antonio, 
Texas, June 13, 1881. Business address, 
700 Chestnut street ; residence address, Lin- 
dell boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. CHARLES HAMILTON HUGHES. 

Dr. Charles Hamilton Hughes is of old 
royal Welsh stock, his ancestors figuring 
prominently in the seventeenth century, and 
some of them attaining eminence in later 
years in the British army, and at the English 
and Irish bars, and finally one of the family, 
Richard Hughes, coming to this country 
from Tipperary county, Ireland, about 1760. 
He settled first in Pennsylvania, and after 
the war of the Revolution, in which he en- 
listed and fought until it was closed at York- 
town, he settled on a farm in Rockingham 
county, Va. On this farm the ancestor of 
the American branch of the family lived to 
the age of one hundred and five years. One 
of his sons, Richard, came west to Ohio in 
181 5, married a Virginia wife and reared a 
family of twelve children, one of whom, the 
son Harry J., was the father of Dr. Hughes, 
the subject of this sketch. His mother was 
Elizabeth R. Stocker, sister of Judge George 
Stocker, of Illinois. His father was a 
builder of repute in his day. and came to St. 
Louis about 1835. The son. Charles H., 
was born in St. Louis, May 23, 1839, and 



began his early education in that city, com- 
pleting it in 1855, 'It the Iowa University, at 
Davenport. At the end of his academic 
course he began the study of medicine with 
Dr. James Thistle, of Davenport, a physi- 
cian of high repute and brother-in-law of the 
celebrated Dr. Samuel A. Cartwright, of 
New Orleans, from whom Dr. Hughes 
derived great encouragement in his study 
of medical science. 

In 1857 Dr. Hughes continued his studies 
at the St. Louis Medical College, and re- 
ceived his diploma in 1859. While a student 
he was clinical assistant at the United States 
Marine Hospital, then under charge of Dr. 
Wm. M. McPheeters. When the war broke 
out Dr. Hughes joined the state forces as 
assistant surgeon, and in 1862 was commis- 
sioned by Governor Gamble full surgeon, and 
served in the First Missouri State Militia 
Volunteers, on General John B. Gray's staff, 
with the rank of major and surgeon, until 
the close of the conflict. During this service 
he was frequently detailed and put in charge 
of hospitals and camps in St. Louis and vari- 
ous points in the state and west, always dis- 
charging his duties with great skill and abil- 
ity, and meeting the unqualified approval of 
his commanding officer. It was a great expe- 
rience for the young doctor, and did much 
to qualify him for that later career in medical 
science which has given him so wide a repu- 
tation. 

After the war the Doctor pursued his 
practice and was eventuually put in charge 
of the State Insane Asylum, at Fulton, Mo., 
to which place he had been r-ecommended by 
Dr. Charles A. Pope, of St. Louis. He served 
in that institution for five years, and by a 
close study of the insane qualified himself for 
that special practice which he now enjoys in 
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he is consulted by the highest medical author- 
ities of the whole country. Dr. Hughes 
early identified himself with the Association 
of Superintendents of American Institutions 
for the Insane, now the American Medico- 
Psychological Association, and attends its 
annual meetings, contributing by the reading 
of papers and learned discussion much to the 
interest of the sessions and gaining much 
valuable knowledge from his associates. In 
whatever bears upon this great question of 
the nature of the disease of insanity and its 
proper treatment, Dr. Hughes may now be 
regarded as an authority. The result has 
been to secure for himself a large and most 
valuable special practice, to which he devotes 
his nights and days, and is altogether one of 
the most conscientious and successful work- 
ers in the medical ranks of St. Louis. He 
also finds time to contribute largely to the 
periodical publications of the country which 
are devoted to the subject of mental aliena- 
tion and kindred topics. It would be impos- 
sible in this short sketch to notice half the 
important work he has done in the way of 
editorial writing, contributions and public 
addresses on all leading subjects of medical 
science. So great has been the doctor's suc- 
cess as a lecturer, and more particularly as a 
teacher, that his valuable services were found 
necessary in the organizing and establishing 
of the Barnes Medical College, of St. Louis, 
and out of regard for his ability and success 
as a professor, he w-as unanimously elected 
president of the faculty of the college. 

Dr. Hughes is a gentleman of kindly dis- 
position, of easy and engaging manners, and 
enjoys a popularity among his medical 
brethren and among his fellow citizens gener- 
ally which must contribute greatly to the 
pleasure of his reflections upon his long 
career. He has been twice married ; his first 



wife Miss Addie Case, daughter of the late 
Luther Case, of St. Louis; his second wife 
the daughter of H. Lawther, Esq., of Callo- 
way county. ]Mo. Oflfice address, 3S74 Wash- 
ington boulevard; residence address, Rich- 
mond Heights, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ELIAS EUGENE SHATTUCK. 

Elias Eugene Shattuck. Born June 25, 
1849, i" Smithfield, Genesee county, N. Y. 
His parents were John Forbs and Emily Me- 
lissa (Roselle) Shattuck, both of whom were 
natives of New York. William S. was the 
founder of the family in America. The an- 
cestors on the paternal line are traced to the 
pilgrims of the Mayflower. Three great 
uncles and a great-grandfather were in the 
war of the Revolution, and two of the great 
uncles, David and \\'illiam Shattuck, were 
named in the pension list printed by act of 
Congress in 1885. Eugene E. at about the 
age of five removed with his parents from 
Genesee county to Albion, Mich. Two years 
later they removed to the vicinity of Inde- 
pendence, Iowa, where the son resided at the 
county home until he reached his majority. 
He acquired his education in the public 
schools. In 1870 he removed to Kansas 
City, Mo., but shortly returned to his former 
home in Independence, Iowa. In 1873 ''•^ 
studied medicine with Dr. Graham, an able 
preceptor of that day; later he entered the 
dental ofifice of Dr. Bissell, and practiced 
dentistry in Independence, Iowa, vintil 1879. 
when he returned to Kansas City and located 
permanently. In 1890 he was one of the 
founders of the Western Dental College, was 
one of the principal stockholders, a member 
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tor in the faculty of that college, and for two 
years he served as treasurer of the institution, 
when he sold his interests in the college and 
retired from active connection with it. In 
1897 he assisted in establishing a publication 
known as Poultry Culture, and conducted the 
enterprise until 1903. In 189S he organized 
the Great Mid-Continental Poultry Show. 
In 1875 he was appointed to the position of 
deputy United States marshal of the Fourth 
district of Iowa, with headquarters at 
Dubuque. In 1886 he became a member of 
the Masonic Order. In 1881 he joined the 
Missouri State Dental Society, and in 1892 
was elected first vice-president of that organ- 
ization. In 189 1 he became identified with 
the American Dental Association, and also a 
representative at the World's Dental Con- 
gress in Chicago during the World's Fair. 

December 19, 1874, Mr. Shattuck was 
married to Miss Josephine Coleman, of Inde- 
pendence, Iowa. Business address, 505 New 
Ridge building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



dress, 626 Chestnut street ; residence address, 
4473 Washington boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



LOUIS HENRY TONTRUP. 

Louis Henry Tontrup. Real estate and 
financial agent. Born June 29, 1842, in St. 
Louis. Mo. Son of Jobst H. and Sophia 
(Bramsch) Tontrup. Educated in the public 
and high school and Commercial College, St. 
Louis, Mo. Has been actively engaged in 
the real estate business and as a financial 
agent since 1884 under the firm name of 
Papin & Tontrup. In political matters he 
affiliates with the Republican party. 

IMr. Tontrup was married June 18, 1867, 
in St. Louis, ^lo., to Miss Georgie Cor- 
win. Three children living. Business ad- 



FREDERICK WILLIAM LEHMANN. 

Frederick William Lehmann. Lawyer. 
Son of Frederick and Sophia Lehmann. He 
is of Prussian nativity, and was only a child 
when his parents brought him to America. 
Was educated in the public schools in Ohio 
and Indiana and at Tabor College, Tabor, 
Iowa, graduating with the class of 1873, 
and a little later was admitted to the bar of 
Fremont county, Iowa. He practiced his 
profession in Fremont county, and at Ne- 
braska City, Neb., until 1876, when he re- 
moved to Des Moines, Iowa, where he re- 
mained until 1890, then came to St. Louis 
as general attorney for the Wabash Railroad 
Company, a position which he filled until 
June I, 1895, when he resigned to organize, 
with others, the law firm of Boyle, Priest & 
Lehmann. Mr. Lehmann has given much of 
his attention and has taken part in much of 
the important litigation in local courts since 
he has been a citizen of St. Louis. Until 
1896 Mr. Lehmann affiliated with the regu- 
lar organization of the Democratic party, but 
at that time became prominent as a gold 
Democrat and he has since then been acting 
independently. Was one of the chief pro- 
moters of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition 
and is a director in the corporation which 
has its interests in charge. He is president 
of the Public Library Association, a member 
of the American Bar Association, and a 
member of the Union Club, the St. Louis 
Club, the University Club, the Mercantile 
Club and the Noonday Club. 

Mr. Lehmann married Miss Nora Stark, 



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of Des Moines, Iowa, December 23, 1879, 
and has three sons : Sears, Frederick W. and 
Jack Lehmann. Business address, Laclede 
building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. WILLLV^I STONE WOODS. 

Dr. William Stone Woods. President of 
the National Bank of Commerce, Kansas 
City. Bom in Columbus, Mo., November i, 
1840. Son of James Harris Woods, a native 
of the state of Kentucky. Mr. Woods was 
educated in his native town, graduated with 
the class of 1861 in the Kentucky State L'ni- 
versity. Studied medicine and attended ;i 
course of lectures in the St. Louis Medical 
College and the Jefferson Medical College, 
of Philadelphia. Graduated at the latter in- 
stitution in 1864. Practiced his profession 
at Middle Grove, Monroe county, Mo., for 
five years. He engaged with his brother in 
the mercantile business in Omaha, then the 
terminus of the Union Pacific railroad, oper- 
ating and conducting a large grocery busi- 
ness, and as the road progressed and moved 
westward so did the grocery l)usiness, open- 
ing a store at all new points as far as Ogden, 
Utah, and the business proved very profita- 
ble. Dr. Woods moved to Rocheport, Boone 
county, Mo., where he established the Roche- 
port Savings Bank, which he successfully 
conducted from June, 1869, to January, 
1880. He came to Kansas City in 1880, 
where he entered into business as a member 
of the firm of Grimes, Woods, La Force & 
Co.. wholesale dry goods merchants, an 
establishment that ranked foremost in the 
southwest, as it is today under another suc- 
cessor. Litimately acquainted with the sav- 
ings bank business, six months after he ar- 



rived in Kansas City he purchased an in- 
terest in the Kansas City Savings Associa- 
tion, and succeeded Mr. Powell as president, 
assuming the active management in 1882. 
The name of the institution was changed to 
the Bank of Commerce, which afterwards 
merged into the National Bank of Com- 
merce. The National Bank of Commerce 
was organized in 1887, ^^'^^h a capital of one 
million dollars, since then increasing to over 
two millions, and Dr. Woods has served as 
its president ever since. His close and care- 
ful attention and able management have 
given it an enviable standing among the 
banking institutions of the west. Though 
the Doctor devotes the greater part of his 
time to banking interests, he is a man of 
broad capability and has interested himself 
in many leading enterprises. He operated 
with his brother, James M., a large cattle 
business in Dakota, in which they supplied 
beef to the forts and Indian agencies for 
about eight years, and prospered in this 
undertaking. In 1894 he withdrew from the 
partnership existing, disposing of his interest 
to his brother. He was also interested as a 
stockholder in the Kansas City & Gulf rail- 
road. He has been extensively interested in 
real estate, being the owner of several large 
business buildings in Kansas City. Steadily 
the Doctor has worked his way up from a 
small beginning in the mercantile business 
to a successful manager of finance well 
known over the entire state of Missouri. He 
has aided a number of young men who today 
are prominent in commercial circles, and has 
given liberally to all worthy charitable 
enterprises. 

On the loth day of June, 1856, Mr. 
Woods was married at Paris, Mo., to Miss 
Bina MacBride, daughter of Judge Mac- 
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ter has been born, Julia, and educated at the 
Baltimore Female College, and now the wife 
of Arthur Grisom, of Kansas City, Mo. Mr. 
Woods is conservative in his political views. 
He is a member of the First Christian 
Church, of Kansas City, Mo., also a member 
of the I. O. O. F. In outdoor sports he takes 
a general delight. Business address, Na- 
tional Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



DR. ALFRED BYRON KING. 

Dr. Alfred Byron King, osteopathic phy- 
sician, is a production of the sterling soil of 
Pennsylvania, of whom many are found in 
the state of Missouri, and have achieved 
prominence in the different trades and profes- 
sions. The new school of osteopathy, in 
which there have been so many miraculous 
cures of the diseases that human flesh is heir 
to, has in this state added another successful 
practitioner to their ranks in the person of 
Dr. Alfred Byron Iving, who was born on 
the nation's glorious holiday, Fourth of July, 
1862, in Kittaning. Pa., a son of George 
and Caroline (Simpson) King. Dr. King 
acquired his education in the public school 
and Amity College, College Springs, Iowa, 
graduating in the latter institution in the 
class of 1883, with the degree of B. A. Still 
later in the College of Osetopathy, Des 
Moines, Iowa, graduating January 31, 1901 
with the degree of D. O. He began his early 
career in a wholesale grocery house, where 
he occupied a responsible position for twelve 
years in Omaha, Neb. His health failed him 
completely, and after regaining it through 
osteopathy, he was induced to take up the 
profession as his future work, and fully 
equipped himself in a thorough medical edu- 



cation, which has made his practice since 
February i, 1901, not only successful but 
has given him a conspicuous position among 
the most able osteopathists of the state of 
Missouri. He is president of the St. Louis 
Osteopathic Association ; member of the Na- 
tional Osteopathic Association; member of 
the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Oste- 
opathic Association. In religious belief he 
is a Presbyterian. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. 

Mr. King was married October 13, 1892, 
in Dorchester, Nab., to Miss Lora Maud 
Keppler. One daughter has been born to 
this union, Louise King. Business address, 
309 Mermod & Jaccard building; residence 
address, 4614A Delmar boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



ROBERT M. BRUCE. 

Robert M. Bruce. Lumberman. Born 
January 16, 1863. Son of Charles and Julia 
Ann (Pettibone) Bruce, the father a native 
of Vermont, the mother a native of New 
York. The education of Robert M. was 
obtained in the common schools of Kansas, 
and a commercial course in the Lawrence 
Business College, Lawrence, Kans. His 
father was a pioneer lumberman of the state 
of Kansas, and operated that business up to 
the time of his death, which occurred in 1867. 
Robert M., with another brother, was asso- 
ciated with his father in the lumber business. 
When the Bruce Lumber Company was or- 
ganized he became the president of the com- 
pany, and has been engaged continuously in 
the lumber business in Kansas City, Mo., 
since 1887. He became a resident of that 
city in 1890, and has since resided there, 
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tion in conducting the extensive business of 
the Bruce Lumber Company, with ofhces and 
yards at Twentieth and Grand avenue. 

Mr. Bruce is a member of the Manufact- 
urers' Club, Kansas Cty, Mo. ; "Who Who" 
Club, the K. of P., and a Republican in poli- 
tics. He was married November 24 (New 
Years Day), to Miss Hattie A. Rollins, of 
Silverton, Colo. Two children have been 
born, Addie R. and Julia Marie Bruce. Busi- 
ness address, Twentieth and Grand avenue, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



FLAVEL B. TIFFANY. 

Flavel B. Tiffany, A. M., M. D., born 
April 28, 1846, in Cicero (shores of 
Oneida Lake), Oneida county, N. Y. Son 
of Ambrose B. and Electra Shepard Tiffany. 
The Tiffany family originated in England 
and was founded in America by three broth- 
ers, who sought homes in the New World in 
early colonial days. Dr. Tiffany, although 
born in the east, was reared in the west, 
spending his childhood days in Wisconsin, 
Minnesota and Michigan. He began his 
education in the Badger state town of Rut- 
land, Dane county, and pursued his studies 
in the schools here and in Minnesota until 
seventeen years of age when, prompted by a 
spirit of patriotism, he enlisted in the Second 
Battery, Light Artillery, of Alinnesota, under 
the command of Captain Hotchkiss, and 
served from the fall of 1864 until the close 
of the war. Returning then to Minnesota 
he continued his education in the public 
schools of Faribault, and afterwards in 
Bishop Whipple's college. He then taught 
school and entered the State University at 
Minneapolis where he completed his literary 



education. He chose the medical profession 
and entered the office of Dr. A. E. Johnson, 
of St. Anthony, Minn., taking up the study 
of medicine under the direction of that gen- 
tleman. Later he entered the medical de- 
partment of the University of Michigan, at 
Ann Arbor, graduating in the class of 1874. 
He then engaged in the practice of medicine 
at Grand Haven, Mich., and afterwards re- 
moved to St. Louis, and subsequently to 
Medford, Minn. He studied in London two 
years, devoting his time and attention to the 
special study of the diseases of the eye, ear, 
nose and throat. He continued his investi- 
gation in Paris, Berlin and X'ienna. On his 
return to his native land, in 1878, he located 
permanently in Kansas City, Mo. In the 
year 1847 ^'^ again returned to Europe with 
the view of making a special study of the 
diseases of the eye. In the line of his spe- 
cialty Dr. Tiffany has been very successful 
and has performed remarkable cures. Many 
of the mysteries of the science have been 
brought from the region of the unknown to 
the known through his systematic and thor- 
ough investigation. He is a member of the 
county, district and state medical societies, 
also an honorary member of the Kansas State 
Medical Society. He is an active member 
of the American Medical Association, the 
American Microscopical Society, the Pan- 
American Medical Association and the In- 
ternational Medical Congress. He is an 
author of note in the medical world, having 
made valuable contributions to the literature 
of his profession in this country. Among 
the books of which he is the author is one 
recently published entitled, "Anomalies of 
Refraction and Diseases of the Eye." He is 
one of the organizers and founders of the 
University Medical College of Kansas City, 
Mo., and is professor of ophthalmology in 





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that institution. He is oculist for the Mis- 
souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company. 
He is trustee of the University College and 
Hospital, and editor of the Eye, Ear, Nose 
and Throat Clinic. Dr. Tiffany is a Knight 
Templar Mason, and in politics is a Republi- 
can. 

Dr. Tiffany was married in May, 1879, 
to Miss Olive E. Fairbanks, of Massachu- 
setts. Business address, 805 McGee street, 
Kansas City, Mo. Residence address, 2457 
Troost avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



Hattie Young, and they have one child, Ethel 
Nelson Wood. Business and residence ad- 
dress, Palmyra, Missouri. 



MALCOLM LATIMER WOOD. 

Malcolm Latimer Wood. Cashier of the 
Bank of Palmyra, Mo. Born August 2, 
1 86 1, in Shelbina, Mo. Son of David and 
Fanny (Duncan) Wood. Educated in the 
public schools of Shelby county. Mo. His 
great-great-grandfather, John Wood, on the 
paternal line, was a Revolutionary soldier. 
He began his career as a school teacher; 
studied medicine, graduating at Louisville, 
Ky., in 1892, and has practiced his profession 
in Marion county, Mo., since his graduation. 
He is a member of the Marion County Medi- 
cal Society, and a member and official in the 
Christian Church, Palmyra, Mo. He was 
the principal organizer of the Bank of Pal- 
myra, incorporated and established in 1904, 
and was elected its cashier, and has had 
charge of the bank since its organization. 
In 1887 he was deputy county clerk of 
Marion county. Mo. He is a member of the 
A. F. & A. M., and has served as W. M. of 
Palmyra Lodge, No. 18. He affiliates with 
the Democratic party, and was married Feb- 
ruary 5, 1882, in Lentner, Mo., to Miss 
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WILLIAM P. LIGHTHOLDER. 

William P. Lightholder. Born Novem- 
ber 10, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of 
James and Eliza (Williamson) Lightholder. 
After receiving a private school education he 
was, for a time, a student at St. Louis Uni- 
versity. He then entered St. Mary's College 
and was graduated from that institution in 
the class of 1886. Returning to St. Louis 
he took a course of study at Jones' Commer- 
cial College. After quitting school he was, 
for a time, associated with his father in the 
grocery business, but in 1888 became con- 
nected with the real estate firm of Green & 
LaMotte, in which connection he remained 
eight years. September i, 1896, he estab- 
lished a real estate business of his own, and 
a year later formed a partnership with Phil 
A. Philabert, which firm is still existing and 
occupies a prominent position. He has for 
several years devoted a considerable share of 
his time to military affairs, and Light Bat- 
tery "A," of which St. Louis is pardonably 
proud. When the United States declared 
war with Spain, in 1898, the services of this 
military organization were promptly ten- 
dered to the Federal government, and when 
the battery was mustered into the United 
States army, Mr. Lightholder was appointed 
quartermaster sergeant. In this capacity he 
served until toward the close of 1898. 

Mr. Lightholder was elected a member 
of the Legislature, as a Democrat, from the 
Sixth district of St. Louis, at the November 
election, 1900, and January i, 1903 was ap- 



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.pointed chief deputy recorder of records. 
Office address City Hall Bldg., St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CYRUS PACKARD WALBRIDGE. 

Cyrus Packard Walbridge, ex-mayor of 
St. Louis, was born July 20, 1849, ^^ Madrid, 
N. Y., a son of Rev. Orlo Judson and Maria 
Althea (Packard) Walbridge. He is a 
great-grandson of Asa Walbridge, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier, and a grandson of Frank- 
lin Walbridge, a soldier of the war of 1812. 
Attended the common schools in Illinois until 
1 86 1, when his parents removed to North- 
field, Minn. He did farm labor and worked 
as a carpenter and taught school to earn 
money to procure an education. He studied at 
Carleton College at Northfield and was grad- 
uated from the law department of the Uni- 
versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor, in 1874. 
He began the practice of his profession at 
Minneapolis in 1874; removed to St. Louis 
in 1876, and became the legal advisor of 
Jacob S. Merrell. Upon the death of Mr. 
Merrell in 1885, his heirs incorporated the 
business under the name of J. S. Merrell, 
Drug Co., and Mr. Walbridge was made 
president, which position he now holds. Is 
also president of the Bell Telephone Com- 
pany of Missouri since February, 1904. Was 
elected as a Republican of the House of De— 
egates of the City of St. Louis, and represent- 
ed the tenth ward in that body until 1883. 
In 1889 he w^as elected president of the 
council. In 1893 his official record was in- 
dorsed by his enthusiastic nomination to the 
Mayorality, the first Republican Mayor elect- 
ed for eight years. In 1897 he retired to 
private life, having given the city one of the 
best administrations in its history. Was a 



candidate for Governor on the Republican 
ticket in 1904. When Mayor of the city of 
St. Louis, one feature of his administration 
was to refuse to beg for outside help at the 
time of the great cyclone and his example 
has been followed by American cities since 
that time. At different times he has been 
president of the Western Wholesale Drug- 
gists' Association. He is now president of 
the Business Men's League. He is a mem- 
ber of the First Congregational Church. He 
has fraternal connections with the Masonic 
Order, the Knights of Pythias, and Wood- 
man of the World, and has interested him- 
self in promoting the welfare of all these or- 
ganizations. As a public speaker. Mayor 
Walbridge gained enviable fame. October 9, 
1879, Mr. Walbridge married Miss Lizzie 
Merrell, daughter of Jacob S. Merrell. They 
have one son, Merrell Packard Walbridge, 
born September 5, 1884, who is a student in 
Amherst College. Business address, 4th and 
Market Sts, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ROBERT M. NOONAN. 

Robert M. Noonan. Real Estate opera- 
tor and financier. Born in St. Louis, Novem- 
ber 9, 1853, and was reared in the city. Son 
of Thomas and Sarah A. (Harmon) 
Noonan. After graduating from the St. 
Louis University he took a special course of 
study designed to fit him for business pur- 
suits, and then entered the employ of the 
Missouri Pacific Railway Company. He 
continued in the employ of that com- 
pany, from one position of trust to an- 
other, for nine years, winning the confidence 
of his superiors in the railroad service. He 
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the employ of the National Bank of Com- 
merce, where he remained two years at 
which time he went into business on his 
own account and associated himself with his 
brother, Thomas S. Noonan, w4io had estab- 
lished a real estate agency in St. Louis, and 
for eight years they were associated together. 
In 1890 his brother died and he became his 
successor as head of the firm, which position 
he has since retained and in which he has 
gained great popularity. Personally he is no 
less popular than as a business man. In 
politics he is a Democrat. Religiously he is 
a Catholic. Has taken an active interest in 
local military affairs, and was at one time a 
member of Company K, of the National 
Guard of St. Louis. Valley Council, No. 
468, of the Royal Arcanum, also numbers 
him among its members. 

Mr. Noonan was married, in 1891, to 
Miss Maude Henry. Business address, 704 
Chestnut street. St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK HAGERMAN. 

Frank Hagerman, one of the most promi- 
nent members of the Kansas City bar, was 
born in Clark county. Mo., April 2"^, 1857. 
His boyhood was spent in Keokuk, Iowa, 
and there he received the rudiments of his 
education at the public schools. In early 
manhood he began reading law in the office 
of Hon. P. T. Lomax, of Keokuk, and in 
due time was admitted to practice in 1876. 
He came to Kansas City in 1887 and became 
associated with the firm of Pratt, McCrary, 
Ferry & Hagerman, he being the junior 
member of this strong legal partnership. 
After Judge McCrary's death, and in 1896, 
the firm was dissolved, and since that date 



Mr. Hagerman has been practicing alone. 
His success at the bar has been pronounced, 
rapid and merited. In several lines of prac- 
tice, he probably has not a superior in Kansas 
City or the west. His success has been 
attained by conscientious labor and upright 
professional conduct. His professional repu- 
tation has been beyond question. 

Mr. Hagerman was married February 
2"], 1887, to Ellen Comstock, of St. Louis. 
His brother, James Hagerman, of St. Loviis, 
is president of the American Bar Association. 



CHARLES JOSEPH WALKER. 

Charles Joseph Walker. Lawyer. Born 
in St. Charles county. Mo., June 30, 1846. 
Son of Warren and Mary Baker (May) 
Walker. Educated in the public schools of 
St. Charles county, Mo. ; Central College, 
Fayette, Mo., 1865; Pritchett College, Glas- 
gow, 1866-68; Dartmouth College, New 
Hampshire, 1868-1870. His mother's father 
was a captain in the war of 181 2. Mr. 
Walker was born and reared on a farm, 
working in the summer season and attend- 
ing school in the winter. He left his home to 
earn his own livlihood in 1865. Student 
from 1865 to 1870. From 1870 to 1873 
taught school; admitted to the bar in 1874, 
and began practice at Wentzville, in St. 
Charles county, removing from there to Co- 
lumbia, Boone county, Mo., in 1900. He 
was president of the school board at Wentz- 
ville, Mo., 1888 to 1900. Public administra- 
of St. Charles county, Mo., 1892 to 1896. 
State senator of the Tenth district 1898 to 
1906. He conducts a large individual prac- 
tice in his profession. He is a member of 
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A. O. U. W., and Columbia Commercial 
Club. In religious belief he is a southern 
]\Iethodist, and he affiliates with the Demo- 
cratic party. 

Mr. Walker was married December 29, 
1880, in Trenton, 111., to Miss Hattie Ficklin 
Shore. Children: Mary S., Charles J., Jr., 
Benjamin S., Warren Linn, Thomas Lee and 
Robert M. W'alker. Business address, Haden, 
building; residence address, 11 13 University 
avenue, Columbia, Missouri. 



descendant of Captain John Marsh, a Revo- 
lutionary soldier. Children : Harry M. and 
Jennie M. Rubey. Business and residence 
address, Macon, Missouri. 



WEB M. RUBEY. 



Web M. Rubey. Lawyer. Born Octo- 
ber 19, 1835. Son of Dr. Samuel C. and 
Elizabeth (Allison) Rubey. Educated at 
West Point, Iowa, and LaGrange, Mo. His 
grandmother's (on the maternal side) 
maiden name was Carroll, and she was the 
daughter of Captain John Carroll, a Revolu- 
tionary soldier. Mr. Rubey began his career 
as a clerk in county offices, from 1856 to 
1859. From 1859 to 1861 bookkeeper in the 
Western Bank of Missouri at Bloomington, 
and organized the same bank in 1859 ; studied 
law and admitted to the practice in 1864, 
which he has been engaged in more or less 
since. He is now president of the State Ex- 
change Bank, Macon, Mo. He was state 
senator from 1874 to 1878. Representative 
in the house in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth 
General Assembly. In religion he is a Prot- 
estant, formerly Methodist Episcopal Church 
South. In politics he is a Democrat (of the 
Folk kind). 

Mr. Rubey was married October 20, 
1864, in West Ely, Marion county, Mo., to 
Jennie P. Marsh, who is a member of the 
Daughters of the Revolution, and a lineal 



EDWARD F. WICKHAM. 

Edward F. Wickham, Coal Dealer. Born 
Feb. 14th, 1854, St. Louis, Missouri. Son of 
John and Fanny (Graham) Wickham. A 
material ancestor, Thomas Nelson, Jr., was 
a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
The paternal great-grandfather of John 
Wickham, of Richmond, Va., defended 
Aaron Burr. The great-grandfather of John 
Wickham was judge of the Circuit Court of 
St. Louis. Maternal great-grandfather was 
major in the United States army in 1849, 
and grandfather was first lieutenant of the 
United States man-of-war, St. Louis, in the 
early forties and fifties. Mr. Wickham ac- 
quired his education in the high school, Alex- 
ander, Pa. ; Racine College, Racine, Wis. ; 
Washington University, St. Louis. He be- 
gan his business career as a shipping clerk in 
a wholesale grocery house. Railroad agent 
and coal merchant. In 1905 he organized the 
firm of E. F. Wickham & Co., St. Louis, 
which is composed of E. F. and W. F. W'ick- 
ham, wholesale coal dealers; also the Uni- 
versal adding machine Company, of St. 
Louis, in 1886, of which he is now president. 
In religious belief he is an Episcopalian, and 
is independent in political matters. Is a 
member of the University Club; Noonday 
Club; Country Club; Florrisant Club; Mer- 
chants League ; Merchants' Exchange ; Kings 
Lake Club ; Corning, Brookland ; Stonewall ; 
Illian Yacht Club; Jamestown Yacht Club, 
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May 6, 1886, Mr. Wickham was married, 
in St. Louis, to Miss Nellie Catlin. Chil- 
dren : Emily C, Francis G. and Eleanor C. 
Wickham. Business address, suite "jiy/Zif 
Commercial building; residence address, 24 
Vandeventer Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



EDWIN OBED STANARD. 

Edwin Obed Stanard. Manufacturer, 
statesman and financier. Born at Newport, 
N. H., January 5, 1832. Son of Obed and 
Elizabeth A. (Webster) Stanard. He was 
about four years old when his parents re- 
moved to Van Buren county, Iowa, where he 
received his first education in the public and 
high schools of Keosauqua. After leaving 
school he engaged for awhile in teaching, but 
in 1856 he went to Alton, 111., as a book- 
keeper. One year later came to St. Louis 
and started in business for himself as a com- 
mission merchant. This business continued 
until in 1861. He found it advisable to estab- 
lish branch houses in a number of other 
cities. In 1866 he disposed of this business 
and turned his attention to milling, soon be- 
coming a manufacturer of flour on a great 
scale. When he located in St. Louis he be- 
came a member of the Merchants' Exchange, 
in which he has ever since retained his in- 
terests. In 1866 was elected its president. 
Has also served as one of the vice-presidents 
of the National Board of Trade. In 1893 
was president of the board of directors of the 
St. Louis Exposition. Was one of the 
leaders in organizing the Business Men's 
League. For fourteen years was president 
of the Citizens' Fire Insurance Company, and 
is now director of the Boatmans' Bank and 
the St. Louis Union Trust Company. In 



1868 was nominated for lieutenant governor 
by the regular Republican State Convention 
at Jefferson City. In 1870 made the race for 
Congress in the lower district of St. Louis. 
As a member of Congress he devoted his 
highest eft'orts to the improving of the mouth 
of the Mississippi river. The passage of the 
bill authorizing the construction of the jetties 
along the South Pass— the least promising 
of any of the mouths of a river — was due in 
a great measure to his efforts. At the expi- 
ration of the term he then devoted his time 
to his large business interests. He is a mem- 
ber of the the Methodist Episcopal Church. 
In 1856 Mr. Stanard married Miss 
Kauffman, of Iowa. They have three chil- 
dren, one son and two daughters. Business 
address, 420 Chamber of Commerce build- 
ing, St. Louis. Missouri. 



HARRY MARSH RUBEY. 

Harry Marsh Rubey. Banker. Born 
July 25, 1865, in Macon, Mo. Son of Web 
M. and Jennie P. (Marsh) Rubey. Educated 
in the public schools of Macon, Mo. ; 
St. James Military Academy, Macon, Mo. ; 
State University of Missouri, 1879 to 1884. 
Mr. Rubey began his career as a bank clerk, 
became assistant cashier, then cashier, being 
appointed to the latter position in March, 
1894. He organized the State Exchange 
Bank, of Macon, Mo., March i, 1894, com- 
posed of the following officials: Web M. 
Rubey, president ; Thomas E. Wardell, vice- 
president ; Harry M. Rubey, cashier. Estab- 
lished March i, 1894. Mr. Rubey is also a 
director and treasurer of the Macon Times- 
Democrat. He is a thirty-second degree 
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and Elk. Member of the city council ; vice- 
president of the school board, 1904 to 1905 ; 
member of the Legislature, Forty-third Gen- 
eral Assembly, and served on committees of 
appropriation, banks and banking. In poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. 

Mr. Rubey was married December 27, 
1883, in Macon, Mo., to Miss Lizzie A. 
Wardell. They have an adopted daughter, 
Mary Rubey. Business and residence ad- 
dress, Macon, Missouri. 



MARK AUSTIN McGRUDER. 

Mark Austin McGruder. Lawyer and 
law author. Born September 16, 1879, near 
Hughesville, Pettis county, Mo. Son of Col. 
Monterville and Amy (Harris) McGruder. 
He acquired his education in the district 
schools at Hughesville, Mo. ; Westminster 
College, at Fulton, Mo. ; Missouri State Law 
School, Columbia, Mo., graduating in the 
class of 1901, with the degree of L. L. B. ; 
ISIissouri State Military Academy, 1901. His 
father. Col. Monterville McGruder, was a 
commissioned officer in Stonewall Jackson's 
brigade, and served almost exclusively in 
secret service as a Confederate spy. At the 
close of the war he was released from prison 
at Camp Chase, Ohio. Mark A. McGruder 
is a grand nephew of Major General John 
Bankhead McGruder, who served through 
the Mexican war and the late Civil war. 
Graduaded from West Point and was a Con- 
federate. John Bankhead IMcGruder was a 
captain in the United States army in the 
Mexican war, and in the battle of Churu- 
busco called Stonewall Jackson to take the 
place of First Lieutenant Johnstone, who was 
killed. Upon ]\IcGruder's recommendation 



Jackson was promoted to brevet rank of cap- 
tain. After service under McGruder at Cha- 
pultepec that officer again recommended him 
for promotion, and he was breveted major. 
John Bankhead McGruder is buried 'n 
Houston, Texas, and the father of Mark A., 
Col. Monterville McGruder, is buried in 
Sedalia, Mo. His mother's ancestors, the 
Harris's, settled in and founded Harrisburg. 
Pa. After graduating from the law school 
Mark A. began the practice of his profession 
in Sedalia, Mo. While not engaged in his 
legal practice, which takes up nearly all of his 
time, he is kept busy in the preparation of his 
publication, in which he is engaged in writ- 
ing. As a text writer he has contributed to 
the press "Spend Thrift Trusts," "Laws of 
Commerce," second edition published in Sep- 
tember, 1902; "McGruder on Agency," the 
latter in manuscript and will be completed 
for publication in the fall of 1905. Mr. 
McGruder is a member of the Granite Lodge, 
No. 272, A. F. & A. M. ; K. of P. ; Ancient 
Order United Workmen ; Modern Woodmen 
of America. He is a Presbyterian in relig- 
ious belief, and is a Democrat in politics. 
Business address, 310 Ohio street, Sedalia, 
Mo. ; residence address, Hughesville, Pettis 
county, ^Missouri. 



PAUL J. WIELANDY. 

Paul J. W^ielandy. Wholesale book and 
stationery dealer. Born June 5, 1864, in 
Jefferson City, AIo. Son of John F. and 
Mrs. (Kuehne) W^ielandy. Educated in the 
public schools of Missouri. His father, 
John F. Wielandy. was a legislator in 1873 ; 
secretary of agriculture in 1876; receiver of 
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tration. He began as office boy, then as clerk 
for Shorb & Boland, in the wholesale sta- 
tionery business. Traveled for the John L. 
Boland Book & Stationery Company, of St. 
Louis, for nineteen years in the far west. 
Organized the Blackwell-Wielandy Book & 
Stationery Company in January, 1902. Is 
a member of the Mercantile Club, St. Louis; 
Knights Templar, and thirty-second degree 
]\Iason. In religious belief he is a Protest- 
ant, and in politics he is a Republican. 

Mr. Wielandy married June 28, 1904, in 
St. Louis, Mo., Louisa Angermueller. Busi- 
ness address, 716 Washington avenue; resi- 
dence address, 2928 Harper street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



HARRY SEBASTIAN MILLER. 

Harry Sebastian Miller. Lawyer. Born 
September 28, 1867, in Wilmot, Stark 
county, Ohio. Son of Sebastian and Sophia 
(Yost) Miller. Educated in the public and 
high schools at Wilmot, Ohio ; attended 
Mount Union College, Alliance, Ohio, and 
graduated from that institution in July, 1891, 
with the degree of A. B. Received the de- 
gree of A. M. in 1894; graduated in the Uni- 
versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, legal de- 
partment, in 1895, LL. B. ; graduated from 
Mount Union Business College in July, 
1888. He is a member of the college fra- 
ternity, Signa Alpha Epsilon. He was 
reared on a farm; taught school; located in 
Joplin, Mo., in 1895, and after acquiring his 
legal education was admitted to the bar and 
began practice in Joplin, and has continued 
in the profession ever since. He has assisted 
in organizing various mining corporations. 
He is a member of the Masonic Order ; 
Knights Templar ; I. O. O. F. ; Sons of Vet- 



erans of the late Civil war. In religious 
belief he is a Methodist. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was assistant prosecuting 
attorney from January i, 1899, to January 
I, 1901. 

Mr. Miller was married February 14, 
1900, in Joplin, Mo. Business address, 420 
Main street; residence address, 530 North 
Wall street, Joplin, Missouri. 



TOM P. BARNETT. 

Tom P. Barnett. Architect. Born in 
St. Louis, Missouri. Son of George 
I. and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Barnett. 
Educated in the St. Louis University, 
graduating in 1886. He is a native born 
Missourian. After acquiring a technical edu- 
cation he was employed as designer by Bar- 
nett & Haynes, from 1898 to 1893, when he 
became a member of the firm, changing its 
name to Barnett, Haynes & Barnett. In 
addition to his architectural attainments he 
has distinguished himself as a landscape 
painter, and some of his paintings have been 
exhibited at the National Academy, New 
York; Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia, 
Pa. ; Art Institute of Chicago, and the West- 
ern Artists" Association. The firm of Bar- 
nett, Haynes & Barnett has designed the fol- 
lowing buildings : Hotel Jefferson, St. Louis, 
Mo. ; St. Louis Star building, St. Ann's asy- 
lum ; new Illinois Athleetic Club ; Liberal 
Arts building, Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
tion; First National Bank building, Nash- 
ville, Tenn. ; Loretto Academy, Kansas City, 
Mo. He is a member of the American In- 
stitute of Architects, Artists' Guild, Mercan- 
tile Club; Busineses Men's League of St. 
Louis ; Missouri Athletic Club ; New Illinois 



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Athletic Club, of Chicago. He is a Catholic 
in religious belief, and Republican in politics. 
Mr. Barnett was married September i8, 
1890, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Lillian Ar- 
mentrout. Children : Leontine M., Thomas 
M., George D. and Ira D. Barnett. Business 
address, 520 Frisco building; residence ad- 
dress, Price postoffice, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN HAROLD SEARS. 

John Harold Sears. Lawyer. Born May 
9, 1 88 1, in Knoxville, Iowa. Son of Wil- 
liam H. and Kate (Milner) Sears. He ac- 
quired his education in the St. Louis High 
School, and at Yale University, graduating 
from the latter in the class of 1904, with the 
degree of LL. B. General Curtis, of the late 
Civil war, was great uncle of Mr. Sears. 
Since 1904 Mr. Sears has been engaged in 
the practice of law in St. Louis, and has 
built up a large and lucrative practice, and is 
known as a safe and able counsellor in his 
profession. He is a member of the Missouri 
Athletic Club, and college societies. In re- 
ligious belief he is a Swedenborgin. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. Business address, 
143 Laclede building; residence address, 
Missouri Athletic Club, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK KNOWLTON SAWYER. 

Frank Knowlton Sawyer. Manufacturer. 
Born March 28, 1874, in St. Louis, Mo. 
Son of F. O. and Ellen (Knowlton) Sawyer. 
Educated in the Manual Training School and 
Washington University, graduating in the 
class of 1894. He is a member of the Amer- 



ican Insulating Material Manufacturing Co., 
and Easily Cleaned Filter Co., both of 
which he is vice-president. Former estab- 
lished in 1903. After graduating in the 
Washington University he obtained a posi- 
tion with the F. O. Sawyer Paper Company, 
and later he acquired an interest in the 
American Insulating ^^laterial Manufactur- 
ing Co., and the Easily Cleaned Filter Co. 
Mr. Sawyer in religious belief is a Unita- 
rian. In politics he is a Republican. 

Mr. Sawyer was married June 17, 1897, 
in Kansas City, Mo., to Miss Isabelle Mor- 
ton Lucas. Children : Mary Morton and 
Francis Lucas. Business address, 9 South 
Third street ; residence address, 4424 Laclede 
avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JEROME DILLARD POTTS. 

Jerome Dillard Potts. Physician and sur- 
geon. Born April 6, 1854, in Henry county. 
Mo. Son of James Fredrick and Cornelia 
Elizabeth (McRetty) Potts. He received his 
education in the' public schools, in Rock- 
port Academy, in the Missouri State Uni- 
versity, Philadelphia, and in the New 
York Daily Clinics, and graduated at 
the New York Park School. His grcBt- 
grandfather was in the Revolutionary war 
and participated in the battles of Georgetown 
and Brandywine, after which he was incapac- 
itated for further service. His grandfather 
was in the war of 1812. 

Dr. Potts began the general practice of 
medicine and surgery in June, 1878, which 
he continued until the latter part of 1903, 
when he discontinued it and now limits his 
practice to diseases of the alimentary canal 
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of Barnes Medical University, and now edit- 
ing a treatise on proctotomy for under grad- 
uates and general practitioners. He is vice- 
president of the Missouri State Medical As- 
sociation ; president Cooper County Medical 
Society. He is a Baptist in religious belief, 
and Democratic in politics. Married May 
4, 1S80, in Cooper county, Mo., to Miss 
Carrie C. (Mills) Potts. Children: Erla L., 
Jerome F., Vibern E., and Martha U. Potts. 
Business address, 4500 Olive street; resi- 
dence address, 844 Kings Highway, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE DENNIS BARNETT. 

George Dennis Barnett. Architect. Born 
October 7, 1863, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of 
George L and Elizabeth (Armstrong) Bar- 
nett. He was educated at the private school 
of the Christian Brothers' College. After 
completing his scholastic studies he entered 
the office of his father and pursued a course 
of instruction in architecture, both in theory 
and practice. Mr. Barnett was the designer 
for Barnett & Taylor for several years. 
In September, 1889, he organized the firm 
of Barnett & Haynes, and later Barnett, 
Haynes & Barnett. The firm is composed 
of the following gentlemen : George D. Bar- 
nett, John J. Haynes and T. P. Barnett. This 
firm ranks among the first in St. Louis. The 
more conspicuous of their professional 
undertakings are the Jefferson Hotel ; Illi- 
nois Athletic building; the Liberal Arts Pal- 
ace, World's Fair ; St. Louis Star office 
building ; Commonwealth Trust building ; a 
twelve story office building at Nashville, 
Tenn., and a large number of institutional 
buildings throughout the country that re- 



flect honorable credit upon the ability and 
superior taste of the architects. Mr. Bar- 
nett is president of the National Patent Lath 
& Manufacturing Company. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Architects, 
Cabanne, Ontario ; Athletic and Illinois Ath- 
letic (of Chicago) clubs, and the Business 
Men's League. He is a stanch Democrat, 
and a Catholic in religious belief. 

On June 27, 1889, he was married to 
Miss Nellie R. Haynes, of St. Louis, Mo., a 
lady of many accomplishments, and daughter 
of Thomas and Mary (Farrell) Haynes. 
Mr. and Mrs. Barnett have two children, 
George and Theodosia Barnett. Business 
address, 520 Frisco building; residence ad- 
dress, 5539 Von Versen avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



DAVIS MOREHEAD PINKERTON 

Davis Morehead Pinkerton. Banker. 
Born August 29, 1856, in Frankfort, Ky. 
Son of Collin M. Pinkerton and Louisa F. 
Davis. Educated in a country school near 
Blackburn, Mo. Spent two years (1873 and 
1874) in the State University at Columbia, 
Mo. Married Miss Ollie P. Parsons Sep- 
tember 2, 1885, in Blackburn, Mo. Of this 
marriage three children were born, Hugh M., 
Avery S. and William Paul Pinkerton. A 
member of the Commercial Club, Kansas 
City. Politics, Democratic. Religion, Chris- 
tian. His early life was spent on a farm. 
Went into the grain business at Blackburn, 
Mo., in 1880. Was elected cashier of the 
Bank of Blackburn in 1884, which position 
he held until 1900, when he came to Kansas 
City to accept the position of cashier of the 
Kansas City State Bank, of Kansas City, 
Mo., which position he now holds. Is a 



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Iklason and a member of Temple Lodge, 
Chapter, and a Knight Templar ; also an Odd 
Fellow. Business address, 812 Delaware 
street; residence address, 1851 Pendleton 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



CHARLES H. WRAY. 

Charles H. Wray. Architect. Born in 
1869 in Alton, 111. Son of John W. and 
Emma (Drummond) Wray. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of his native state; 
the Manual Training School, of St. Louis, 
Mo. ; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 
Boston, Mass., 1890. Mr. Wray is the archi- 
tect and designer of a large number of public 
and private buildings in St. Louis. Mo. He 
is a member of the Architect firm of Milligan 
& Wray, composed of R. M. Milligan and 
Charles H. Wray, established in 1905. 

Mr. Wray was married December 18, 
1897, in Boston, Mass., to Miss Carrie J. 
Foster. To this union one daughter has been 
born, Dorothy Wray. Business address 
Chemical building; residence address, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



EUGENE FLEMING SMITH. 

Eugene Fleming Smith. Secretary of 
Battle & Co. Born June 13. 1872, in St. 
Louis, Mo. Son of Frank W. and Maria 
Mole Fleming. Educated in the public 
schools and at Bryant & Stratton's Commer- 
ciau College. St. Louis. Began his career in 
the grain business in St. Louis with the John 
E. Hall Commission Company, E. F. Smith 
Grain Company, and Battle & Co. Operated 



the grain business for ten years for himself, 
and three years for the firm of E. F. Smith 
Grain Company, of St. Louis, and is now the 
assistant secretary of Battle & Co., dealers 
in (proprietary) drugs. A member of the 
Missouri Athletic Club, and an Episcopalian 
in religious belief. Affiliates with the Demo- 
cratic party. 

Mr. Smith was married, April 5, 1898, in 
St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Helen Battle. Two 
children have been born, Eugene Battle 
and Margaret Parker Smith. Business ad- 
dress, 2001 Locust street; residence address, 
4463 Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



E. A. BENNETT. 



E. A. Bennett. Loan and financial 
agent. Born May 14, 1849, in Springfield, 
Ohio. Son of B. G. and Anna (White) Ben- 
nett. Educated in the public schools of Ohio. 
Mr. Bennett located in Holt county, Mo., 
in 1870. He began his career as a mechanic, 
then merchant from 1870 to 1875. Six years 
traveling salesman for farm implements and 
machinery, from 1876 to 1882. He removed 
to Butler, Mo., in October, 1882. He there 
organizefl the Bennett-Wheeler Mercantile 
Company, and was its president and manager 
from 1882 to January i, 1898, when he re- 
tired, and has since that time engaged in the 
loan, real estate and collection business. He 
helped organize the Farmers' Bank, of Bates 
county, in 1889, of which he is president, 
the other officers being W. F: Duvall, 
cashier ; Homer Duvall, assistant cashier, 
and Dr. J. W. Choate, secretary. Jilr. Ben- 
nett also helped organize the Butler Building 
& Loan Association, and is its president ; as- 
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Manufacturing Company, and the A. H. Cul- 
ver Furniture Company, being secretary of 
the former and vice-president of the latter. 
Is a Republican in politics, and served two 
terms as city alderman of Butler, Mo. He is 
a member of ' the Bankers' Association of 
Missouri, and in religious belief a Presbyte- 
rian. 

Mr. Bennett was married September 19, 
1878, to Miss Hannah J. Roberts. They 
have four children : Mabel, Helen, Charles 
and Gordon. Business and residence ad- 
dress, Butler, Missouri. 



JOHN ADAMS PRESCOTT. 

John Adams Prescott. Financial agent. 
Born October 2, 1866, in East Jaffrey, N. 
H. Son of Addison and Mary Ann (Sawyer) 
Prescott. Was educated in the public schools 
of Topeka, Kans. Graduated in 1884. At- 
tended the university in Lawrence, Kans., 
four years, graduating in 1888. 

Mr. Prescott began business life in 1888, 
in Topeka, Kans., as assistant cashier of the 
Kansas Investment Company, and the In- 
vestment Trust Company. In 1890 to 1891 
was engaged in real estate business in Chi- 
cago, 111.; 1891 to 1894, was vice-president 
of the City Real Estate Trust Company in 
Boston, Mass; 1894 to 1899, was vice-presi- 
dent and general manager of the Concordia 
Loan & Trust Company, of Kansas City, Mo. 
Since June 15, 1899, in business alone as 
financial agent. His character of business 
consists of liquidations and re-organizations 
and general financial work. In 1903 was 
president of the Securities Conservation 
Company, incorporated in 1902. Was presi- 
dent, from I go I to 1904, of the City Real 



Estate Trust Company, incorporated in 1890. 
Also director and member of the Executive 
Committee of the Guardian Trust Company. 
Politics, Republican. Married to Miss Grace 
Canfield, February 20, 1896, at Wichita 
Falls, Texas. Two children have been born, 
Constance May and Katherine Grace Pres- 
cott. 

Mr. Prescott is a member of the Society 
of Sons of the American Revolution for the 
State of Missouri ; also member of the Com- 
mercial Club; Knife and Fork Club, of 
Kansas City, Mo. ; also Republican Club of 
the city of New York. His business address 
is 309 Fidelity Trust Company building; res- 
idence address, 3416 Baltimore avenue, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



EDWARD FLETCHER SWINNEY. 

Edward Fletcher Swinney. President 
of the First National Bank, Kansas City, Mo. 
Born August i, 1857, at Marysville, Camp- 
bell county, Va. Son of John Henry and 
Celina Frances (Jasper) Swinney. Attended 
the common schools of his native state, and 
the Blackburg (Virginia) University from 
1872 to 1875. After thoroughly fitting and 
preparing himself, he engaged in the bank- 
ing business at Fayette, Mo., August 15, 
1878. Previous to that time he was a clerk 
in a general store in Fayette, Mo., where he 
served some three and one-half years. After- 
wards a messenger in the old Hendrix Bank, 
and promoted to cashier in the same institu- 
tion. From 1883 to 1887 cashier of the Col- 
orado National Bank. In 1887 cashier of 
the First National Bank, of Kansas City, 
Mo., until 1900. Since 1900 president. Mr. 
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of the Kansas City school district. He is a 
director of the Chicago & Alton Railroad ; 
Metropolitan Street Railway Company; Fi- 
delity Trust Company ; Missouri Saving As- 
sociation. In September, 1904, was elected 
president of the American Banking Associa- 
tion. In politics he is a Democrat. Relig- 
ious belief Episcopalian. He is a member of 
the Country and Elm Ridge clubs, of Kan- 
sas City, Mo. 

Mr. Swinney was married November 14, 
1882, in Howard county, Mo., to Miss Ida 
Lee. Business address, First National Bank 
building; residence address, 3334 Harrison 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



ARMIN LAWRENCE OKEN 
SCHUELER. 

Armin Lawrence Oken Schueler, of Kan- 
sas City, Mo., was born in Cleveland, Ohio, 
March 24, 1854 and is the son of Dr. George 
and Mary (Frey) Schueler. The ancestors 
on the father's side came from Germany, and 
on the mother's side from Switzerland. 

Armin L. O. was educated in the public 
schools of Belleville, 111., and in early life 
worked on a farm. After attaining the age 
of thirteen years he made his own way in the 
world. He began early to learn the litho- 
graphing business with the R. P. Studley 
Company, of St. Louis, and in 1873 entered 
the employ of Sterling & Webster, examiners 
of land titles, St. Louis, and while with them 
learned all the intricacies of the business. He 
went to Kansas City, in 1879, and established 
the Schueler Abstract of Land Titles. He is 
at present president and manager of the Land 
Title Guarantee Company, of Kansas City. 
Since coming to Kansas City he has identi- 



fied himself with many of the important 
movements which have contributed so much 
to build up this wonderful municipality. He 
takes a deep interest in all laudable public 
enterprises. 

On November 15, 1883, Mr. Schueler 
was united in marriage with Mollie D. 
'V^acaro, at Louisville, Ky., and has two chil- 
dren, Armin Vacaro and Lucile Morledge. 



THOMAS H. PREST. 

Thomas H. Prest. Manufacturer and 
inventor. He is a native of Connecticut. His 
father was an Englishman by birth, and a 
stone cutter by occupation. The son, Thomas 
H., was thrown upon his own resources at 
the early age of ten years, and his education 
was practically through his own efforts, and 
in greater part from experience in the world 
and his intercourse with men. He was reared 
in Kentucky, where he learned the trade of 
tinner. In 1871 he removed to Kansas City, 
and for some years worked as journeyman. 
In 1875 he engaged in the retail stove and 
tinware business. His business increased 
from year to year and he increased his facil- 
ties as necessity required. In the field of 
discovery he devised a tubular furnace, em- 
bodying all the essentials of economy, clean- 
liness, durability, and heating capacity, and 
adapted to burning all species of fuel, soft or 
hard coal, coke or wood. The furnace bears 
the name of its inventor and, with other 
])roducts of the factory, including various 
styles of heating apparatus, steam and hot 
water boilers, finds a large sale all over the 
state of Missouri. The Prest Heating Com- 
pany was incorporated in 1893, with Thomas 
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ployed in the works, and every style of manu- 
facturing, from pig metal to the finished 
furnace, is performed upon the premises. 
Mr. Prest is a member of the Manufact- 
urers' Association, of Kansas City, and of 
the Sheet Metal Makers' Association. He 
was married to Miss Sally W. Baily, a native 
of Kentucky. One daughter has been born 
to the marriage, Pearl M. 



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FRANCIS ORVILLE SAWYER. 

Francis Orville Savifyer, president and 
treasurer of the American Insulating Mate- 
rial Manufacturing Company, composed of 
F. O. Sawyer, J. B. C. Lucas, Charles C. 
Hall and Frank K. Sawyer, and established 
in 1859. He began his business career as 
F. O. Sawyer & Co., and has steadily ad- 
vanced to the presidency of the F. O. Sawyer 
Paper Company. He was educated in the 
Woodward College, Cincinnati, Ohio, in 
1 85 1. He is a member of the Mercantile 
Club, St. Louis. In religious belief he is 
a Unitarian, and Republican in politics. In 
1 86 1 he was enlisted with the Missouri Na- 
tional Guards for a period of three months. 
He was married in 1872, in Bunker Hill, 
111., to Miss Ellen Knowlton. Children: 
Frank K. and Mary K. Sawyer. Business 
address, 9 South Third street; residence ad- 
dress, 4246 Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



MOSES SHOENBERG. 

Moses Shoenberg. Merchant. Born De- 
cember 2, 1852, in Dayton, Ohio. Son of 
Elias and Fanny (Rothschild) Shoenberg. 



His education was acquired in the public 
schools and high school of Dayton, Ohio. 
Mr. Shoenberg is at present connected with 
many prominent business enterprises as fol- 
lows : President of the May Mercantile Com- 
pany, a director in the Mechanics-Ameri- 
can National Bank, Jewish Hospital, and 
United Jewish charities, and treasurer 
of the Columbia Club. The May Mer- 
cantile Company is composed of the fol- 
lowing individuals : Moses Shoenberg, presi- 
dent ; J. E. Shoenberg, vice-president ; Syd- 
ney M. Shoenberg, treasurer ; Henry I. Ittle- 
son, secretary; incorporated in March, 1904. 
Mr. Shoenberg is also an officer and director 
of The May Company, Cleveland, Ohio, the 
largest retail concern in the state of Ohio; 
and the May Shoe & Clothing Company, 
Denver, Colo., the largest business of its kind 
in the west. He is a member of the Noon- 
day, Mercantile and Columbian clubs, and 
Business Men's League. He is an adherent 
to the Jewish belief ; in politics he is a Repub- 
lican. He has been interested in the commer- 
cial business for himself as follows : Started 
in Springfield, Ohio, in 1876; moved to 
Joplin, Mo., in 1878; Leadville, Colo., 1879, 
where he remained until 1885. He left, 
owing to his wife's health, and embarked in 
the dry goods business in Kansas City, Mo., 
with his brothers-in-law, the Bernheimers. 
In 1892 he, with his brothers, bought the 
business of the "Famous," St. Louis, and 
moved to that city to take the management 
of same. He retired from the "Famous" in 
December, 1903, when the business of D. 
Crawford & Co. was purchased, and which 
is now known as the May Company. Kansas 
City, ]\Io., 1885 ; St. Louis, Mo., 1892, and 
in the mercantile business since the former 
date, 1876. 

Mr. Shoenberg was married October 6, 



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1880, at Quincy, III, to Miss Dollie Bern- 
heimer. One child has been born to this 
union, Sydney ^lelville Shoenberg. Business 
address, Sixth and Washington avenue; resi- 
dence address, West End Hotel, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CLINTON E. UDELL. 

Clinton E. Udell. Wholesale dealer in 
cheese. Born October 6, 1848, in Jefferson, 
Ohio. Son of Cornelius and Lois Cotton 
(Langworthy) Udell. Educated in the Jef- 
ferson High School; Grand River Institute, 
Austinburg, Ohio ; Spencerian Commercial 
College, Geneva, Ohio. He is a maternal 
decendants of Gen. John Cotton, who was 
a general in the Revolutionary war, and was 
buried in Plymouth cemetery, Plymouth, 
Mass. The sword he carried is now in the 
Plymouth (Mass.) museum. Mr. Udell be- 
gan his career as a clerk, and in the brokerage 
business until 1877. I'^ that year he was 
appointed, by Hon. Carl Schurz, Indian in- 
spector of supplies. Formed a co-partnership 
with A. D. DeLand, at Sheboygan, Wis., in 
1894, under the style of C. E. Udell & Co., 
wholesale dealers in cheese. In 1882 C. E. 
Udell & Co. succeeded S. R. Udell & Co., 
who established the business in 1874. Their 
business has grown from sales of $100,000 
per annum, to $1,000,000 per annum, for the 
two houses, one in St. Louis, and one in 
Sheboygan. In mercantile and financial 
circles Mr. Udell is well known. He is a 
director and vice-president in the Provident 
Chemical Works; director in the American 
Credit Indemnity Company, of New York, 
and has served three years as director of the 
Mercantile Club, of St. Louis, Mo. He is 
a member of the Hamilton Republican Club; 



Missouri Athletic Club; Mercantile Club; 
Glen Echo Country Club; Business IMen's 
League; ^Merchants' Exchange; Y. M. C. 
A., and member of the Royal Arcanum. In 
religious belief he is a Baptist, and a deacon 
in the church. He affiliates with the Repub- 
lican party. Married September 25, 1872, 
in Jefferson, Ohio. One child born, Eliza- 
beth Udell. Business address, 410-412 N. 
Second street ; residence address, 4009 West- 
minster Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY G. PERT. 

Henry G. Pert, of the Kansas City (Mis- 
souri) Interurban Railway, and treasurer of 
the Industrial Investment Company, was 
born in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and was 
there reared and educated. While yet in his 
early manhood he engaged in the hardware 
business in Norwood and Canton, of that 
state, and continued the same until 1887, 
when he came west and first located in 
Harper, Kans., where he engaged in the real 
estate business in connection with that of 
making loans. He thus continued with much 
success until 1897, when he came to Kansas 
City and resumed the same line of business. 
While thus engaged he gradually took up the 
business of electric railway construction, and 
in conjunction with others promoted the con- 
struction of the Kansas City & Leavenworth 
Electric Railway, a line connecting those two 
cities. .They are now engaged in promoting 
and building a line from Kansas City to 
Topeka, and have already graded over forty 
miles of the railroad. Mr. Pert and his part- 
ner have already done much for the growth 
and development of Kansas City, having 
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etc. They are closely identified with every 
movement to develop the city — are leaders of 
progress. 

Mr. Pert is president of the Kansas City, 
Lawrence & Topeka railway, and secretary 
and treasurer of the New England Crude Oil 
Company. He is also associated with several 
other important business enterprises. 



OMAR E. ROBINSON. 

Omar E. Robinson. Lawyer. Born De- 
cember 17, 1869, in Scotland county, Mo. 
Son of George W. and Cornelia Robinson. 
Graduated from the Missouri University in 
1892, with degree of D. D. L. Member of 
Phi Delta Phi. After receiving a thorough 
legal education, was admitted to the bar in 
1902, and began the practice of his profes- 
sion at Appleton City, Mo. In 1893 elected 
city attorney; 1894, prosecuting attorney; 
re-elected prosecuting attorney of St. 
Clair county. Mo., in 1896. Engaged in 
practice in Kansas City in 1899. Is a mem- 
ber of the Kansas City Bar Association; 
Knight Templar Mason ; member I. O. O. F. 
Democratic in politics. Married, June 28, 
1898, in Lowry City, Mo., to Miss Ida 
Cocke. Business address, 206-207 Massa- 
chusetts building; residence address, 3745 
Pennsylvania avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



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JOHN E. SWANGER. 

John E. Swanger. Secretary of State. 
Born June 22, 1864, 'n Milan, Mo. Son of 
Jefiferson and Sarah Ann (Camp) Swanger. 
Educated in the State Normal, at Kirkville, 



Mo. Graduate of the law department of the 
Michigan University, June 27, 1894. He 
began his career as a farmer, then a school 
teacher, then practiced law and then entered 
the newspaper business. He is one of the 
proprietors and editor of the Milan Repub- 
lican, established in 1875. He is a member 
of the A. F. & A. M., K. of P., K. O. T. M. 
and M. W. A. Methodist in religious belief. 
Republican in politics. He was a member of 
the Thirty-seventh and Thirty-eighth Gen- 
eral Assemblies of Missouri. Married, July 
I, 1898, in Milan, Mo., to Miss Norma Fay 
Eubanks. Business address, State Capitol 
building, Jefferson City, Missouri. 



CELSUS OREAR. 



Celsus Orear. Secretary of the Black- 
well-Wielandy Book & Stationery Company. 
Born April 6, 1869, in Saline county. Mo. 
Son of Belvard J. and Margaret (Brand- 
ham) Orear. He was educated in the public 
schools and graduated from Marshall (Mis- 
souri) High School in the class of 1887. 
Father Belvard J. Orear was judge of the 
County Court eight years, and prominent in 
state politics, and a descendant from one of 
the old families of Virginia. Lived on the 
farm with his parents until nineteen years of 
age, when he engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness; in 1888, as manager of a stationary 
store in the county seat of Saline county, 
and in 1892 removed to St. Louis, Mo., and 
was connected for several years with a large 
jobbing and stationery house as a clerk, and 
afterwards as a traveling salesman in the 
south, until 1902, when the present firm of 
Blackwell-Wielandy Book & Stationery 
Company was organized, and was elected its 



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secretary, which position he has held ever 
since. Mr. Orear was one of the organizers 
of the Blackwell-Wielandy Book & Station- 
ery Company. He was married April 19, 
1898, in Marshall, Mo., to Miss Ida Noble. 
One daughter has been born, Genevieve 
Noble Orear. Business address, 716 Wash- 
ington avenue; residence address, 331 North 
Boyle avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ISAAC M. RIDGE, M. D. 

Isaac M. Ridge, M. D. In the history of 
Kansas City no one has borne a more cred- 
itable part than the gentleman whose name 
introduces this review. For almost half a 
century he has lived in this locality. From 
the days when this region, now occupied by 
substantial buildings, magnificent homes and 
churches, large industries and fine mercan- 
tile houses, was a wild forest, rough and 
heavily timbered, through which the Indians 
yet frequently traveled and camped, on beg- 
ging tours, the Doctor located here, and 
from that hour to this has taken an advanced 
stand in favor of development and improve- 
ment. Educational, social and moral inter- 
ests have been promoted through his efforts 
and the material welfare of the city owes 
much to him. Loyal to every duty, he is a 
valued citizen and an upright, honorable man 
whose career demonstrates what can be ac- 
complished by persistent effort, energy and 
earnest endeavor. The Doctor was born in 
Adair county, Ky., on the 9th of July, 1825. 
His father was of Welsh and Pennsylvania 
Dutch ancestry. The great-grandfather of 
Mr. Ridge removed from Wales, his native 
land, on account of religious views, and. 



crossing the Atlantic to America, in the latter 
part of the Seventeenth century, he landed 
either in North Carolina or Virginia, in 
which region many of his descendants are 
yet living. The grandfather, William Ridge, 
was probably a soldier in the Revolutionary 
war. In pioneer days he removed to Ken- 
tucky, where, for some years, he carried on 
farming. His family numbered six sons, and 
after his death three of the number were 
bound out to trades. The maternal grand- 
father of Doctor Ridge was Champ Dilling- 
ham, a native of North Carolina, who, on the 
paternal side, was descended from a High- 
land Scotch family. He aided in driving the 
Indians from Kentucky, and was identified 
with much of the pioneer history of that 
state. In manner he was very reserved and 
quiet, a great lover of books and a very 
highly educated man. His father was a 
Scotch Baptist preacher, and his wife, a 
Miss Bailey, came of French Huguenot 
stock. In 1834 Dr. Ridge accompanied his 
parents on their removal to Missouri where 
the Doctor's boyhood days were, in part, 
spent on the farm, and in the blacksmith 
shop. He went to private school six months 
in the year and the remainder of his time he 
spent at hard labor. He became familiar 
with the modes of farming, and also a good 
mechanic, and after even beginning practice 
he could as easily shoe a horse as set a limb, 
or sharpen a plow as well as a surgeon's 
knife, and even did so after coming to Kan- 
sas City. He attended the common schools 
and completed the high school course at Do- 
ver, Mo. He studied medicine with Dr. I. 
S. Warner, of Dover; entered the medical 
department of Transylvania University at 
Lexington, K., graduating in 1848 with hon- 
ors of his class, and soon afterwards came 
to Kansas City. The Wyandotte Indian, 









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whom he treated, gave him the name of 
"Little Thunder." He obtained a powerful 
influence among the various Indian tribes. 
He was a successful practitioner over a large 
scope of country previous to the Civil war. 
In 1 86 1 there was no other practicing physi- 
cian in this section, and he bestowed his serv- 
ices on both Confederate and Union; both 
the wearer of the blue and the gray. At an 
early day he made extensive purchases of 
real estate in the vicinity of Kansas City. 
He erected a magnificent residence known as 
"Castle Ridge," commanding a view of the 
city and surrounding country. 

In 1850 Mr. Ridge was married to Miss 
Eliza A. Smart, of Kansas City, now de- 
ceased, a lady of rare accomplishments and 
charitably inclined. He was again married, 
in 1882, to Miss May D. Campbell, of Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, who possesses superior musical 
talents, both as vocalist and pianist. Her rare 
musical talent has gained her a wide reputa- 
tion and made her a great favorite both in 
this city and Cincinnati, and having a 
national renown as such she was appointed 
by the state of Missouri as one of the direc- 
tors of music at the World's Fair in Chi- 
cago, in 1893. She has been an instructor 
in both vocal and instrumental music. She 
was a teacher in a Christian college at Co- 
lumbia, Mo., and director of music in the 
State University at Columbia. Dr. Ridge 
erected the New Ridge building in Kansas 
City, and has been connected with many other 
business enterprises. He is a Free Mason 
and has taken all the degrees in Scottish 
York-rite Masonry, excepting the thirty- 
third degree in the southern jurisdiction in 
Scottish Rite Masonry; a member of the 
Mystic Shrine. He retired from active prac- 
tice about 1875 to give his attention to num- 
erous other interests. Business address, 
12 



New Ridge building, fourth floor; residence 
address, Woodland, southeast corner Twen- 
ty-first, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JACOB KLEIN. 



Jacob Klein, lawyer, and formerly judge 
of the Circuit Court of St. Louis, was born 
September i, 1845, ^ son of John M. and 
Caroline (Guth) Klein. His parents came 
from Germany to the United States in the 
year 1851, landing at New Orleans, and a 
year later settled in St. Louis. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools of St. Louis, and 
later began the study of law in the office of 
a well known Missouri advocate, Seymour 
Voullaire, with whom he remained about two 
years, then continued his studies with the 
law firm of Knox & Smith. In 1869 he was 
admitted to the bar, and immediately began 
the practice of law in St. Louis, where he 
has remained ever since. After a year of 
practice, he went through a course at the 
Harvard Law School for the purpose of 
completing his legal education, where he 
graduated in the class of 1871, with the 
degree of LL. B. He practiced alone until 
in 1 88 1, when William E. Fisse became his 
partner, the firm name being Klein & Fisse. 
This firm lasted until in January, 1889, when 
the subject of our sketch was elected judge of 
the Circuit Court, and took his seat, which 
he occupied until January i, 1901, in court 
room No. i. His chief pleasure in life is the 
conducting of difficult cases, and he delights 
in disentangling and simplifying, and the in- 
tricacy of a case only serves to stimulate him 
to mental brilliancy. He is a Republican in 
politics. His adopted city always finds him 
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and he has constantly proven himself thereljy 
a model St. Louisian. He is one of the 
faculty of the St. Louis Law School. He 
was married, April 17, 1873, to Miss Lilly 
Schreiber. They have four children. Busi- 
ness address, Mercantile Trust building, 
Eighth and Locust streets, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



DAVID WILSON RIDER. 

David W'ilson Rider, superintendent of 
the Kansas City (Missouri) Belt Railway, 
was born at Geneseo, 111., August 25, 1857. 
He entered the railway service as early as 
1 87 1, as messenger boy, and was successively 
advanced to freight handler, switchman, 
brakeman, conductor, yardmaster and station 
agent. From October to December, 1881, 
he was superintendent of the Peoria & Pekin 
Union Railway; and from December, 1881, 
to January 10, 1887, was chief clerk to the 
division superintendent of the Wabash Rail- 
road. He was then for a short time fuel 
agent of the same road ; but from May, 1887, 
to July, 1889, was secretary and chief clerk 
to the receiver of the Wabash Railroad. 
From July, 1889, to July, 1891, he was 
superintendent of the Jacksonville Southern 
line; and then for a little more than a year 
he was general superintendent of that line. 
From October 11, 1892, to date, he has been 
superintendent of the Kansas City Belt Rail- 
way. He is interested in a number of enter- 
prises outside of his railway occupation, and 
is regarded as one of the strong business 
men of the city, and one of the prominent 
railway leaders of the west. He has served 
as director of the Commercial Club, and of 
the convention hall committee. He is a 
thirty-second degree Mason, having taken 



both the Scottish and York rites. He is a 
member of the Episcopal Church, of which 
he has been vestryman for many years. He 
is a member of the Driving Club, of the Elks 
Order, and has been chairman of the execu- 
tive committee of the Car Service Associa- 
tion since its organization; president of the 
Kansas City Division of the Central Associa- 
tion of Railroad Officers; director of the 
Kansas City Provident Association, and is 
well known and highly respected for his 
many excellent qualities. 



CHARLES NAGEL. 



Charles Nagel. Lawyer. Born in Colo- 
rado county, Texas, August 9, 1849. Son 
of Herman and Friederika Nagel. He re- 
ceived his elementary schooling in a coun- 
try school in Austin county, Texas. In 1863 
he went to Mexico, and from there took a 
steamer for New York, from which point he 
came to St. Louis February 4, 1864. For a 
year he attended a German private school, 
and in 1865 entered the Central High School 
of St. Louis, from which he graduated in 
1868 as valedictorian of his class. In 1870 
entered the St. Louis Law School, graduated 
and received his degree in 1872. Later en- 
tered the University of Berlin, studied a year, 
and returned to St. Louis in 1873. where 
he has since been engaged in practice. In 
1 88 1 he was elected to the Legislature, and 
his course there made his reputation as a 
conscientious public servant. For four years, 
from 1893 to 1897, he was president of the 
council, the upper house of the St. Louis 
municipal legislature, and there sustained his 
reputation for integrity. He is a stanch Re- 
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of education, and since 1885 ^''^^ been a lec- 
turer at the St. Louis Law School. He is a 
trustee of Washington University, and a 
member of the Board of Control of the St. 
Louis Museum of Fine Arts. Is a member 
of a number of societies, among them being 
the six leading clubs of the metropolis. Mr. 
Nagel is a gentleman of ability, which has 
been supplemented by a good education. 
Business address, 700 Security building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JOSL\H JOPLIN WILLIAMS. 

Josiah Joplin Williams. Lawyer. Born 
May 3, 1858, in Carthage, 111. Son of Jesse 
C. and Mary (Collyer) Williams. Graduated 
at Carthage College, Illinois, in 1877, with 
degree of A. M. The paternal and maternal 
great-grandfathers of Mr. Williams both 
were in the Revolutionary war. Mr. Wil- 
liams was admitted to the bar in June, 1879, 
at Springfield, 111. Removed to Kansas City, 
!Mo., in 1 88 1. Engaged in general practice. 
Held position of assistant prosecuting attor- 
ney from 1892 to 1894. Associate city coun- 
sellor, 1901 to 1905. Member of the Kansas 
City Bar Association, Knife and Fork Club, 
and affiliates with the Democratic party. 
Business address, 30 Water Works building ; 
residence address, Lafayette Hotel, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



ARTHUR PENNELL. 

Arthur Pennell. Inventor and mechani- 
cal engineer. Born March 21, 1842, in Exe- 
ter, England. Son of Richard Lewin and 
Jane (Hyde) Pennell. Educated in St. 



Nicolas College, Laucing, Sussex; King's 
College, London, graduating in 1862. After 
completing his scientific studies he became 
connected, in 1863, with Beyer & Peacock, 
engineers, Gorten foundry, Manchester, 
England; 1866, London & Northwestern 
Railway Company; 1869, topographical en- 
gineer for geological survey of Santo Do- 
mingo, West Indies; 1876, began the prac- 
tice of his profession in New York. He re- 
moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1887, where 
he resumed his professional labors. He in- 
vented an apparatus and process for conden.<*- 
ing steam by means of atmospheric vaporiza- 
tion. In July, 1903, the Atmospheric Con- 
densation Company was established, consist- 
ing of Arthur Pennell and M. F. Smith, 
which company will manufacture and supply 
the invention of Mr. Pennell all over the 
United States. Mr. Pennell in politics is a 
Mugwump, and agnostic in religious belief. 
Business address, 300 Heist building; resi- 
dence address, 1017 Paseo, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM E. GEORGIA. 

William E. Georgia. President and 
general manager of the Georgia-Stimson 
Furniture & Carpet Company. Born June 
29, 1865, in Elmira. N. Y. Son of Roswell 
S. and Phoebe J. Georgia. Educated in the 
public schools of Elmira, N. Y. Is a member 
of the Georgia-Stimson Furniture & Carpet 
Company, organized February i, 1903; in- 
corporated the same year, and was elected 
president. The incorporated company con- 
tains the following officials : W. E. Georgia, 
president; E. W. Stimson, vice-president; 
Charles F. Dietz, secretary; William A. 
Nicholson, treasurer. Mr. Georgia entered 



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the mercantile field as clerk in a dry goods 
house in Elmira, N. Y. ; then with Martin 
Orrison & Co., Kansas City, three years; 
then with J. Kennard & Sons, as buyer, for 
seven years ; then with the Lammert Furni- 
ture Company for five years ; then organized 
the Georgia-Stimson Furniture & Carpet 
Company. In two years their business has 
grown to a volume of over one-half million 
dollars annually. 

Mr. Georgia is a member of the Mercan- 
tile Club, and Missouri Athletic Club. In 
religion he is an Episcopalian, and affiliates 
with the Republican party. Married, Janu- 
ary 25, 1902, in St. Louis, j\Io., to Miss 
Alice C. Coleman. Business address 616- 
618 Washington avenue; residence address, 
3507 North Taylor street, St. Louis, 

Missouri. 

•-•-• 

THOMAS H. SPRINKLE. 

Thomas H. Sprinkle. Lawyer. Born 
January 23, 1862, in Charlotte, N. C. Son 
of William and Mary (Holton) Sprinkle. 
Educated in public and private schools of 
his native state, and the Carolina Military 
Institute in 1878. His paternal ancestors 
were Revolutionary soldiers, and his father 
was a soldier in the Confederate army under 
General Johnson. He studied law while em- 
ployed in the office of the general manager 
of the Richmond & Danville Railway Com- 
pany, now the Southern Railway Company, 
at Washington, D. C. Admitted to the bar 
December 18, 1893, by the Supreme Court 
of the District of Columbia; afterwards en- 
gaged in practice in North Carolina, at Char- 
lotte, April, 1895, and continued there until 
in March, 1901, when he located in St. Louis, 
Mo. From October, 1895, to March, 1901, 



was the agent and attorney at Charlotte, N. 
C, for the Fidelity & Deposit Company, of 
Baltimore, a surety bond company. For the 
past eight years has made surety bonds a 
specialty. He belongs to the Catholic Church, 
and is Democratic in politics, and was active 
in the interest of his party in North Caro- 
lina, where he formerly resided. 

Mr. Sprinkle was married, October 29, 
1895, to Miss Mary Donelson Reeve, at 
Washington, D. C. Children : Felicia, Mary 
and Wilhelmina Sprinkle. Business address, 
417 Security building, St. Louis, Mo.; resi- 
dence address, Ferguson, St. Louis county,. 
Missouri. 



JULIUS GLASER. 



Julius Glaser. Commission dry goods 
merchant. Born February 28, 1862, in Aus- 
tria, Europe. Son of Samuel and Catherine 
Glaser. Attended the public schools in St. 
Louis, Mo. He began his business career as 
a stock clerk with S. B. Merrill & Glaser, 
when he was sixteen years old, and continued 
in the same until he began business for him- 
self. December i, 1900, organized the firm 
of Julius Glaser & Co., succeeding the firm 
of Morris, Glaser & Co. Since 1875 has been 
a resident of St. Louis, Mo. He has been 
successful in distributing the manufactured 
dry goods specialties of the leading compa- 
nies and manufacturing concerns in the 
United States. He is the representative of 
some of the largest firms in the world, such 
as Linen Thread Company, J. B. Kleinert 
Rubber Company, Fletcher Manufacturing 
Company. He is but another instance of the 
large number of successful men who started 
in business without a dollar, who are now 
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possessing correct business principles. Mr. 
Glaser is a member of the Mercantile and 
Columbian clubs, of St. Louis, and Business 
Men's League. He is a believer in the 
Jewish religion, and Republican in politics. 
Married, June 20, 1900, in Cincinnati, Ohio. 
Business address, 414 North Eleventh street; 
residence address, West End Hotel, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



JOSEPH L. GRISWOLD. 

Joseph L. Griswold, born in Kentucky 
in the year 1843, ^o" o^ William D. and 
Maria (Lancaster) Griswold. He was rear- 
ed in Terre Haute, Indiana, and after at- 
tending the schools of that city was sent to 
Williston Seminary, of East Hampton, Mas- 
sachusetts, from which institution he was 
graduated in the class of 1861. When he left 
college he at once became connected with the 
St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute Railroad 
Company, now a part of the "Big Four" 
system, as an employe of that company. He 
soon developed into a capable railroad man, 
and was made paymaster for the Ohio & 
Mississippi Railroad Company. Later was 
promoted as superintendent of the Western 
Division of the Ohio & Mississippi railroad, 
extending from Vincennes, Indiana, to East 
St. Louis. So well pleased with his work 
were the board of directors, that they soon 
elected him general superintendent of the en- 
tire line a position which he held for four 
years. When he took the superintendency 
of the road, its gauge was six feet wide, and 
is was soon afterward determined to change 
this to a standard gauge, which was done in 
1 87 1, under his supervision. This was 



deemed at that time, a remarkable feat, and 
Mr. Griswold received the commendation of 
railroad men generally for the wonderful 
executive ability he displayed. Retiring later 
from the railroad service, he associated him- 
self with H. S. Clement and Charles Scudder, 
and leased the Lindell hotel, which, after be- 
ing refitted and refurnished, was thrown 
open to the public in 1874. In 1881 he sold 
his interest in this hotel, and became the 
owner of the Laclede Hotel property, in- 
cluding the real estate connected therewith. 
He has since been the owner and manager 
of this hotel. He is known as one of the 
leading business men and property owners 
of the city. He served, at one time, as a 
State Fish Commissioner, but, with this ex- 
ception, has held no public office. In 1875 
he married Miss Emily W. Adae, of Cincin- 
nati. Their only child is a daughter, Nellie 
Griswold. Business address, Laclede Hotel, 
St Louis, Missouri. 



ADOLPH E. MATHUDY. 

Adolph E. Mathudy. Lawyer. Born 
September 7, 1876, in St. Louis, Mo. Son 
of L. and Louise E. (Kehr) Methudy. His 
father was a colonel in the late Civil war in 
the Union army. He graduated in the public 
schools of St. Louis; Smith's Academy; 
Manual Training School of St. Louis ; St. 
Louis Law School, 1898, LL. B. ; three years 
scientific course at Washington University, 
St. Louis. After acquiring his legal education 
he engaged in the practice of law and has 
been actively engaged in the practice since. 
He is a member of the St. Louis Hamilton 
Club, Missouri Athletic Club, Union Club, 
Thirty-second degree Mason and Shriner, 



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and christened in the Lutheran faith. Is a 
Republican in politics, and active in the in- 
terests of his party. He is an ex-director in 
the St. Louis Republican Club; secretary of 
the Republican League Club of the Twelfth 
ward from 1902 to 1905; secretary of the 
Citizens" League Club from 1901 to 1905. 
Business address, 806 Wainwright building; 
residence address, 18 Waverly Place, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS WALTER FOSTER. 

Thomas Walter Foster, Physician and 
Surgeon. Born June 5, 1867, in Carthage, 
Mo. Son of William E. and Livino J. (Fos- 
let) Foster. Educated in the public schools, 
Clinton Academy, and Missouri Medi- 
cal College. He was reared on a farm, taught 
school, clerked in a drug store and engaged 
in the practice of his profession March 20, 
189 1, at Lewis, Mo. Removed to Butler, 
]\Io., in 1900, and has since practiced his pro- 
fession there. He is a member of the K. ot 
P., M. W. A., A. O. P. He is a Democrat 
in politics. Was married. May 25, 1892, in 
Clinton, Mo., to Mrs. Sullu G. Taylor. Chil- 
dren, \\'alter Taylor Foster. Business and 
residence address, Butler, Missouri. 



CHARLES EDWARD GARSTANG. 

Charles Edward Garstang. Architect. 
Born May 11, 1869, in Davenport, Iowa. 
Son of Thomas and Louise Garstang. Edu- 
cated in the public schools of Davenport, 
Iowa: Massachusetts Institute of Technol- 
ogy, Boston, Mass. He located, in 1900, in 



Joplin, ]\Io., where he took up his profession, 
and is a member of the architect firm of 
Garstang & Rea, composed of Charles E. 
Garstang and Alfred U. Rea, established in 
1900. They have designed the construction 
of many prominent public and business build- 
ings and private residence ; among them are 
the M. C. A., M. E. Church, Joplin, Mo. ; 
Carthage (Mo.) High School and Hospital 
buildings; eight opera houses in different 
sections of the country, and many business 
blocks and residences in Joplin and elsewhere. 
Mr. Garstang is a member of the Ma- 
sonic Order, and in religious belief he is a 
Methodist, and affiliates with the Republican 
party. Business address, 204 Graves' build- 
ing; residence address, 402 North Wall 
street, Joplin, Missouri. 



LON HAYNER. 



Lon Hayner. Cashier of the Citizens' 
Bank, of Macon, Mo. Born in 1846, in the 
state of Kentucky. Son of James M. and 
Margaret (Branham) Hayner. Attended 
the public schools of Macon county. His 
paternal grandfather, Thomas Landrum. was 
a Revolutionary soldier for seven years, and 
went with Arnold to Quebec. Both grand- 
fathers Hayner and Branham were in the 
war of 181 2. Branham was at the battle of 
Tippecanoe, and, under Col. R. M. Johnson, 
was present when Tecumseh was killed. 

Mr. Hayner located in Macon county. 
Mo., in 1855. He began his career as 
teacher in the public schools, then county 
collector, then into the banking business. He 
organized the Citizens' Bank, of Macon, Mo., 
in October. 1890, incorporated the same year, 
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named gentlemen compose the officials : R. 
S. Mathews, president ; R. W. Barnard, vice- 
president; Lon Hayner, cashier. Mr. Hay- 
ner was county collector in Macon county. 
Mo., from 1889 to 1893; six years member 
of the school board, and treasurer of the same 
from 1897 to 1903. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order and K. of P. ; also Bankers' 
Association, and Macon Social and Commer- 
cial Club. In religious belief Mr. Hayner 
is a Baptist, and has been moderator of the 
Baptist Association of the county for the last 
four years. He was married twice. First 
wife Miss Sue Jackson, February 26, 1880; 
second wife. Miss Emma Hockensmith, Oc- 
tober 21, 1891. Children: Gertrude, Anna 
E. and Susan E. Business and residence 
address, Macon, Missouri. 



WILLIAM L. AARON. 

William L. Aaron. Lawyer. Born April 
21, 1856, in Quincy, 111. Son of John and 
Remember (Hull) Aaron. Educated in the 
common schools of Pike county, 111. After 
a preparatory course attended Chaddock Col- 
lege, at Quincy, 111., 1876; finished Latin, 
scientific, at Northwestern University, at 
Bloomington, 111. ; graduated in the law de- 
partment of the University of Michigan, at 
Ann Arbor, in the class of 1S79, with degree 
of LL. D. 

Mr. Aaron was reared on a farm. After 
acquiring his legal education he began the 
practice in Quincy, 111. On account of ill 
health removed to Ellis county, Kans., where 
he followed his profession for ten years, then 
permanently located in Joplin, Mo., where he 
conducts a large individual and lucrative 



practice in his profession. Served as prose- 
cuting attorney from 1891 to 1895. Is a 
member of the Masonic Order; is a Presby- 
terian in religious belief, and Democratic in 
politics. He was married December 22, 
1884, in Carthage, 111., to Miss Alice G. 
Johnson. Children : Lawrence J., Ella M. 
and William L. Aaron, Jr. Business ad- 
dress, suite II, 420 Main street; residence 
address, 803 Byers street, Joplin, Missouri. 



SIGMUND GLASER. 

Sigmund Glaser, Importer of Laces and 
Embroideries. Born Oct. i, 1864, in Aus- 
tria. Son of Samuel and Katherine (Mau- 
rer) Glaser. Attended the public schools of 
St. Louis, Mo. Thirty years ago Sigmund 
Glaser came to St. Louis, Mo., from Austria, 
a poor boy with no stock in trade but pluck 
and an independent resolution to carve out 
an honorable career. He sought work and 
found it in the mercantile house of Rice, Stix 
& Co., as an office boy. It was but a short 
time, however, until he was found in another 
position, that would enable him not only to 
increase his salary, but prove his ability as a 
salesman. He obtained employment as a 
commercial traveler for Glaser Bros., in 1880 
and so successful was he that a partnership 
was formed afterwards with Adolph Glaser 
under the style of Glaser & Bro., which was 
continued up to 1901, when he began busi- 
ness for himself at 803 Washington Avenue, 
where he established the firm of Sigmund 
Glaser & Co., importers of laces and em- 
broideries, and one of the most complete im- 
porting houses in this particular line in the 
West. Mr. Glaser inherited those social and 
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as well as customers. He is a member of the 
Columbian Club, is an Israelite in religious 
belief and a Republican in politics. He was 
married Nov. 19, 1890, in St. Louis, Mo., to 
Miss Hattie Bach. Children, Clifford Glaser 
and Helen Glaser. Business address, 803 
Washington avenue; residence address, 4169 
Morgan street. 



CHARLES WILLIAM REAGAN. 

Charles William Reagan. Physician. 
Born June 30, 1856, in Audrian county, Mo. 
Son of William Axley and Agnes Eleanor 
(Reid) Reagan. Educated in the district 
schools of Audrian county, Mo. ; Mexico 
High School, 1873 to 1876; New Windsor 
College, New Windsor, Md., 1879 to 1882; 
Missouri State University, 1882 to 1884. 
Member of County, State and National Med- 
ical associations. Regular practitioner, and 
has practiced in Audrian and ]\Iacon counties 
for twenty-one years, except three years in 
St. Louis, Mo. He belongs to the Methodist 
Episcopal Church South, and is Democratic 
in politics. Was married February 21, 1886, 
in Bloomington, Mo., to Miss Maud Lou- 
dree. Children : Charles William, Jr., Cody 
Sylvester and Agnes Lucille Reagan. Busi- 
ness address, 106 Vine street, Macon, Mis- 
souri. 



OSCAR HERMANN. 

Oscar Hermann, ^^'holesale grocery 
merchant. Born August 29. 1872. in Jef- 
ferson City. Mo. Son of Felix and Eliza- 
beth (Stroebel) Hermann. Educated in the 
parochial school. St. Louis. Mo. He is a 
member of the Benj. W. Clark Grocery Co., 



composed of Warren L. Clark, president; 
Benj. W. Clark, vice-president; Oscar Her- 
mann, secretary, and established in 1869 
and on February i, 1901, was elected secre- 
tary of the above incorporated company of 
Benj. W. Clark Grocery Co. Previous to en- 
tering this business, May, 1886, to June, 
1889, worked for the Louis Lange Publish- 
ing Co.; August to October, 1889. assis- 
tant cashier at Wm. Barr Dry Goods Co. ; 
October 18, 1889, began with Clark & 
Stuyvesant Gro. Co., (predecessors of Benj. 
W. Clark Gro. Co.) as an office boy and 
worked up to the present position as secre- 
tary. In religious belief he is an Evangeli- 
cal Lutheran. In politics he is independent. 
Married April 20, 1898, in St. Louis, Mo., 
to Miss Ella Baare. Children, Ruth Ida 
Augusta, Arthur Frederick, Walter Emil 
Hermann. Business address, 307-309 N. 
Second street ; residence address, 3645 Cali- 
fornia avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ANDREW B. LITTLE. 

Andrew B. Little, Real Estate and In- 
surance Agent. Born July 23, 1867, in New 
Castle, Canada. Son of Robert and Sophia 
O. Little. Educated in the public schools 
of Moberly, Mo. Mr. Little came to Marion 
county, Mo., in 1869 and since he took up his 
residence in that city in 1874, he has been 
prominently identified with the business in- 
terests of that city. He is an extensive oper- 
ator in real estate and is thoroughly acquaint- 
ed with land values in Northwestern Mis- 
souri and besides this business he conducts 
a large profitable business in insurance, rep- 
resenting some of the best companies in the 
United States. He was elected Citv Clerk 



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of Moberly, Mo., January, 1904. Also served 
in city collector's ofifice up to 1902, when he 
engaged in the real estate and insurance bus- 
iness. He is a member of the Masonic order, 
including Knight Templars. In religious be- 
lief he is a Methodist, and affiliates with the 
Democratic party. Business address, 416 
Reed St., Moberly, Missouri. 



DANIEL EVANS. 



Daniel Evans. Building mechanic. Born 
September 28, 1849, ""^ Llanbrymaer, Mont- 
gomeryshire, Wales. Son of Richard J. and 
Catherine Evans. He obtained a meagre ed- 
ucation in the schools of his native town and 
supplemented this with such education as he 
could obtain in the night schools of St. Louis, 
after his going to that city in 1864. After 
coming to this country, their first home was 
at Johnstown, Pa., where they lived two 
years, at the end of which time they went to 
Racine, Wis., where he finished serving his 
apprenticeship to the carpenter's trade and 
began working as a journeyman. From Wis- 
consin he went to Emporia, Kans., remaining 
there until the fall of 1873, when he came to 
St. Louis, and for two years worked as a 
journeyman, then began building operations 
on his own account. Within a few years he 
became one of the popular builders of the 
city. He has been an important factor in 
controlling and directing the building affairs 
of St. Louis for many years. He was presi- 
dent of the Mechanics' Exchange during the 
year 1876, and was also first president of the 
Master Builders' Association of St. Louis. 
Is Republican in politics, and for many years 
he has been a Presbyterian churchman. In 
childhood he joined the W^elsh Calvanistic 



Methodist Church, but later became a mem- 
ber of the Welsh Presbyterian Church, then 
later became an English Presbyterian, and is 
now a communicant of the Lafayette Park 
Presbyterian Church in St. Louis, and a 
member of its board of trustees. Is a mem- 
ber of St. Louis Commandery of Knights 
Templar, of Moolah Temple, of Wildey 
Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- 
lows, and of Alpha Council of the Legion of 
Honor. 

Mr. Evans was married, in 1883, to Miss 
Jennie Jones, of St. Louis. 



MILLER WHITE HOVIS. 

Miller White Hovis, Accountant. Born 
May 15, 1873, in Gaston county. North Car- 
olina. Son of Jacob D. and Mary Adella 
(White) Hovis. Educated in the public 
schools in Vernon county. High School of 
Nevada, Mo., and Central Business College 
of Sedalia, Mo., 1894. His ancestors on the 
maternal side were Revolutionary soldiers. 
His mother traces her genealogy back to 
Captain John Smith. His father, Jacob D. 
Hovis, served in the Confederate Army from 
1862 to 1865 in Longstreet's Division of the 
Army of Virginia. Miller White was reared 
on a farm in North Carolina and Missouri, 
afterwards removed to Kansas City, Mo., se- 
curing employment as office-boy with a 
wholesale and retail coal company, remaining 
in their employ for ten years and a half, dur- 
ing which time he worked his way up to the 
position of secretary and treasurer of the 
company. He took up his permanent resi- 
dence in Joplin, Mo., May i, 1905, and be- 
came the agent of the following companies : 
The Consolidated Jack Mines Company, The 



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Cleveland-Chitwood Jack Mines Company, 
The Smith-Kernohan Company. 

He is independent in politics and in re- 
ligious belief he is a Presbyterian. Married 
Oct. 12, 1897, to Miss Grace Spendiff, at 
Ellis, Mo. Children, Paul Leslie and Ro- 
bert Eugene Hovis. Busineses address, Jop- 
lin, Missouri. 



JOHN CLARK HIGDON. 

John Clark Higdon. Lawyer and patent 
expert. Born January 7, i860, in Griggs- 
ville, Illinois. 

Mr. Higdon is a member of the well 
known firm of Higdon & Longan, patent law 
specialists. He comes of old Maryland stock 
on his father's side, Higdon being a family 
name that has been respected for many gen- 
erations in the state. His father was John 
Erasmus Higdon, while his mother, before 
marriage, was Sarah Baldwin, of Litchfield, 
Conn. The Baldwins had ancestors in the 
Mayflower colony. Many of the name are 
distinguished in the state of Connecticut. 
When Mr. Higdon was six years old his par- 
ents located in Kansas City, and it was there 
he received his common school education. 
As soon as he was old enough he went to 
work in a machine shop, of which his father 
■was proprietor, and it was there he acquired 
a practical insight into the meclianism of 
tools, engines, boilers and all kinds of 
machinery, a knowledge that has been inval- 
uable to the firm in the intricacies of all 
kinds of patents. After serving a number of 
years he took up the study of law in the 
offices of several noted jurists. He took a 
course in Latin, physics and chemistry at 
William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo. He 



was educated both as lawyer and engineer, 
a fine combination of accomplishments in a 
patent lawyer. Has title of M. E., and is 
an associate member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers ; also member 
of American Physical Society, American 
Chemical Society, American Society for the 
Advancement of Science. Is a 32d degree 
Mason, member of St. Louis Mercantile 
Club, director of St. Louis Automobile Club, 
is n (christian Scientist, is a Republican in 
politics and, although was nominated for 
Congress from his district in St. Louis in 
1892, he declined in favor of Hon. Charles 
F. Joy, who was elected. He founded the 
firm of Higdon & Longan, of St. Louis, in 
1889, the same being the largest patent law 
firm west of Chicago. The firm is composed 
of John C. Higdon and Edward Everett 
Longan, and they have been co-partners for 
sixteen continuous years. 

Mr. Higdon was married in March, 
1888, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Eu- 
nice Garretson. Children : John Garret- 
son, Henry Longan and Eunice Louisa Hig- 
don. Business address, suite 605 Missouri 
Trust building; residence address, 5561 Von 
Versen avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS B. ESTEP. 

Thomas B. Estep. Lawyer. Prominent 
among the legal profession of the St. Louis 
bar is the name of Thomas B. Estep, who has 
practiced his profession since 1872. Born 
January 6, 1851, in Harrison county, Ohio, 
a son of Andrew and Sarah (Henderson) 
Estep. Educated in the public schools, and 
was a student at Franklin College, New 
Athens, Ohio, 1868 to 1871, graduating the 



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latter year. He read law in Cadiz, Ohio. 
Admitted to the bar in Columbus, Ohio, in 
1872. Began practice in the city of St. 
Louis in 1872. As a general practitioner and 
counselor he has been highly successful. In 
political matters he ai^liates with the Dem- 
ocratic party, and from 1891 to 1895 was 
assistant prosecuting attorney of St. Louis, 
devoting a large part of his time to criminal 
cases. A member of the Jefferson Club, the 
Missouri Athletic Association, Legion of 
Honor. He is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church of St. Louis. Was mar- 
ried in 1903 to Miss Estella Ellard. Two 
children have been born, William A. and 
Mary Grace Estep. Business address, 610 
Wainwright building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ness address, 413 Benoist building, St. Louis, 
Mo. ; residence address. Lackland avenue, St. 
Louis county. 



CHARLES EDWIN HAMILTON. 

Charles Edwin Hamilton. Contractor. 
Born August 28, 1868, in Nova Scotia. Son 
of Josiah and Esther A. (Skinner) Hamil- 
ton. Educated in the public schools of Nova 
Scotia. After he acquired his education he 
worked as a carpenter in the city of Boston ; 
studied general architecture ; advanced to the 
position of foreman while working for Nor- 
cross Bros., of Worcester, Mass; was super- 
intendent of construction for a number of 
contractors before engaging in business for 
himself. 

Mr. Hamilton came to St. Louis, Mo., in 
1892, and since that time has been conduct- 
ing an extensive business as a general con- 
tractor. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., 
and Independent Order of Foresters. In re- 
ligion he is a Protestant. In politics he is a 
Republican. Married June i, 1899, in St. 
Louis, Mo., to Miss Mabel E. Jones. Busi- 



HENRY DELANCY ASHLEY. 

Henry Delancy Ashley. Lawyer. Born 
September 10, 1856, in Syracuse, N. Y. 
Son of Rev. William Bliss and Anne (Bald- 
win) Ashley. Graduated from Racine 
College, Wisconsin, 1876, with degree of 
B. A. and M. A. ; also having taken a post- 
graduate course of one year at Kings Col- 
lege, London. His father was rector of St. 
Paul's Church, Milwaukee, for about thirty 
years. 

Mr. Ashley began the practice of law in 
the latter city, and through the invitation of 
Wallace Pratt, in 1880 removed to Kansas 
City, Mo., and remained in the office of 
Pratt, Brumbach & Perry for two years be- 
fore engaging in practice for himself. He 
has succeeded in building up a large and 
lucrative practice in the State and Federal 
courts, and is now senior member of the 
legal firm of Ashley, Gilbert & Dunn. Epis- 
copalian in religious belief, and is junior 
warden of Grace Church in Kansas City, 
Mo. He was twice delegate to the general 
convention of the Episcopal Church. He is 
member of the University Club, Country 
Club, Commercial Club, and Civic League, 
and has been president of the Kansas City 
(Mo.) Bar Association. Has recently been 
appointed by the Supreme Court of Missouri, 
member of a board of law examiners, com- 
posed of five lawyers, who, under a law re- 
cently passed, are alone allowed to admit 
lawyers to the bar in Missouri. 

Mr. Ashley was married, August i. 



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1896, in Schuyler county, N. Y., to Miss 
Caroline Schuyler Mann. They have two 
children, a son, Schuyler, aged eight years, 
and daughter, Anne Ashley, five years. 
Business address, Massachusetts building; 
residence address, 25 East Forty-fifth street, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



DANIEL MALOTT HOUSER. 



Mr. Houser's family located in Clark 
county, Mo., in 1839, from the state of 
Maryland, and removed to St. Louis in 1846. 
He was married to Miss Margaret Ingram, 
November 25, 1862. After the death of his 
wife he married Miss Agnes Barlow. Chil- 
dren : jMrs. William T. Aderton, St. Louis, 
Mo.; Malott E., Douglas and Duncan 
Houser. Business address, Glohc-Dcmocrat 
building ; residence address, 4545 West Pine 
Boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



Daniel IMalott Houser. President of the 
Globe Printing Company, publishers of the 
Globc-Dcinocraf. Born December 23, 1834, 
in Washington county, Md. Son of Elias 
and Eliza (Malott) Houser. Educated in 
the public schools of Missouri, private acad- 
emy and Jones Commercial College, of St. 
Louis, Mo. 

Mr. Houser is president of the Globe 
Printing Company ; stockholder in the Na- 
tional Bank of Commerce, Third National 
Bank, Mechanics' American National Bank, 
Mississippi Valley Trust Company ; director 
and stockholder of the St. Louis Union Trust 
Company and American Central Insurance 
Company. He began his career at the age of 
sixteen as a clerk and worked through all 
the departments in the office up to the execu- 
tive management. He is a member of the 
St. Louis Club, Mercantile Club, Field Club, 
Union Club, and Country Club. The family 
of Mr. Houser are MethodLst and Episcopal 
in religious belief. Mr. Houser was a Re- 
publican delegate at large and chairman of 
delegation for Missouri, in the Philadelphia 
convention, 1900. Elected elector at large 
for Missouri, on the Republican ticket, in 
1904. The Globe-Democrat newspaper, of 
which he is president, was established in 
1852, incorporated in 1875. 



VIRGIL M. HARRIS. 

Virgil M. Harris. Trust officer of the 
Mercantile Trust Company. Born January 
20, 1862, in Columbia, Mo. Son of John W. 
and Anne (McClure) Harris. Educated in 
the Kemper Family School, Boonville, 
Mo. ; University of Missouri ; University of 
Virginia, Charlottsville, Va. His father was 
a banker and the owner of "Model Farm," 
of Missouri, located in Boone county. Mo. 
Mr. Harris is a descendant of a Kentucky 
family. He located in St. Louis, Mo., in 
1 88 1, and practiced law for twenty years, 
then was made trust officer of the Mercantile 
Trust Company. He was the youngest 
lawyer ever admitted to the Supreme and 
Appellate courts of Missouri. He has been a 
contributor to magazines and newspapers, 
and has written a very able address on 
"Trust Companies," which has received 
favorable comment, the same being copied 
in all the banking journals of the country. 
He is known as an author and writer also; 
has never cared for politics; has been suc- 
cessful in his profession, and at the head of 
the best trust department in the west. He 
established the trust department of his com- 



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pany December i, 1901, which already has 
charge of trust assets amounting to more 
than $50,000,000. 

Mr. Harris was married, December 10, 
1884, in Champaign, 111., to Miss Isabelle 
McKindley. Business address, Locust and 
Eighth street; residence address, Bucking- 
am Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES W. HOLTCAMP. 

Charles W. Holtcamp. Lawyer. Among 
the prominent and successful lawyers of the 
St. Louis bar is the name of Charles W. 
Holtcamp, who for many years has practiced 
his profession in St. Louis and is recognized 
as an able lawyer whose attainments have 
elevated him to an enviable position among 
the members of the legal profession, and he 
has built up a large and lucrative practice in 
corporation, commercial and probate law, 
and although devoted to his profession, he 
has been a representative business man in 
various notable enterprises in the state and 
elsewhere. 

The subject of this sketch was born Sep- 
tember I, 1859, in Decatur, 111. Educated 
in the public schools; Illinois College, 1878- 
1880; law department Washington Univer- 
sity, 1880-1882. His military record began 
first as a member of the National Guard of 
Illinois, his native state, from 1877 to 1880; 
member of National Guard of Missouri 
from 1883 to 1904; resigned as lieutenant 
colonel of First Regiment of Missouri ; 
served as senior captain of First Missouri 
Volunteer Infantry during war with Spain. 
Mr. Holtcamp's legal career dates from 1882, 
when he was admitted to the bar, and has 
continued in the practice ever since. His 



talents have been lent in many ways outside 
of his profession. Public spirited and aggres- 
sive in all that pertains to the advancement 
and prosperity of the city he resides in, he 
has been very prominent in aiding many 
worthy enterprises. He was member of the 
Municipal Assembly of the city of St. Louis 
during 1 899-1 901. He is a director in, and 
attorney for, the Blanke Bro. Realty Com- 
pany, and stockholder and attorney in the 
Blanke-Wenneker Candy Company, and 
director and attorney in the Blackwell Oil 
Company, of Blackwell, Okla., and president 
of the Camden Water, Light & Power Com- 
pany, of Camden, Ark. He is a member of 
the Military Order of Foreign Wars of the 
United States; Spanish- American War vet- 
eran; is a thirty-second degree Mason; 
Shriner ; Knight Templar ; Elk, and a mem- 
ber of the Missouri Athletic Club. He has 
been identified with the Republican party all 
his life, and takes an active interest in all of 
the leading campaigns in Missouri. He is 
married and has one daughter; is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Busi- 
ness address, 617-622 Roe building; resi- 
dence. No. 10 Parkland Place, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JOHN R. HALES. 



John R. Hales. Lawyer. Born July 17, 
1855. Son of John and Jane (Moody) 
Hales. Educated in the public schools of 
Iowa; State Normal School at Kirksville, 
Mo. ; State University of Iowa, with degree 
of LL. B. Four uncles on his mother's side 
were in the Union army in the late Civil war. 
He began his career as a farmer, taught 
school, then engaged in the mercantile busi- 
ness. After acquiring his legal education he 



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was admitted to the bar in 1888. Since then 
has been engaged in the general practice, 
and is now a member of the law firm of Tem- 
pleton & Hales, composed of John R. Hales 
and George Templeton, established in 1889. 
He is a member of the order of Elks, and K. 
of P. He is a Methodist in religious belief. 
Mrs. Hattie Hales, his wife, worships at the 
Christian Church. In politics Mr. Hales 
afifiliates with the Republican party. Has 
been a candidate for prosecuting attorney in 
the county of Bates. Candidate for both 
branches of the State Legislature on the 
Republican ticket. He was city attorney for 
Rich Hill, Mo., since 1889, with the excep- 
tion of about four years. Delegate from the 
Sixth Congressional district to the Republi- 
can National Convention in 1904, at Chi- 
cago, 111. 

Mr. Hales was married October 9, 1899, 
in Vernon county. Mo., to Miss Hattie Reed. 
Business and residence address. Rich Hill, 
Missouri. 



EDWARD FENINGTON HALL. 

Edward Fenington Hall. Manager of 
the Herring-Hall-Marvin Safe Company. 
Born June 3, 1851, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Son 
of Edward K. and Elmira (Fenington) 
Hall. He was educated in the public schools 
and high schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, gradu- 
ating in 1864; Mechanics' Institute at Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, from 1866 to 1868. 

Mr. Hall has had many years' experience 
in the safe business, being familiar with all of 
its separate, complicated branches. He be- 
gan in the business as a mechanical expert, 
office salesman, and manager. The Hall Safe 
& Lock Company was incorporated in 1885, 
and was succeeded by Herring-Hall Marvin 



Safe Company, incorporated in 1900. In 
religious belief he is a Presbyterian, and a 
Republican in politics. He was married, Oc- 
tober 13, 1879, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Miss 
Lucy G. Davis. One daughter has been 
born. Business address, 706-70S Washing- 
ton avenue; residence address, 4284 Page 
boulevard. 



SAMUEL S. DUNHAM. 

Samuel S. Dunham. Lawyer. Born 
April 14, 1867, in Macon county, 'Slo. Son 
of James and Nannie (Hughes) Dunham. 
As a boy he attended the country school at 
such times as his father could spare him from 
labor on the farm until 1886, when he had 
acquired sufficient education to begin teach- 
ing school. From that time he taught and 
went to school alternately until he finished 
the normal course at Kirksville, Mo., when m 
1890 he was elected superintendent of the 
public school of Bevier, Mo., which position 
he held for six years. While teaching at 
Bevier he was married to Miss Fannie Wal- 
ker, of Anabel, Mo. He entered the Uni- 
versity of Missouri in 1896, from which he 
graduated with the degree of LL. B. in 
1898, and moved to Macon, Mo., and began 
the practice of law. He was elected prose- 
cuting attorney of Macon county. Mo., in 
1904, and is the present incumbent of that 
office. 

Mr. Dunham has attained considerable 
success as a lawyer since the beginning of 
his practice, and he may be considered as a 
strictly self-made man. He belongs to the 
Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In poli- 
tics he is a believer in Democratic principles. 
and active in the interest of his party. His 
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Aileen, Lindon Walker and Loyd Thomp- 
son Dunham. Business address, Macon, 
Missouri. 



THOMAS B. HARLAN. 

Thomas B. Harlan. Lawyer. The 
name of Thomas B. Harlan is conspicuous 
and prominent in the St. Louis bar, and he 
was born April 15, 1868, in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
He is the son of Thomas Jefferson and 
Zelpha (Bartlett) Harlan. He acquired his 
education in the public schools at Louisiana, 
Park county, Mo., until eighteen years of 
age, then attended the Missouri State Uni- 
versity for two years, and subsequently at- 
tended St. Louis Law School, graduating in 
June, 1893. Since his admission to the bar 
he has practiced his profession in St. Louis, 
Mo., and has built up a large and lucrative 
practice. He has been a life long Republican 
and active in the interests of his party. He is 
a member of the Blackstone Society and 
Mercantile Club, of St. Louis. 

Mr. Harlan was married, November 23, 
1893, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Lena L. 
Carroll. Two children have been born, Car- 
roll and Irene Harlan. Business address, 
700 Carleton building; residence address, 
5052 Kensington avefiue, St. Louis, Mis- 
souri. 



JAMES L. HOPKINS. 

James L. Hopkins. Lawyer. Born in 
St. Louis in 1868. Son of Christian R. and 
Anna (Love) Hopkins. He obtained his 
education in the common schools of St. 
Louis, at Washington University, and re- 



ceived his degree of LL. B. from the law 
department of that institution. Was admit- 
ted to practice in St. Louis, in the Missouri 
courts, October 7, 1889, and to the United 
States Supreme Court, November 9, 1894. 
In fraternal circles Mr. Hopkins is recog- 
nized as a brother by the Masons and 
Knights of Pythias, being a member of Mis- 
souri Lodge No. I, in the former order, and 
of Golden Crown Lodge, in the latter, of 
which he is past chancellor. He is the 
author of "Hopkins on Unfair Trade;" has 
contributed numerous articles to both the 
Central Lazv Journal and the Encyclopedia of 
Plead in (T and Practice, and has written a 
number of essays on medico-legal matters. 
Mr. Hopkins was married, in 1892, to 
Miss Georgien Shields. They have one 
child. Business address, 400 Columbia build- 
ing, St. Louis, Missouri. , 



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JAMES HAGERMAN. 

James Hagerman. Lawyer. Born in 
Jackson township, Clark county. Mo., No- 
vember 26, 1848. Son of Benjamin F. and 
Ann (Cowgill) Hagerman. He obtained his 
early education at Alexandria, Mo., which 
was supplemented by a course of study at the 
Christian Brothers' College, of St. Louis, 
and completed at Professor Jamenson's 
Latin School, of Keokuk, Iowa. After leav- 
ing school he entered the law office of Rankin 
& McCrary, of Keokuk, one of the most 
widely known law firms of the west. He 
completed his course of study and was ready 
for admission to the bar before he attained 
his majority, and under the laws of Iowa his 
youth was a bar to his admission to practice, 
so he returned to Missouri, passed his exami- 



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nation and was admitted to the bar by Judge 
Wagner, of the Supreme Court of that state 
in 1866. Going back to Keokuk, he con- 
tinued in the office of Rankin & McCrarj- 
until 1869, in which year, with H. P. Lips- 
comb as his partner, he opened a law office of 
his own at Palmyra, Mo. After remaining 
there one year, he returned to Keokuk, and in 
1875 formed a partnership with his old pre- 
ceptor. Judge McCrary, under the firm name 
of ^McCrary, Hagerman & McCrary. This 
firm continued until 1879, when Judge Mc- 
Crary resigned to another office, and his place 
was tilled by Frank Hagerman, the firm then 
became Hagerman, McCrary & Hagerman. 
Mr. Hagerman continued to practice as the 
head of this firm until 1884, when he accepted 
the general attorneyship of the Atchison, 
Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad Company, 
which caused his removal to Topeka, Kans., 
where he again became associated with Judge 
McCrary. In 1886 Mr. Hagerman removed 
to Kansas City, Mo., and became a member 
of the firm of Warner, Dean & Hagerman, 
and in 1888 he became general counsel for 
the receivers of the J^Iissouri, Kansas & 
Texas Railway. Here he discharged the 
duties of this position in connection with his 
general practice until 1891, in which year 
he was appointed general solicitor of the Mis- 
souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad Company, 
at its reorganization, and is now the 
general counsel of that railroad sys- 
tem. In 1893 ^''^ removed to St. 
Louis, and has since been a member of the 
bar of that city. Politically he has always 
been identified with the Democratic party, 
and since 1868 he has taken part in every 
national campaign. In 1879 1''^ presided 
over the Iowa State Democratic Convention. 
In 1880 he was a delegate from Iowa to the 
National Democratic Convention, and in 



1888 presided over the Missouri Democratic 
State Convention. 

October 6. 1871, Mr. Hagerman married 
Miss Margaret M. Walker, of Palmyra, Mo. 
Their children are Lee W. and James Hager- 
man, both of whom have adopted the law as 
their profession. Business address, 606 
Wainwright building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



AUGUST C. MICHAELIS. 

August C. ^Michaelis. Architect. Born 
July 3, 1863, in Palmyra, Mo. Son of 
August and Johanna (Reinneca) Michaelis. 
Educated in the public schools of Missouri. 
Served as an apprentice in a cabinet shop 
until the age of twenty, afterwards engaged 
in building and contracting, which he fol- 
lowed for ten years, when he assumed the 
vocation of an architect and to this profes- 
sion he has devoted nearly all of his entire 
time. He constructed and designed the fol- 
lowing buildings : Joplin high school, 1896; 
Clarkton Hotel, 1897; Presbyterian church, 
Joplin, 1898; Carnegie Library, Joplin, 
1902; Miner's Bank building, Joplin, 1904. 
He is president of the Empire Oil Company, 
incorporated in 1905, and was the original 
organizer of the same. Established same 
year, composed of August C. Michaelis, pres- 
ident; H. L. Chickering, vice-president; Dr. 
W. B. Cline, secretar)% and E. G. Wear, 
treasurer. Manufacturing brick, glass, gas 
and oil. 

Since taking up his permanent residence 
in Joplin, Mo., in 1890, Mr. Michaelis has 
continued in his profession up to the present 
time. In politics he is independent. In re- 
ligious belief he is Presbyterian. He was 
married Sept. 2y, 1887, in Clinton, Mo., to 




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Miss Viola Kee. Children : Hester Jay and 
Ralph William Michaelis. Business address, 
Miners' Block building, Joplin, Mo. ; resi- 
dence address, 521 Wall street. 



WILLIAM HENRY MAYO. 

William Henry Mayo. Masonic Grand 
Secretary. Born July 16, 1843, in Saint 
Landry Parish, La. Son of William and 
Eliza (Smith) Mayo. Received a common 
school education in Louisiana prior to i860. 
His grandfather Smith was a Revolutionary 
soldier. 

Mr. Mayo removed to St. Louis, Mo., 
in March, 187 1, where he soon engaged in 
business as a traveling agent and correspond- 
ent for the Daily Times, afterwards manager 
of the subscription and mailing department 
until 1875, then associated with George 
Frank Gouley in the publication of the Free 
Mason, a monthly magazine of large circula- 
tion and influence, until his tragic death at 
the burning of the Southern Hotel, April 
II, 1877, then succeeded him as Masonic 
Grand Secretary of three of the Masonic 
Grand bodies. His half tones and biograph- 
ical sketches have been published in many 
Masonic magazines and large daily papers, 
printed proceedings of the Forty-ninth An- 
nual Convocation of the Grand Chapter of 
Royal Arch Masons, of Missouri, pages 259 
and 260, and printed proceedings of the Gen- 
eral Grand Council of Royal and Select 
Masters of the United States of America. 
Mr. Mayo is an old school Southern Demo- 
crat. Was in the Civil war from beginning 
to close and wounded several times. Rose 
from the ranks to be adjutant of the Eighth 
Louisiana Regiment, C. S. A. Was success- 

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ful in business pursuits in Louisiana. After 
the Civil war merchandising. He was mayor 
of the town of Wasliington, La., one term, 
but not satisfied with the civil and political 
conditions of carpet bag rules in that por- 
tion of the south, he at once changed his 
residence to St. Louis, Mo., where he has 
resided ever since. Was ten years secretary 
of the Democratic State Committee of Mis- 
souri, and secretary of the State Senate two 
terms. He is a member and past officer of 
all branches of legitimate Free Masonry. 
Member of the Missouri Athletic Club, and 
belongs to the Ethical Society. 

Mr. Mayo was married, August 16, 1866, 
in Opelousas, St. Landry parish. La., to Miss 
Ella Agatha Curley. Children : Harry Na- 
thaniel Mayo, M. D., Mrs. Etha Mayo Story 
and Mrs. Hazel Mayo Ewald. Business ad- 
dress. Odd Fellows' building; residence ad- 
dress, 3509 Lafayette avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JOHN ELBERT DOLMAN. 

John Elbert Dolman. Lawyer. Born 
September 18, 1865, in Denver, Colo. Son 
of Samuel and Marinda K. (Jordan) Dol- 
man. Educated in the public schools, grad- 
uating from the high school, Topeka, Kans., 
in 1884; also from Albany Law School, Al- 
bany, N. Y., in 1887. Admitted to the bar 
in March, 1886. Began practice in Topeka, 
Kans., June 20, 1887, and continued in the 
general practice until January i, 1888, when 
he entered the legal department of the Chi- 
cago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Com- 
pany, at Topeka, Kans., as assistant attorney, 
and continued with that company until he 
engaged in the general practice at St. Joseph, 
Mo., January i, 1898. He is a member of 



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the legal firm of Brown & Dolman, composed 
of Stephen S. Brown and John E. Dolman, 
established January i, 1898. The firm con- 
ducts a large and lucrative business, princi- 
pally corporation law. Mr. Dolman is a 
member of the Masonic Order, Benton Club, 
Commercial Club, Lotus Club, St. Joseph, 
Mo. Is a director in the Union Terminal 
Railway Company, and one of the organizers 
of that corporation. He is a Methodist in 
religious belief, and afiiliates with the Re- 
publican party. 

Mr. Dolman was married, in St. Joseph, 
Mo., to Miss Annie Hickman. One child, 
John Elbert Dolman, Jr. Business address. 
National Bank of St. Joseph building; resi- 
dence address, 524 North Ninth street, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



AMOS H. CAFFEE. 

Amos H. Caffee. President of the Cen- 
tral National Bank. Born October 18, 
1834, in Newark, Ohio. Educated in the 
public schools ; Medical College at Cincin- 
nati, Ohio, with the degree of M. D. After 
graduating in medicine he began his career 
as a druggist and practicing physician. He 
located in Jasper county, Mo., in 1857, and 
has been connected with several important 
business enterprises. He was elected presi- 
dent of the following incorporated compa- 
nies: Central National Bank, Carthage, 
Mo., 1890; Cafifee Drug Company. l8g8; 
Carthage Building Stone Company, 1902. 
He is a member of the Masonic Order ; Epis- 
copal in religious belief, and afiiliates with 
the Republican party. Served in the Civil 
war as surgeon, Thirteenth Kansas Volun- 
teer Infantry. Was treasurer of Jasper 



county. Mo. ; mayor of Carthage, ;\Io., from 
1880 to 1881. 

Mr. Caffee was married. May 21, 1867, 
in Carthage, ^lo., to Miss Lacie A. Bur- 
ham. Children: Edna E., Jessie C, Flora, 
Amos H. and Lacie B. Caffee. Business ad- 
dress, Carthage, Mo.; residence address, 315 
West Third street. 



WILLIAM FRED ENGLEHART. 

William Fred Englehart. Osteopathic 
physician. Born August 22, 1866, in Lee 
county, Iowa. Son of Fred W. and Mary 
Jane (Reesman) Englehart. Educated in 
the public school at Kirksville; State Normal 
School ; American Scliool of Osteopathy, 
degree Doctor of Osteopathy, 1903. 

Dr. Englehart is a native of the State of 
Iowa. He came to Missouri in 1872, and 
previous to engaging in his profession, was a 
teacher two years ; engaged in real estate and 
insurance business; collector of revenue of 
Adair county. Mo., four years; 1903 began 
his career in the practice of osteopathy in St. 
Louis, Mo. It was during his residence at 
Kirksville, the county seat of Adair county, 
that the subject of this sketch first met Dr. 
A. T. Still, and became acquainted with the 
science of osteopathy and the splendid proofs 
of his practice. He was interested and de- 
cided to- enter the American School of Oste- 
opathy, from which he was graduated with 
honor. He practiced for a time in Oregon, 
Mo., with success, but the field became too 
small to satisfy his ambition, and he removed 
to St. Louis. He is a member of the Masonic 
Order, K. of P., Modern Brotherhood of 
America. Brotherhood of American Yeoman, 
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Osteopathy Association, Missouri Osteopa- 
thy Association ; of the latter lie is tlie first 
vice-president. In rehgious beHef he is a 
Christian ; in politics a Republican. 

Mr. Englehart was married, May 14, 
1895, in Kirksville, Mo., to Mrs. Fannie D. 
Shackleford. Children : Susie Vo, Leon VV. ; 
step-daughter, Clarice V. Shackleford. Busi- 
ness address, 910 Missouri Trust building; 
residence address, 5066 Fairmount avenue, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



MORRIS SKRAINKA. 

Morris Skrainka. General contractor. 
Born in August, 1858, in St. Louis, Mo. 
Son of Joseph and Katharine (Schmidlin- 
ger) Skrainka. Educated in the St. Louis 
High School. Began his business career, 
first as a clerk, then superintendent, then 
owner. The Skrainka firm is numbered 
among the most prominent contractors for 
city work, especially for street construction. 
They laid the foundation for the new water 
works, built the bridge at Twenty-first street, 
made the pavement of Union station, and are 
constantly engaged in the execution of im- 
portant contracts for public and private ac- 
count, giving employment to hundreds of 
workmen and laborers. They are owners of 
limestone quarries within the city limits, and 
operate their extensive granite works at 
Knob Lick, Mo. The faithful performance 
of all work entrusted to them, the strict in- 
tegrity in all their dealings has won for the 
firm an enviable reputation and the confi- 
dence of all whom they have dealt with. They 
are active, energetic business men of great 
ability, possess ample means, have an excel- 
lent standing in the community and take an 



active interest in all public affairs. He is 
secretary and treasurer of the Skrainka Con- 
struction Company, and Atlantic Quarry 
Company. Both incorporated; director in 
the new Union Sand Company and Mound 
City Roofing Tile Company. He is a mem- 
ber of the Columbian Club, St. Louis, Mo., 
and is independent in politics. 

Mr. Skrainka was married October 18, 
1894, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Blanche 
Scharff. Children: Walter J. and Ralph 
Nicholas Skrainka. Business address, 806 
Security building; residence address, 4235 
Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN HOMER BOTHWELL. 

John Homer Bothwell. Lawyer, and 
president of the Sedalia National Bank, and 
president of the West St. Louis (Mo. Water 
& Light Company. Born November 20, 
1848, in Clay county. 111. Son of James K. 
and Mary Ann (Brissenden) Bothwell. Ed- 
ucated in the public .schools at Clay City, 111. ; 
Indiana State University, Bloomington, 
Ind., class of 1869; Union University Law 
School, at Albany, N. Y., class of 1871. 
Mr. Bothwell located in Sedalia, Mo., No- 
vember I, 1 87 1. He was reared on a farm 
and spent his boyhood days there, at which 
time he was also a clerk in a general store in 
several village towns. He is president and 
director of the Sedalia National Bank, West 
St. Louis (Mo.) Water and Light Com- 
pany, 1892, 1893 and 1894; was chairman of 
the Republican State Central Committee, and 
is now vice chairman. Was delegate at large 
to the Republican National Convention in 
1896; served in the Legislature, and was a 
member of the Thirty-fifth, Thirty-eighth, 



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Fortieth and Forty-first General Assembly 
of Missouri. 

Mr. Bothwell was married October 22, 
1884, in Sedalia, Mo., to Miss Hattie E. 
Jaynes (now deceased). Business address, 
300 Ohio street ; residence address, 210 West 
Seventh street, Sedalia, Missouri. 



PAUL BROWN. 



Paul Brown. Tobacco manufacturer. 
Born in Eldorado, Ark., August 20, 1848. 
Son of Warner and Martha A. Brown, na- 
tives of Virginia. His father was a well 
known citizen of Eldorado, Ark., and a 
prominent member of the ]\Iethodist Church, 
and was noted for his many benevolences. 

Paul Brown came with his widowed 
mother to Missouri in 1854. He was reared 
on the farm near Wright City, in Warren 
county. His preliminary education was ac- 
quired in the district schools and Warrenton 
College until he reached the age of seventeen, 
when he began work in a tobacco factory. 
When eighteen years of age he began selling 
tobacco from a wagon, known in those days 
as peddling tobacco. His health failing at 
the age of twenty, he returned to the farm, 
afterwards engaging in the mercantile busi- 
ness at Wantzville, Mo. In 1874 he en- 
gaged in the tobacco business as a member 
of the firm of Lacy & Brown, and he has 
continued in the tobacco business up to the 
present time. By the manufacture of the 
"Standard Navy," and other famous brands 
of chewing tobacco, his business increased 
to great proportions. When the Continental 
Tobacco Company was formed in 1898, the 
plant of the Brown Tobacco Company be- 
came one of the most coveted ones. The 



business of this company was disposed of to 
J. B. Duke, president of the American To- 
bacco Company. Since the sale Mr. Brown 
has continued as managing director for the 
American Tobacco Company, in charge of 
the St. Louis branch. He was an active sup- 
porter of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 
was one of its directors, and was chairman of 
the committee of agriculture. He is a 
director of the Continental Tobacco Com- 
pany ; director of the Mercantile Trust Com- 
pany, and a member of the executive commit- 
tee of the same; a director of the American 
Exchange Bank, and a member of the St. 
Louis Club, and Noonday Club, and St. 
Johns Methodist Church. He is a large 
owner of real estate in Missouri, including 
many valuable properties in St. Louis. Mr. 
Brown is a public spirited citizen, and has 
aided many worthy enterprises in his home 
city. 

Mr. Brown has been twice married, and 
has five children by the first marriage, and 
one by the second ; four girls and two boys. 



JOSEPH MATHER. 

Joseph Mather. Physician and surgeon. 
Born April 16, 1868, in Essex county, Can- 
ada, province of Ontario. Son of Ralph and 
Maggie (Moffatt) Mather. Educated in the 
public schools of Canada, and medical 
school (Hahnemann's) and Osteopathic 
College, of Kansas City, Mo., graduating in 
1 901. 

Dr. Mather began his career in the cloth- 
ing business, which he abandoned for the 
medical profession, but after having received 
the degree of M. D., he took up the practice 
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up a large and lucrative practice. He is a 
member of the I. O. O. F., M. U. A. and 
M. P. L. He is of the Hahnemann school of 
practice; member of the Missouri Medical 
Society, and also conducts a private hospital 
and sanitarium for the treatment of the sick. 
In politics he is a Democrat, and is now sec- 
retary of the Jackson County Bank, Inde- 
pendence, Mo. Business address, mo West 
Walnut street; residence address. Independ- 
ence, Missouri. 



Mr. Clear was married January 6, 1897. 
Business address, 306 Temple block; resi- 
dence address, 2546 Park street, Kansas 

City, Missouri. 



PHILIP D. CLEAR. 

Philip D. Clear. Lawyer. Born June 
10, 1867, in Defiance, Ohio. Son of Zadoc 
and Maria (Badenhop) Clear. One of the 
paternal ancestors of Philip D. was a sur- 
geon in the Revolutionary war. 

Philip D. acquired his education in the 
public, high and graded schools of Ohio and 
Iowa. He entered the Northern Illinois Col- 
lege, graduating with highest honors, receiv- 
ing degree of A. B. Afterward entered the 
law department of the same institution, 
March i, 1893. Removed to Kansas City, 
Mo., and admitted to the practice. From the 
beginning he has steadily built up a large and 
lucrative practice, and is known as an able 
advocate and a successful practitioner in the 
Nisi Prius Court. He has won distinction 
in many heavy and important damage suits. 
Has established an enviable reputation as a 
criminal lawyer, where his most conspicuous 
effort has been made. Able and trustworthy 
in the management of his cases he has built 
up the confidence of the community and has 
even more than his share of the public patron- 
age. He is a faithful adherent to Demo- 
cratic principles, and conservative on relig- 
ious matters. 



WTLLIAM TELL JOHNSON. 

William Tell Johnson. Born August 4, 
1848, at Osceola, St. Clair county, Mo. Son 
of Judge Waldo P. and Emily (Moore) 
Johnson. The latter was a daughter of an 
old Virginia family, and the grandfather of 
William Tell was a soldier in the Revolution, 
achieving the position of major, on the 
patriotic side, in the struggle. He was also 
prominent in the Indian wars. His wife, 
whose maiden name was Rachel Pindall, was 
slain by the Red men in West Virginia. 

William Tell acquired his education in 
the University of Notre Dame, Ind. He 
studied law in the office of his father and was 
admitted to the bar, in 1872, at Butler, Mo. 
Returning to Osceola he began his career as 
a barrister, where he continued his profession 
until 1879, when he removed to Kansas City, 
Mo., and formed a partnership with John H. 
Lucas in 1874, and in 1883 William H. 
Lucas was admitted to the firm. Mr. John- 
son was a believer in railroads, and did 
much as a developer of various parts of the 
state through such investments. He has also 
been interested largely in street railway en- 
terprises, and has been active in the founding 
of a number of banks. In politics he is a 
Democrat. 

September 5, 1885, he was married to 
Miss Agnes M. Harris, a native Missourian, 
daughter of Dr. Edwin E. Harris, of St. 
Clair county, Mo., a prominent surgeon in 
the Confederate army, who sacrificed his life 
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been bom : Margaret, Robert and Mary. 
Business address, Keith and Perry building, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



STONEWALL J. JONES. 

Stonewall J. Jones. Lawyer. Born Au- 
gust 23, 1866, in Carroll county, Mo. Son 
of Thomas M. and Delilah Jones. Educated 
in the common schools and Normal School 
at Kirksville, Mo. He was reared on a 
farm, taught school, then began the practice 
of law ; admitted to the bar in January, 
1888; began practice at Hale, Mo. Moved 
to Carrollton in 1901, where he has since 
practiced his profession, and is a member of 
the law firm of Jones & Conkling, composed 
of S. J. Jones and Newlan Conkling. estab- 
lished in July, 1905. The firm conducts a 
large general practice. 

Mr. Jones was elected prosecuting attor- 
ney in 1900, re-elected in 1902. He is a 
member of the Masonic Order and Knights 
of Pythias. In politics he is a Democrat, 
and was married November 7, 1889, in Hale, 
Mo., to Miss Al'ice EL Fair. One child, 
Grover Jones. Business and residence ad- 
dress, Carrollton, Missouri. 



ROBERT L. WINTER. 

Robert L. Winter, of Kansas City, Mo., 
of the well known firm of R. L. Winter & 
Company, was born in the province of On- 
tario, Canada, and was there reared to man- 
hood and educated. At the age of twenty- 
one years he made up his mind to come to the 
United States, and, accordingly, in 1882. 



came to Kansas City, and in partnership with 
his brother, G. F. Winter, engaged in the 
real estate business under the firm name of 
G. F. & R. L. Winter. The business they 
conducted together, with constantly growing 
success and influence, until 1904, when R. L. 
Winter acquired the business and adopted the 
present name. He does a large business in 
buying and selling real estate, and handling 
many valuable properties, including those of 
the New York Life Insurance Company, and 
other large estates, and has done a vast deal 
to build up this western metropolis. He is a 
director of the Real Estate Exchange, and a 
member of the Commercial Club, the ICan- 
sas City Club and the Elm Ridge Club, and 
is a member of the Kansas City World's Fair 
Commission. 



CULLEN A. BATTLE. 

Cullen A. Battle. Manufacturer. Son 
of Amos J. and Iilargaret (Parker) Battle, 
was born May 8, 1848, at Murfreesboro, N. 
C. His father was a well known Baptist 
clergyman and educator, and naturally gave 
his son the advantages of a good education. 

Young Battle was entered at Wilson Col- 
legiate Seminary, a famous military institu- 
tion of his native town, from which he was 
graduated after the completion of the classi- 
cal course. After finishing school he decided 
to take up telegraphing and, accordingly en- 
tered the employ of the Western Union Tele- 
graph Company, but after a short period 
concluded it was not to his liking, so em- 
barked in the drug business, turning his at- 
tention to the compounding and sale of pro- 
prietary preparations. In 1875 he established 
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today he is president of the Battle Company 
Chemists Corporation, which has gained 
fame and fortune through the manufacture 
of Battle's Bromidia, and other standard 
remedies used extensively in the medical pro- 
fession. Mr. Battle has many outside in- 
terests, and accordingly spends much time 
out of this city, also taking frequent trips 
abroad. He, however, is a devoted citizen of 
St. Louis, and always ready to promote its 
welfare. 

In 1885 Mr. Battle was married to Miss 
Ida Pugh, of Kentucky. Business address, 
2001 Locust street; residence address, 4272 
Washington boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GERSON B. SILVERMAN. 

Gerson B. Silverman. Born January 17, 
1871, in Chillicothe, Mo. He attended the 
Wentworth Military Academy at Lexington, 
Mo., and was the only member of the grad- 
uating class of 1887. He entered the Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, Mo., where he 
took a special course in literary work, and 
attended law lectures in the same university. 
In Lexington, Mo., he read law with Alex- 
ander Graves, a lawyer of conspicuous ability 
and a former member of congress from Mis- 
souri. Was admitted to the bar in 1892, by 
Judge Richard Field, at Sedalia, Mo. He 
began the practice of his profession in Lex- 
ington, and about the same time was ap- 
pointed assistant prosecuting attorney of La- 
fayette county. Mo. In 1894 he removed 
west with his parents to Kansas City, and 
formed a law partnership with Edwin F. 
Weil, under the firm name of Silverman & 
Weil. He has successfully prosecuted and 
defended several noted criminal cases in the 



Kansas City courts, also several important 
civil causes where his ability has been dem- 
onstrated as an able counselor. He is a mem- 
ber of the Kansas City Bar Association. Is 
an active Democrat and a live, progressive 
citizen. Business address, 531 New York 
Life building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



LOUIS SKRAINKA. 

Louis Skrainka. Contractor. Born Au- 
gust 2"], 1859, i" St. Louis, Mo. Son 
of Joseph and Katharine (Schmidlinger) 
Skrainka. Educated in the St. Louis High 
School. Mr. Skrainka started his business 
life as a clerk in a drug store. Afterwards 
was clerk for a contracting firm, then super- 
intendent, and then owner. The Skrainka 
firm is numbered among the most prominent 
contractors for city work, especially for 
street construction. They laid the founda- 
tion for the new water works; built the 
bridge at Twenty-first street ; made the pave- 
ment of Union station, and are constantly 
engaged in the execution of important con- 
tracts for public and private account, giving 
employment to hundreds of workmen and 
laborers. They are owners of limestone 
quarries within the city limits, and operate 
their extensive granite works at Knob Lick, 
Mo. The faithful performance of all work 
entrusted to them and the strict integrity in 
all their dealing won for the firm an enviable 
reputation and the confidence of all whom 
they have dealt with. They are active, ener- 
getic business men of great ability, possess 
ample means, have an excellent standing in 
the community and take an active interest in 
all public afifairs. 

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Construction Company, and Atlantic Quarry 
Company, both incorporated ; and is a mem- 
ber of the Columbian Club, St. Louis, Mo. 
In politics he is Republican. Business ad- 
dress, 806 Security building; residence ad- 
dress, 4318 Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HUGH C. WARD. 



Hugh C. Ward, a prominent member of 
the Kansas City bar, was born Alarch 10, 
1863, at Westport, Mo., and is the son of 
Seth E. and May Frances (McCarty. nee 
Harris) Ward. He was reared on a farm 
near Kansas City, and received his primary 
education at a private school in Westport, 
and his advanced education at William Jewel 
College, Liberty, Mo., and Harvard Univer- 
sity, graduating from the latter in.stitution 
with the degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1886. 
He then entered the St. Louis Law School 
and graduated therefrom with distinction in 
1888. The following year he located in 
Kansas City for the practice of his profes- 
sion. He is general attorney of the Kansas 
City, Mexico & Orient Railway, now in 
course of construction, and also counsel of 
the Kansas City Home Telephone Company, 
and a number of other large corporations. 
He is at present senior member of the law 
firm of Ward & Hadley, one of the strongest 
in the city. He was elected to the Legisla- 
ture of Missouri in 1892, and took an im- 
portant part in the deliberations of that body. 
He served as vice-chairman of the judiciary 
committee, vice-chairman of the committee 
on municipal corporations, and as member of 
the committee on constitutional amend- 
ments. In 1898 he was appointed police com- 
missioners of Kansas City by Governor 



Stephens. Under the organization of the 
Missouri National Guards he was placed 
upon the staff, by Governor Stephens, as 
commissary general. He is a director of the 
National Bank of Commerce, Kansas City 
Railway & Light Company and the Kansas 
City Home Telephone Company. He is a 
member of the Society of Colonial Wars, 
deriving his eligibility through the lineal 
descent from Seth Ward, a member of the 
Virginia house of burgesses. He is also a 
member of the Elks, the Country Club, the 
Commercial Club, and is vice-president of 
the Harvard Club, of Kansas City, Mo., and 
of the American Bar Association. He stands 
high in the community, and has other dis- 
tinctions awaiting him. Business address, 
National Bank of Commerce building, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



JESSE MERCER BATTLE. 

Jesse Mercer Battle. ^Manufacturer and 
chemist. Born at Center Hill, Perquimans 
county, N. C. Son of Rev. Amos Johnson 
and Margaret Hearne (Parker) Battle. Re- 
ceived a splendid education, graduating from 
the Wilson Collegiate Seminary at Wilson, 
N. C. Became a telegraph operator, and 
was for a period in the employ of the West- 
ern Union Telegraph Company. He ac- 
quired an interest, with his brother, in the 
drug business, and in the Battle & Com- 
pany, chemists, corporation, of which he is 
secretary. To the advancement of the in- 
terests of this great concern he has devoted 
his time and his energies with rare efficiency 
and success. Mr. Battle occupies a conspic- 
uous position in business and social circles of 
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Board of Charity Commissioners during the 
administration of Mayor Noonan. He was 
one of the originators of the St. Louis Gen- 
tleman's Driving Club, and in 1898 was its 
president, and is prominently identified with 
various secret and social bodies, including the 
Masons, the Odd Fellows, the Legion of 
Honor, and the Royal Arcanum. 

Mr. Battle married, in 1873, Laura E. 
Lee. They have one daughter, Helen (Bat- 
tle) Smith, wife of Eugene Fleming Smith, 
of St. Louis. Business address, 2001 Lo- 
cust street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JONATHAN WARREN GEORGE. 

Jonathan Warren George. Real estate 
dealer. Born in 1870 in Bunker Hill, 111. 
Son of Oliver Carpenter and Phebe Eliza- 
beth (Squire) George. Acquired his educa- 
tion in the public schools in Illinois and the 
Manual Training School of Washington 
University, graduating from the latter in 
the class of 1889. Mr. George is descended 
from Revolutionary war stock who held com- 
manding positions in the Continental army. 
He located in St. Louis, Mo., in 1886. He 
was a mechanical draftsman in 1889. After- 
wards entered the library profession, contin- 
uing in the same for thirteen years, leaving 
the position of reference librarian in the St. 
Louis public library. In 1902 engaged in 
the real estate business, which he has success- 
fully conducted since that time. He is an 
official and director in various business enter- 
prises. A member of the Washington Uni- 
versity Association, of the Algonquin Golf 
Club, and the Missouri Athletic Club. In 
religious belief he is a Congregationalist, and 
in politics he is independent. 



Mr. George was married in 1896, in 
Alton, III., to Miss Anna Laura Pringle. 
Children, Ruth and Warren George. Busi- 
ness address, National Bank of Commerce 
building, St. Louis, Mo. Residence address, 
Webster Park, Webster Groves, Missouri. 



FREDERICK HAMPDEN BACON. 

Frederick Hampden Bacon. Lawyer. 
Born May 5, 1849, in Niles, Mich. Son of 
Daniel and Caroline S. (Lord) Bacon. Edu- 
cated in the Niles, (Mich.) High School, 
1866; University of Michigan, attending the 
literary department of the institution in 
1867-1869. The father of Frederick H. was 
judge of the Michigan Supreme Court, and 
for many years a judge of the Circuit Court 
in that state. 

Frederick Hampden Bacon located in St. 
Louis, Mo.. October 18, 1874, from the state 
of Michigan. He began practicing in Michi- 
gan in 1 87 1, and in 1872 was elected circuit 
court commissioner for Berrien county, 
Mich. Since locating in Missouri he has 
been engaged continuously in the practice 
from that date. In his practice he has made 
a specialty of corporation law, and he repre- 
sents many large corporations and firms and 
life insurance organizations. He is the 
author of "Standard Law Treatise on Law 
of Life Insurance (benefit societies and life 
insurance) published first in 1888, and is 
now in the third edition. He was a member 
of the Mercantile Club and Missouri Ath- 
letic Club, of St. Louis: is a Presbyterian in 
religious belief, and affiliates with the Re- 
publican party. Was married July 17. 1882, 
in Niles, Mich., to Miss Clara J. Cleland. 
Two children have been born, Ethel E. and 



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Maria C. Bacon. Business address, 509 
Olive street; residence address, 5217 Ray- 
mond avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHAUNCEY PARMALEY FAIRMAN. 

Chauncey Parmaley Fairman. Lawyer. 
Born June 25, 1865, in Kansas City, Mo. 
Son of Chauncey Wilmot and Jane Ann 
(Parmaley) Fairman. He graduated from 
the public schools of Kansas City, in 1882, 
and from the Kansas City School of Law in 
1899, ^^''^^1 '^'"'^ degree of B. L. Admitted to 
the bar on June 13, 1899. He learned the 
trade of a sheet metal worker; afterward be- 
came a bookkeeper, then secretary of a build- 
ing association, and while in this position 
began the study of law and was admitted to 
the bar ; afterwards engaged in the general 
practice of the law, which profession he now 
pursues. 

Mr. Fairman is a member of the Kansas 
City Bar Association, and affiliates with the 
Democratic party. He was married January 
8, 1890, in Kansas City, Mo., to Miss 
Eleanor Josephine Harbaugh. Business ad- 
dress, 203 Empire building; residence ad- 
dress, "The Lorraine," 1015 Broadway, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



JAMES KELLOGG BURNHAM. 

James Kellogg Burnham, an active and 
prominent business man of Kansas City, 
Mo., was born in Ouincy, Branch county, 
Mich., August 26, 1843. ^Is ^s a son of 
Joseph Trumbull and Harriet (Gilbert) 
Burnham. both natives of Connecticut, the 



former at Hebron and the latter at Norwich. 
The paternal grandparents were Davis and 
Katherine (Trumbull) Burnham, the Trum- 
bull family being one of the old historic fam- 
ilies of New England. Jonathan Trumbull, 
Sr., was governor of Connecticut from 1769 
to 1784; Joseph was commissary general in 
the army of Washington during the Revolu- 
tionary war; Jonathan, Jr., was paymaster 
of the same army ; Mary Trumbull married 
William Williams, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence; Davis was a 
commissary general in the American army 
during the Revolution ; and John was an 
aide-de-camp to General Washington, and a 
celebrated painter. The maternal grandpar- 
ents were Lewis and Sallie (Ward) Gilbert, 
of Norwich, Lewis being a son of Sylvester 
Gilbert, an eminent jurist. Two sons were 
born to David and Harriet Burnham : Gil- 
bert and James Kellogg. 

James K. Burnham was educated in the 
public schools of his native town, and a busi- 
ness college in Chicago. Since early man- 
hood he has been interested in mercantile 
pursuits, and he has been actively connected 
with several important business enterprises. 
He is now president of the Burnham-Han- 
nah-Munger Dry Goods Company, and the 
Burnham-Munger Manufacturing Company, 
both of Kansas City, and of the Burnham- 
Stoepel Dry Goods Company, of Detroit, 
Mich. He is a director of the New England 
National Bank and the Fidelity Trust Com- 
pany, of Kansas City ; has served the city as 
park commissioner ; is a member of the Com- 
mercial Club, Kansas City Club and Coun- 
try Club, of Kansas City; Arkwright Club, 
and New York Athletic Club, of New York. 
Politically Mr. Burnham is a Republican, 
and he is a member of the First Congrega- 
tional Church, of Kansas City, and one of 



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the trustees. He was married on November 
15, 1 86 1, to Ella C, daughter of Stephen 
and Electa (Williams) Van Camp, of 
Ouincy, Mich., the mother of Mrs. Burnham 
being a lineal descendant of Roger Williams. 
Mr. and Mrs. Burnham have the following 
children : Edith Blanch, married Rice R. 
Miner ; Jessie Emma, married John F. 
Downing; Grace Mable married Rollins M. 
Hockaday; Clara Averys and Ella Kellogg 
Burnham. 



ERNEST G. HOFMANN. 

Ernest G. Hofmann. President of the 
Hofmann Bros.' Produce Company. Born 
November 20, 1837, in Germany. Son of 
Louis and Mary (Schleiter) Hofmann. Ed- 
ucated in the public schools of Germany up 
to his eleventh year, afterwards in the public 
schools of the United States. He located in 
America in 1849; took up his residence in 
St. Louis, Mo., in 1858. He began his 
career in the produce and commission busi- 
ness in i860, and has continued in 
the same ever since. He was a clerk 
in Lowville and Rochester, N. Y. June 
26. 1880, the Hofmann Bros.' Pro- 
duce Company was incorporated (pre- 
viously Hofmann Bros.), and he became 
president of that company. The principal 
articles in which the firm deals are dried and 
evaporated fruit ; butter, cheese, beans, peas 
and various kinds of produce. Fa'jr and 
honorable dealing won for the firm an envia- 
ble reputation, and the fullest confidence of 
the fruit growers, farmers, creamery owners 
and dairymen in the different parts of the 
country, as well as their customers here and 
elsewhere. The shipments of the firm go to 
several states, and include large exportations 



to Europe. A branch established at San 
Jacinto, Cal., serves especially for the pur- 
chase and inland distribution of dried and 
evaporated fruit and its transatlantic export. 
The proprietors are all actively engaged in 
the management of the business, which has 
grown from year to year, resulting in a well 
deserved success as a just reward for their 
energy and constant attention to all the de- 
tails of their trade. 

Mr. Hofmann was married, July 18, 
1867, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Clara T. 
Steinwender. Children : L. A., Linda, Al- 
vin, Silta and Emma Hofmann. Business 
address, 700-702 North Second street; resi- 
dence address, 3641 Cleveland avenue, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



GEORGE HENRY GRIFFIN. 

George Henry Griffin. Contractor of 
steel bridges. Born in 1862, in Mount Pleas- 
ant, Pa. Son of George A. and Sarah 
(Austin) Griffin. Educated in the public 
schools of Wooster, Ohio. Began his career 
as a workman in bridge construction in 1880, 
and since has devoted his entire time and 
attention to this calling and the various 
details of this business. He has intimately 
familiarized himself so that his proficiency 
in this line has placed him in his present posi- 
tion as the chief executive officer of this noted 
corporation, the Geo. H. Griffin Company, 
which is composed of the following officials : 
George H. Griffin, president and treasurer; 
Milton Moore, vice-president; R. M. Travis, 
secretary. Established and incorporated in 
1902. Since its organization the company 
has constructed the Missouri Pacific Com- 
pany's shops at Sedalia, Mo. ; First National 



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Bank building; several of the Kansas river 
bridges, and prominent structures in Kansas 
City and elsewhere. Mr. Griffin is a member 
of the K. of P., and a thirty-second degree 
Mason, and a member of the Reformed 
Church ; Republican in politics, 

Mr. Griffin was married to Miss Ella F. 
Jones, January 4, 1888, in Wooster, Ohio. 
Children, Floyd Lincoln and Ruth Griffin. 
Business address, 601 Nelson building; resi- 
dence address, 3633 Central street, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



FREDERICK W. HOFMANN. 

Frederick W. Hofmann. Vice-president 
of the Hofmann Bros.' Produce Company. 
Born October 2, 1840, in Wieseck, Germany. 
Son of J. Louis and Mary (Schleiter) Hof- 
mann. Educated in the public schools of 
Germany and the United States. His father 
was a school teacher in Germany. He began 
his business life in 1854. in the fruit and 
confectionery business, and remained in the 
same until 1857. Then in the shoe business 
until i860. Since i860 he has been in the 
fruit and produce commission business in St. 
Louis, with the firm of Hofmann Bros. Pro- 
duce Company, and Hofmann Bros., of 
which he is vice-president. The shipments of 
the firm go to almost all the states, and in- 
clude large exportations to Europe. The 
branch established at San Jacinto, Cal., serves 
especially for the purchase and inland distri- 
bution of dried and evaporated fruit and its 
transatlantic exports. The firm has been suc- 
cessful since its organization. Mr. Hofmann 
is a member of the Legion of Honor. He is 
independent in religion, also in politics. 

Mr. Hofmann was married November 



10, 1863, in Millersburg, Iowa. Children: 
Flora L. and Oscar S. Hofmann. Business 
address, 700-702 North Second street; resi- 
dence address, 3233 Hawthorne boulevard, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM FRANCIS ZUMBRUNN. 

William Francis Zumbrunn. Loan 
Broker. Born December 9, 1877, in Falls 
City, Neb. Son of Henry F. and May Belle 
(Gutscher) Zumbrunn. Educated in the 
Nelson Nebraska high school. Grand Island 
Business College, Nebraska State Univer- 
sity. 1898 to 1904 in the financial brokerage 
business (Callaway, Neb.), 1904 came to 
Kansas City, Mo., engaged in the loan bus- 
iness. Republican in politics, and a member 
of the I. O. O. F. Married June 12, 1901, 
at Callaway, Neb., to Miss Sadie Greer. 
Business address, 220 Bryant building. Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



ADOLPH GLASER. 

Adolph Glaser. Importer of laces and 
embroidery. Born January 30, 1854, in 
Austria. Son of Samuel and Kate (Maurer) 
Glaser. Educated in the public and high 
schools in Germany ; is a member of the firm 
of Adolph Glaser & Co., established in 
1880. Mr. Glaser came to St. Louis, Mo., 
in 1867, direct from Europe. He has con- 
ducted a successful business from the time 
it was organized up to the present time. He 
began business when the compensation was 
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wards was engaged in the retail and whole- 
sale business until he entered the present 
firm. Mr. Glaser is a member of the Mer- 
chants' League, St. Louis, Mo., Columbian 
Club. In religion he is a Hebrew. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican. Married Decem- 
ber 21, 1 88 1 in Philadelphia to Miss Rosa- 
lind Scherzer. Children, Arthur S. and 
Corinne S. Glaser. Business address, 1125- 
27-29 Washington avenue; residence ad- 
dress 4331 West Pine boulevard. 



JUDGE HENRY CLAY McDOUGAL 

Was born in Marion county, Va., Dec. 
9, 1844. The remote paternal ancestors are 
from Scotland. His maternal ancestors 
were of English and Scotch origin, and 
among the earliest colonists of America. 
They came from England under the second 
charter, granted in 1609 by James the First 
to the company of Adventureers and Planters 
for the first colony of Virginia settling on the 
James river. Judge McDougal's father, 
John F. McDougal, was a farmer and stock 
raiser. Judge Henry Clay acquired his ed- 
ucation in the common schools of his native 
state. Was ready to enter college when the 
Civil war broke out. He espoused the Union 
cause when families and friends were much 
divided. He saw his duty in adherence to 
the cause he was willing to fight for and 
maintain and in July, 1861, shortly after the 
defeat of Bull Run he enlisted as a private 
in Company A, Sixth Regiment of Virginia 
Infantry Volunteers (Union). In 1863 he 
was detailed as chief clerk of the Third Brig- 
ade, Second Division of the Eighth Army 
Corps, which he held until mustered out of 
the services in August, 1864, at Wheeling, 



Va. He next entered the Civil service of 
the government accepting a situation as clerk 
in the United States quartermaster's depart- 
ment at Gallipolis, Ohio, serving there and at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, until 1865 when he was 
made chief clerk of the transportation di- 
vision at Indianapolis, Indiana ; there he re- 
mained until March, 1866, when he resigned. 
He was tendered by President Johnson a 
commission as major in the United States 
army which honor was also declined. His 
father had previously located in Missouri 
and in 1866 he decided to make that state his 
future home. In February, 1867 he entered 
the law office of Judge Robert L. Dodge at 
Gallatin, the county seat of Daviess County, 
Mo. In November, 1868, he was admitted 
to the bar by Judge Jonas J. Clark and began 
practice there. He was city clerk of Gallatin 
and in 1870 was elected mayor of that city 
and held it for two terms, declining a third 
term. Was judge of the Probate Court of 
Daviess County to which he was elected in 
1872, serving four years. In December, 
1874, he formed a partnership with Marcus 
A. Low, in 1876 admitting Colonel John H. 
Shanklin, Trenton, Mo., and the firm became 
Shnnklin, Low & McDougal, all of whom 
were foremost lawyers of the state. In 
1885, moved to Kansas City, Mo., and be- 
came a member of the law partnership of 
Crittenden, McDougal & Stiles, 1886-9. 
Since 1889 a member of the firm of McDou- 
gal & Sebree. In 1895 accepted the office of 
city counselor of Kansas City. Judge Mc- 
Dougal is a member of the bar of the United 
States Supreme Court and in 1894 was unan- 
imously elected president of the Missouri 
Bar Association. He is a Royal Arch Ma- 
son, a Knights Templar since 1868. He was 
married November 2, 1869, in Gallipolis, 
Ohio, to Miss Emma F. Chapdu; five chil- 



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dren have been born to this union. Office, 
New York Life building, Kansas City, Mis- 
souri. 



HOBART BRINSMADE. 

Hobart Brinsmade, President of King- 
Brinsmade Mercantile Company. Born Nov. 
20, 1845, in Trumbull, Conn., son of Lewis 
and Elizabeth (Fairchild) Brinsmade. Ed- 
ucated in the public schools of Trumbull, 
Stratford Academy, and Easton Academy, 
graduating in the class of 1862, and was a 
student one year under private tutor for 
civil engineering. Several of his paternal 
ancestors participated in the war of the 
American Revolution ; one was captain of 
the corps of sappers and engineers of the 
Continental army. In early life he was a 
member of the Connecticut National 
Guards, from 1863 to 1871 ; private orderly, 
sargent, second lieutenant, first lieutenant, 
and captain. He was principal of graded 
schools at Fairfield, New Canaan, and 
Bridgeport, Conn., from seventeen to twen- 
ty-two years of age. Then engaged in the 
book business for three years with Wm. B. 
Hincks of Bridgeport, under style of Brins- 
made & Hincks. He disposed of his busi- 
ness and became the general agent in West- 
ern New York, for the Howe Sewing Ma- 
chine Co., later as general western repre- 
sentative of the same company, in St. Louis, 
Mo., in 1885, the company went out of bus- 
iness ; then he accepted a position with the 
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. Co. as general 
European agent with headquarters at Lon- 
don, England. Returned to St. Louis in 
1890, and joined the firm of D. H. King & 
Co. in the wholesale millinery business, and 
in 1895 was elected president of the King- 



Brinsmade Mercantile Company, incorpo- 
rated in the same year, and succeeded the 
former firm now composed of Hobart Brins- 
made, president; Frank W. Crandall, vice- 
president; H. B. King, secretary and treas- 
urer. He is one of the prominent mem- 
bers of the Mercantile Club, Business Men's 
League, Congregational Club, Young Men's 
Christian Association and for fourteen years 
director of the same, and was resident com- 
missioner for Connecticut to the Lou- 
isiana Purchase Exposition in 1904. In pol- 
itics he is a Republican; in religious belief 
he is a Congregationalist, and chairman of 
the board of trustees of Pilgrim Congrega- 
tional Church and deacon. Married Janu- 
ary 3, 1871 at Bridgeport, Conn., to Miss 
Ella M. Lyon; children, Robert Bruce and 
Lewis Lyon Brinsmade. Business address, 
1110-12-14 Washington avenue; residence, 
4429 Morgan street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HEBER W. ADAMS, JR. 

Heber W. Adams, Jr., Lawyer. Born in 
Pike County, Mo., October 2, 1859, son of 
Heber W. and Elizabeth (Reading) Adams. 
Was educated in the public schools of Mis- 
souri and graduated from St. Louis Law 
School, in 1886, and began the practice of 
law in June, 1886. Was appointed assistant 
prosecuting attorney in St. Louis by Mayor 
D. R. Francis, which position he held from 
1889 to 1 89 1, and has been in general prac- 
tice since. General council and attorney for 
St. Louis, Galveston Coal and Mining com- 
pany, and is president of the Simpkins Man- 
ufacturing Company. In politics he is a 
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Church. Residence, 2035 Park avenue; 
office, 725 Odd Fellows building, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



LOUIS CLEMENS SPIERING. 

Louis Clemens Spiering. Architect. 
Among the distinguished architects of St. 
Louis, who have achieved prominence and 
fame both in this country and Europe, is the 
name of Louis C. Spiering, born May 8, 
1874, in St. Louis, Mo., son of Ernst and 
Theresa (Bernays) Spiering. 

The grandfather. Dr. Charles Louis Ber- 
nays, was American consul in Denmark and 
Switzerland. Mr. Spiering's early educa- 
tion was in the St. Louis public schools ; his 
general education was continued in the Cin- 
cinnati public schools and then at the Real 
Gymnasium in Berlin Germany, from where 
he graduated. Mr. Spiering began to study 
architecture at the Imperial and Royal high 
School of Technology, Berlin, and completed 
his architectural studies at the celebrated 
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France. He is 
a graduate of the Ecole des Beaux Arts. 
While in Paris, Mr. Spiering also studied at 
the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs and Sculpture 
with Mr. Maniglier. Later the official dip- 
loma carrying with it the title of "Archi- 
tecte diplome par le Gouvernment" was 
conferred upon Mr. Spiering by the French 
government in June, 1902. After equipping 
himself with a thorough education in the 
most noted institutions abroad he returned 
to his native state and began the practice of 
his chosen profession, architecture, in St. 
Louis, Mo., where he has built up a good 
practice and was one of the principal design- 
ers of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. 
Mr. Spiering is atelier instructor in Design 



in Washington University, St. Louis. He 
is a member of the Societe des Architects 
Diplomates par le Gouvernment, Paris; So- 
ciety of Beaux Arts Architects, New York ; 
American Institute of Architects, New 
York; St. Louis Chapter of the American 
Institute of Architects; St. Louis Artist's 
Guild ; St. Louis Architectural Club, a mem- 
ber of the University Club, etc. In religious 
belief he is a Protestant, in politics he is in- 
dependent. Business address, Chemical 
building; residence address, 3928 Lindell 
boulevard, St. Louis, Mo. 



HENRY DUNCKER. 

Henry Duncker, President of the Tror- 
licht-Duncker & Renard Carpet Co. Born 
in Selsingen, Hanover, Germany, Decem- 
ber 28, 1836, son of Adolph Jacob and So- 
phie Margaret (Junge) Duncker, educated 
in the common schools of Germany and in 
America attended Johnson's Commercial 
College. In early manhood he began his ca- 
reer as a clerk and retail salesman, later in 
a wholesale dry goods house and at the be- 
ginning of the Civil war enlisted as a priv- 
ate soldier in Company "C", F«urth Regi- 
ment Infantry, Missouri Volunteers, three 
months service ; re-enlisted as captain in 
Company "F," Second Missouri Artillerv. 
and served under General Curtis and other 
commands in the army of the southwest. 
Participated in the capture of Camp Jack- 
son May 10, 1 86 1, under General Lyons, in 
St. Louis, Mo. Resigned in the fall of 1863, 
served in several court martial proceedings, 
provost marshal and Commander Forts 9 
and 10 in St. Louis and the Port at Houston, 
Mo. In 1863 he organized the firm of H. 



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Duncker & Co., which was succeeded by 
Trorhcht & Duncker in August, 1866. In 
1885 the style of the firm co-partnership 
was changed to TrorHcht-Duncker & Renard 
Carpet Co. Later the concern was incor- 
porated in 1890 and Mr. Duncker became 
president of the corporation. He is a mem- 
ber of the Merchants League, Repubhcan 
Club, and is a member of various other 
clubs. Li religion he is a Protestant and in 
politics he is a Republican. He was married 
August 6, 1864 in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss 
Mary Bergesch. They have one child, 
Charles H. Duncker. Business address, cor- 
ner Fourth and Washington avenue; resi- 
dence, 3636 Page avenue. 



jMercantile Club of St. Louis. Business ad- 
dress, Keith & Perry building, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES S. KEITH. 

Charles S. Keith of Kansas City, Mo., 
general manager of the Central Coal and 
Coke Company, was born January 28, 1873, 
in Kansas City, Mo. He was educated at St. 
John's College, Fordham, New York City, 
and was graduated in 1891 with the degree 
of Bachelor of Science. In July, 1891, he 
entered the office of the Central Coal and 
Coke Company as bookkeeper and has been 
with this concern ever since. It is one of the 
strong business concerns of Kansas City, and 
Mr. Keith has well earned the high reputa- 
tion with which he is credited. Since Au- 
gust, 1903, he has been general manager of 
the Ce-ntral Coal & Coke Company, who 
own and operate coal mines and lumber mills 
in Wyoming, Kansas, Missouri, Indian Ter- 
ritory, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas. Mr. 
Keith is a member of the Commercial. Kan- 
sas City Country, Driving and the Elm 
Ridge Jockey Clubs of Kansas City and the 



WILLIAM FRANKLIN DUVALL. 

William Franklin Duvall. Cashier of 
the Farmers' Bank, Butler, Mo. Born 
May 17, 1866, in Mackinaw, 111. Son of 
William Penn and Sarah Jane (Whisler) 
Duvall. He acquired his early education, 
first in the country schools up to 1880; from 
1880 to 1884, Butler Academy; 1884 to 
1885 Butler Commercial College. He began 
his business career as a clerk in a loan com- 
pany, and in 1890 established and founded 
the Duvall-Percival Loan Company, com- 
posed of the following individuals : W. 
F. Duvall, H. E. Percival and J. B. 
Duvall. From the time of the organization 
of this company up to the present time they 
have placed on farm land in Missouri over 
$8,000,000, and now have outstanding some 
$4,000,000 loans, which have been placed 
for bank and trust companies and individual 
investors without the loss of a dollar to those 
for whom the loan was obtained or them- 
selves. Mr. Duvall is now president of the 
Duvall-Percival Loan Company; cashier of 
of the Farmers' Bank, Butler, Mo., and a 
director in the A. H. Culver Furniture Com- 
pany, and ranks as one of the wealthiest men 
in his section of the state. He has been chair- 
man of the Republican central committee, 
and was mayor of the city of Butler from 
1900 to 1902, being the only Republican who 
ever held the office. The civic and political 
honors that have been conferred upon him by 
the people is a strong endorsement of their 
confidence and esteem. 

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always taken an active interest in his party; 
member of the Elks and the Missouri 
Bankers' Association. In rehgious belief he 
is an Episcopalian. He was married Decem- 
ber 3, 1900, to Miss Regina Rosser, at 
Butler, Mo. Children : Warren and Leslie. 
Business and residence address, Butler, 
Missouri. 



George Holeman. Business address, 1324 
Chemical building; residence address, 3744 
Finney avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MINARD LA FEVER HOLEMAN. 

Minard LaFever Holeman. Civil en- 
gineer. Born June 15, 1852, in Mexico, 
Oxford County, Maine. Son of John Henry 
and Mary Anne (Richards) Holeman. Ac- 
quired his education in the public schools of 
St. Louis, Mo., and Washington University, 
graduating in the class of '74. His great- 
grandfather was in the Revolutionary war 
and his father in the late Civil war, and was 
colonel of the First United States Colored 
Troops. 

Mr. Holeman came to St. Louis, Mo., in 
1859, where he has made his permanent res- 
idence ever since. After graduation in the 
engineering department of Washington Uni- 
versity, he became a consulting engineer, 
which business he has followed up to the 
present time. He is a member of the firm of 
Holeman & Laird, who are consulting en- 
gineers. He is a director in the Gillett Brick 
& Tile Company, a member of the American 
Society of Civil Engineers, American So- 
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, honorary 
member of the American Waterworks Asso- 
ciation, is a thirty-second degree Mason and 
member of the Royal Arcanum. In religious 
belief he is a Congregationalist and in poli- 
tics he is a Democrat. Married Sept. 7, 1879, 
in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Margaret Hol- 
land; children, Charles, Mary, Minard and 

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CLAUDE CHAMPLAIN LAWSON. 

Claude Champlain Lawson. Attorney-at- 
Law. Born June 6, 1870, at Foster, Ky. His 
father, John B. Lawson, being a member of 
one of the oldest families of that common- 
wealth, as was also his mother, Emma 
Schoolfield Lawson. One of his ancestors, 
Colonel Montjoy, equipped at his own ex- 
pense, a mounted regiment in the Revolu- 
tionary war. Lieutenant Thomas Lawson, 
his great-grandfather was killed at the bat- 
tle of the River Raisin, in Canada in 1812. 
Although an author and successful business 
man his scholastic education was limited to 
the private and public schools of his native 
State. His business career commenced by 
his association with various financial institu- 
tions, handling investments, etc. For ten 
years he was engaged in merchandising, real 
estate business and other enterprises, but his 
greatest success has been since he engaged in 
the practice of law in Sedalia, Mo. He lo- 
cated in Sedalia in 1895 ^"^ practices both 
in the State and Federal Courts. One of his 
notable legal victories was the securing of a 
verdict for $21,000 damages in the cele- 
brated Woydt case, where the plaintiff sued 
for permanent injuries resulting from com- 
ing in contact with a live electric wire. He 
was married in 1892 to Etta Styles at New- 
port, Ky. He is a member of the Presbyte- 
rian Church and in politics is a Democrat. 
He is secretary of the Gentlemen's Musical 
Club, member of the K. of P. and Modern 
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a member of the B. P. O. E. lodge No. 12 
of Sedalia, Mo. As an author he has writ- 
ten several charming stories, the scenes of 
many of which are laid in his native state, 
Kentucky. Business address, Sedalia, Mis- 
souri. 

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JAMES MENOWN. 

James Menown. Wholesale dealer. Born 
March 27, 1847, J" Ireland. Son of Hugh 
and Eliza (Prince) Menown. Educated in 
the schools of Ireland. Began his career as 
a clerk in wholesale coffee and spices as a 
salesman up to 1874, when he purchased the 
interests of this firm, which was conducted 
under the name of Hugh Menown, and con- 
tinued in that business from 1884 up to the 
present time. He located in St. Louis, Mo., 
in 1859, ^"d has been prominent in business 
circles ever since. He is a member of the 
firm of Menown and Gregory, established in 
1884. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. 
In religious belief he is a Protestant, and in 
politics he is a Republican. Married April 
I, 1864 in Belfast, Ireland, to Miss Eliza 
Magill. Children born, Maggie, Andrew, 
Harry, Rosalie and Roland Menown. Busi- 
ness address, 414 N. Second street; resi- 
dence, 4325 Gano avenue. 



EDMUND CHARLES DONK. 

Edmund Charles Donk. Mine operator. 
Born February ig, 1851, in Crefeld, Ger- 
many, son of Henry and Josephine Lucretia 
(Hinzen) Donk. He came to the United 
States in childhood and spent the early years 
of his life at Peoria, Illinois, obtaining a lim- 



ited education in a private school at St. Louis. 
At seventeen years of age he began his busi- 
ness career, gaining his first practical knowl- 
edge of affairs in connection with commercial 
pursuits. Later he became a member in the 
coal business with his brother in this city, 
which firm took the name of the Donk Bros., 
and of which corporation he is now presi- 
dent and of which has for some time been 
known as the Donk Bros. Coal and Coke 
Company. Their successful business is one 
of the largest of its kind carried on in any 
part of the west. He is a Unitarial church- 
man, a Republican in politics, and a member 
of the Royal Arcanum, the Legion of Honor 
and the Merchants' Exchange Benevolent 
Association. Mr. Donk was married in 1882 
to Miss Josephine Conrades, of St. Louis. 
Business address, Stock Exchange building, 
314 N. Fourth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CYRUS F. CLARK. 



Cyrus F. Clark. Real estate dealer and 
farmer. Born November 17, 1847, i" 
Tamworth, New Hampshire. Son of John 
and Betsy (Jenness) Clark. Educated in 
the common schools and graded school of 
Batavia, Ohio. He worked as a farm hand 
in the beginning of his business career at 
twenty dollars per month, then taught school 
for six years, then engaged in farming and 
dealing in live stock. In 1885 was elected 
director in the Southern Bank at Mexico, 
Mo., and later made vice-president of that 
institution. He is a member, director and 
secretary of Hardin College Board of Edu- 
cation, treasurer of King's Daughters' Home 
for Aged Women. Member of the real es- 
tate firm of Clark & Cauthorn, composed of 



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Cyrus F. Clark and D. H. Cauthorn, estab- 
lished in 1 90 1. The firm transacts also a 
large business in loans and insurance. Mr. 
Clark, in 1867, removed from the state of 
Ohio to Mexico, Mo., where he has since 
resided and is prominent as one of its repre- 
sentative citizens and has aided materially 
in its progressive growth from a village to 
a prosperous commercial inland city. He 
was city councilman of Mexico in 1888; rep- 
resentative of Audrain County in the Gen- 
eral Assembly 1889 to 1890; again re-elected 
and served from 1899 and 1900, where he 
was chairman of the Ways and Means Com- 
mittee, and author of the State Fair Bill. In 
politics he is a Democrat and active in the 
interests of his party. Member of the Elks 
and Modern Woodmen of America. Mar- 
ried to Miss Wilmouth Sims January 19, 
1876, in Audrain county. His wife died July 
10, 1904; children, Charles F. and Fannie B. 
Clark. Business and residence address, 
Mexico, Missouri. 



WALTER BURCH. 



Walter Burch. Lawyer. Born June 10, 
1879, in Audrain county, Missouri. Son of 
Z. T. and Laura A. (Sisk) Burch. Zachary, 
his paternal great-great-grandfather, was a 
Revolutionary soldier. The education of 
Walter was acquired in the public school of 
his native state, Collins Academy at Lad- 
donia, Mo., and William Jewell College. 
Graduated in the law department of the Mis- 
souri University, June, 1902, LL. B. Sus- 
taining himself in college by working on a 
farm during vacation. In 1902 he was ad- 
mitted to the bar and began practice that 
year in Mexico, Mo., where he has success- 



fully practiced his profession ever since. He 
was a representative of Audrain County at 
the Forty-third General Assembly, member 
of the committee on Criminal Jurisprudence 
and the youngest member of the House. He 
was a member of the Missouri State Uni- 
versity debating club, member of the Phi 
Delta Phi ; represented Missouri on debating 
team with Nebraska University in May, 

1901, and with Illinois University in April, 

1902. In both instances the contest was 
awarded to the state of Missouri ; member of 
the Masonic order and the B. P. O. E. 
Baptist in religious belief and in politics a 
Democrat. Business and residence address, 
Mexico, Missouri. 



ABRAM DAVENPORT JACKSON. 

Abram Davenport Jackson. Cashier 
of the Southern Bank. Born October 29, 
1857, in Audrain County, Missouri. Son of 
James and Aseneth (Turner) Jackson. Ed- 
ucated in the public schools of Audrian 
County. Reared on a farm until the age of 
twenty-one years when he entered the mer- 
cantile business in Mexico, Mo., and con- 
tinued in that business until he became con- 
nected with the Southern Bank, of which he 
was elected cashier February i, 1903. Mr. 
Jackson is a representative citizen of 
Mexico, Mo., a public spirited and ag- 
gressive business man, whose ability is 
estimated in successfully conducting the 
mercantile business for many years in 
Mexico, which fitted him peculiarly for 
the business he is now engaged in. As a 
worthy ofificial in one of the sound banking 
institutions of southeast Missouri, Mr. Tack- 
son is vice-president of the Mexico Water 



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Works composed of the following officials, 
J. F. Llewellyn, president; A. D. Jackson, 
vice-president; John J. Steel, secretary and 
manager. He is a member of the Modern 
^\'oodmen of America, Benevolent and Pro- 
tective Order of Elks and member of Mis- 
souri Bankers' Association. In politics he is 
a Democrat. Was married October i, 1881, 
in Mexico, Missouri, to Miss Effie D. Brown, 
who died in October, 1897. Children, 
Turner, Bessie and Clayborn Jackson. Busi- 
ness and residence address, Mexico, Mis- 
souri. 



LOUIS BERNARD SINGER. 

Louis Bernard Singer. Wholesale cloth- 
ing merchant. Born June 13, 1862, in St. 
Louis, Mo. Son of Bernard and Hattie 
(Wise) Singer. Educated in the public and 
high schools of St. Louis. Is a member of 
the firm of Singer & Hirsch, composed of 
Louis Bernard Singer and Ralph Hirsch, es- 
tablished in 1903, wholesale boys' and chil- 
dren's clothing. Mr. Singer started as an 
office boy in the clothing line, then as ship- 
ping clerk, then as salesman in the house, and 
then on the road and later admitted into part- 
nership with the firm of Baer, Seasongood & 
Co., which was afterwards changed to Baer 
Singer & Co., and then later to Baer, Oliver 
Singer Clothing Co. Later, Mr. Baer re- 
tiring and the business was wound up by 
Baer & Singer. His engagement then began 
in the boys' and children's clothing business 
under the firm of L. B. Singer & Co., and 
shortly after admitted Mr. Ralph Hirsch 
and formed the present firm of Singer & 
Hirsch. Mr. Singer is a member of the 
Columbian Club. He is an Israelite in re- 



ligious belief; Republican in politics. Mar- 
ried November 14, 1889 in St. Louis, Mo., 
to Miss Carrie Scharff. Children, Bernard 
and Edna Singer. Business address, 1009 
Washington avenue; residence address, 4235 
Morgan street. 



ROCKWELL MENOTTI MILLIGAN. 

Rockwell i\Ienotti Milligan. Architect. 
Born January 10, 1868, in Centreville, Ont., 
Canada. Son of Henry C. and Harriet 
(Clancy) Milligan. Educated in the public 
schools of Canada, Louis Academy, Wich- 
ita, Kans., Garfield University, Wichita, 
Kans. His paternal ancestors took part in 
the Revolutionary war on the American side. 
Mr. Milligan came to St. Louis, Mo., in 1884 
from Ontario, Canada and engaged in the 
practice of architecture. He is a member of 
the firm of architects, Milligan & Wray. es- 
tablished in 1905. Prior to the establishment 
of the firm of Milligan & Wray, the follow- 
ing buildings were constructed under his 
plans and specifications : St. Vincent's 
Hospital, Bridgeport, Conn. ; St. Vincent's 
Institution for the insane, St. Louis, Mo. ; 
Los Angeles Infirmary, Los Angeles, Cal. ; 
St. Vincent's Infirmary, Sherman, Tex. ; 
St. Leo's Hospital, Greensboro, N. C. ; St. 
Margarets Hospital, Montgomery, Ala. ; 
Providence Sanitarium, Waco, Tex. ; Cotton 
Belt Route Hospital, Texarkana, Ark. He is 
a member of the American Institute of Ar- 
chitects and is a Knight Templar and thirty- 
second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a Mys- 
tic Shriner, Mercantile Club, St. Louis Ar- 
chitectural Club. In religious denomination 
he is a Protestant. In politics he is a Re- 
publican. Married November 6, 1903, in 



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Buffalo, N. Y., to Miss Maud Marquardt. 
Business address, 1201-4 Chemical building; 
residence address, 4156 Flora boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



EDWARD GAY CROW. 

Edward Gay Crow. Real estate dealer. 
Born May 7, 1869, in St. Louis, Mo. Son 
of Philip A. and Sophie M. (Gay) Crow. 
Educated in the public schools of St. Louis 
and Washington University to 1887. 

Mr. Crow is interested largely in South- 
ern plantation property and has successfully 
operated in this branch of the real estate busi- 
ness since 1890, the date of entering the 
same. He is a director in the Edward J. 
Gay Planting & Manufacturing Company, 
of Louisiana. He is a member of the Mis- 
souri Athletic Club. In religion he is a 
Methodist, and in politics Democratic. He 
was married, January 2, 1893, in Clayton, 
Mo., to Miss May McEllinney. Children, 
Gay, Alexander and Philip Crow. Business 
address, 604 Century building; residence 
address, 4429 Forest Park boulevard, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



GEORGE W. PARKER. 

George W. Parker. Lawyer and railway 
president. Born in Springfield, Illinois, son 
of Leonard Buford and Elizabeth A. (Fair- 
leigh) Parker. His father died when he was 
a mere infant ; his mother returned to her na- 
tive home in Kentucky where George W. 
Parker was reared. He received his early 
education at the Elizabeth Academy. While 
a mere youth he learned the printer's trade in 



the office of the Elizabethtown Register. At 
the age of eighteen he became editor and 
proprietor of a newspaper which he con- 
ducted successfully for two years and sold 
the same to advantage. Then moving to 
Glasgow, he established the Glasgow Free 
Press. After a year he sold this paper to 
begin the study of law. After studying for 
two years in the office of Colonel Thomas B. 
Fairleigh, of Brandenburg, Ky., he com- 
pleted the course in a law department of the 
University of Louisville, graduated in 
March, 1861. Then locating in Charleston, 
Illinois, he was for fifteen years a member of 
the law firm of Wiley & Parker. It was here 
that his career in railway life was begim. 
Shortly after settling at Charleston, he was 
made local attorney for the St. Louis, Alton 
& Terre Haute Railroad. In 1865, was pro- 
moted to general counsel of the road ; in 
1867 was made vice-president, and in 1876 
was also made general manager of the road 
at which time he removed with his family to 
St. Louis. In 1887 was elected president of 
the company. In 1869-70, he built the south- 
east division of the St. Louis, Alton & Terre 
Haute Railroad, generally known as the St. 
Louis & Cairo Short Line. Here he contin- 
ued as president until 1889 when it was sold 
to the Big Four. Meanwhile Mr. Parker 
had begun to take part in the financial de- 
velopment of the city of St. Louis. Was vice- 
president of the Continental National Bank 
for over twenty years and in 1890 organized 
the Union Trust Company of which he be- 
came president. Mr. Parker is a member 
of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a 
Republican in politics. He served in the 
Illinois Legislature in 1869 and 1870. He 
is a Mason and a member of the Missouri 
chapter of the Sons of the Revolution. He 
is a director of the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 



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position and a member of the committee on 
Transportation, Legislation, Education and 
a member and chairman of the committee of 
manufacturers and Hberal arts. Mr. Parker 
maried in 1863, Miss Nellie Ferguson. They 
have five children, two sons and three daugh- 
ters, Clarence F., Charles M., Letticia, Bes- 
sie and Gertrude Parker. Business address, 
1300 Olive street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



in Topeka, Kans., to Luna May Wilson. 
Business and residence address, Nevada, 
Missouri. 



OLIVER HEBER HOSS. 

Oliver Heber Hoss. Lawyer. Born near 
Sedalia, Pettis county. Mo., December 4, 
1858. Son of Samuel Blackburn and Al- 
meda (Snell) Hoss. Educated in the district 
schools of his native state; Van Patten's 
Seminary, at Sedalia, Mo., and the Missouri 
State University, 1878- 1879. Reared on a 
farm up to the age of fourteen years ; learned 
the printing business ; admitted to the bar 
December 10, 1883, in Nevada, Mo., where 
he has since resided, and engaged in the gen- 
eral practice of law until 1895, 'i"d since 
that date has devoted his attention to corpo- 
ration law almost exclusively, and is counsel 
for a large number of corporations. He is a 
director of, and counsel for the Bank of Ne- 
vada, and Farm, Home, Savings & Loan 
Association ; president and director of Choc- 
taw Gas Company, and connected with vari- 
ous other business enterprises. He is a mem- 
ber of the A. F. & A. M. at Nevada, Mo. ; 
Chapter Commandery Knights Templar, and 
Ararat Temple of Mystic Shrine at Kansas 
City, Mo., and a member of the Interna- 
tional Typographical L^nion. In religious 
belief he is a Presbyterian ; in politics, a 
Democrat. 

Mr. Hoss was married, October 7, 1891, 



OZIAS PAQUIN. 



Ozias Paquin. Physician, chemist and 
druggist. Born September 28, 1864, in St. 
Andrews, Canada. Son of Julian and Celina 
(Desgardin) Paquin. Educated in the Mis- 
souri State University, graduating in the 
class of 1887; College of Phj'sicians and 
Surgeons, St. Louis, Mo., graduating in the 
class of 1889; New York post-graduate, 
1893. After graduating in the medical pro- 
fession he began the practice of medicine in 
St. Louis, Mo., as a regular practitioner in 
1888, where he has continued in his profes- 
sion ever since. He is now president of the 
Paquin's Immune Company, an institution 
for the successful treatment of all diseases, 
making a specialty of nervous diseases, in- 
cluding all form of narcoticism, etc. 

Dr. Paquin is a Catholic, and a supporter 
and believer in Democratic principles. He 
was married August 18, 1889, in St. Louis, 
Mo., to Miss Jennie F. Mullally. Children : 
Ozias M. and Francis L. Paquin. Business 
address, 705 Burlington building; residence 
address, 5095 Fairmount avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES CLARENCE GUSHING. 

Charles Clarence Gushing. Wholesale 
vinegar and cider dealer. Born June 7, 
1857, in New York City. Son of John and 
Mary (Shepherd) Gushing. He was edu- 
cated in the public and grammar schools of 
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St. Louis Vinegar Company was established. 
Mr. Gushing began his business career as a 
shipping clerk for James Gushing in the vine- 
gar factory at Dubuque, Iowa, in 1873; 
afterwards the manager of a branch house 
in 1889. Bought out the above firm in 1893, 
and is now the oldest and largest jobber of 
vinegar west of the Mississippi river. 

Mr. Gushing is a member of the Masonic 
Order ; Odd Fellows, and K. of P. In relig- 
ious belief he is a Unitarian. In politics he 
is a Republican. He was married, October 
5, 1 88 1, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Lulu 
Shepherd. Ghildren : Fay Olive and Clar- 
ence Gushing. Business address, 525 North 
Second street, St. Louis, Mo. ; residence ad- 
dress, Webster Groves. 



STONEWALL JACKSON WALTON. 

Stonewall Jackson Walton, a lawyer, 
named after the famous Confederate gen- 
eral, Stonewall Jackson, was born August 11, 
1876, in Troy, Mo. Educated in the Mont- 
gomery City High School ; Buchanan Col- 
lege; Missouri University, where the degrees 
of A. B. and LL. B. and LL. M. were con- 
ferred upon him in 1903. 

Mr. Walton is a young lawyer who has 
been successful in his practice since the date 
of his admission to the bar, and although he 
has been devoted to his legal profession and 
has been highly successful in same, he has 
been interested in historical and literary pur- 
suits as well. He is a forcible speaker, and a 
profound reasoner in his legal arguments, 
and is building up an extensive and lucrative 
practice in his profession. In politics he is a 
Democrat and active in the interests of his 
party, and in Christian belief he is a member 



of the Christian Church. He was married, 
May 19, 1904, in Montgomery City, Mo., to 
Miss Rebecca Lovell Uptegrove. Business 
address, 618 Rialto building; residence ad- 
dress, 5035 Ridge avenue, St. Louis, 

Missouri. 

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ARTHUR MALCOLM BLACKWELL. 

Arthur Malcolm Blackwell. President of 
the Blackwell-Wielandy Book & Stationery 
Company. Born in 1849, in Carrollton, Mo. 
Son of A. C. and Eliza A. (Erickson) Black- 
well. Educated in the country schools, and 
Wyman's University, St. Louis, Mo. Pater- 
nal grandfather was with Washington at 
Valley Forge, and two brothers were killed 
in the Confederate army. In 1872 he took 
up his residence in New Mexico, where he 
resided until 1901, returning in that year to 
St. Louis, Mo. He still has large mercantile 
and banking interests in New Mexico. Direc- 
tor in the Bank of Commerce, Albuquerque, 
and San Miguel National Bank, of Las 
Vegas, N. M. In 1901 the Blackwell-Wie- 
landy Book & Stationery Company was or- 
ganized, and incorporated the same year, at 
which time he was elected president of the 
corporation, which is composed of the fol- 
lowing individuals: A. M. Blackwell, presi- 
dent; P. J. Wielandy, vice-president; Eu- 
gene Pettus, treasurer, and Celsus Orear, 
secretary. The firm is a leading wholesale 
book and stationery house of St. Louis. 

Mr. Blackwell has been successful in the 
various enterprises in which he has been in- 
terested. He is a member of the St. Louis 
and Mercantile clubs. In religious belief he 
is a Presbyterian, and independent in politics. 
Married, in 1877, in Carrollton, Mo., to Miss 
Amanda Wilcoxson. Ghildren: Martha, 



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Agnes, Arthur, Jane and Charles Blackwell. 
Business address, 716 Washington avenue; 
residence address, 4308 McPherson avenue, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



ALBERT WILLIS HIGGINS. 

Albert Willis Higgins. Mechanical engi- 
neer. Born May 31, 1880, in Boston, Mass. 
Son of Charles W. and Mary Vail (Can- 
field) Higgins. He was educated in the 
Newton public schools, and Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology. 1901. He is a de- 
scendant from the noted families of Vail and 
Canfield, of New Jersey. He began his busi- 
ness career as assistant to the chief engineer 
of Sayles Bleacheries, Salesville, R. I., and 
later as superintending engineer of the Na- 
tional Ammonia Company, St. Louis. Mo. 
In 1904 he became a member of the firm of 
E. H. Abadie & Company, composed of E. 
H. Abadie and A. W. Higgins. In religious 
belief he is a Congregationalist, and is a 
member of the American Chemical Society 
and Technolog}^ Club, of Boston, Mass. He 
was married, in 1903, at Auburndale, Mass., 
to Miss Grace M. Adams. Business address, 
Bank of Commerce building. St. Louis, 
]\Iissouri. 



JOHN RICHARD WILLIAMS. 

John Richard Williams. President of the 
Libby-Williams Paper Company. Born 
June 19, 1839, in Baltimore, Md. Son of 
Richard and Martha (Loane) Williams. 
Educated in the public schools of Baltimore ; 
Jones' Commercial College, St. Louis, Mo. 
He is a member of the firm of Libby-Wil- 



liams Paper Company, composed of John 
Richard Williams, president; James M. Bull, 
treasurer; William IMcCargo, secretary. In- 
corporated in 1884; established, 1861. In 
early life his choice was in the mercantile 
business, in which he had been engaged up 
to the time he entered the Libby-Williams 
Paper Company. 

Mr. Williams is a member of the Mercan- 
tile Club ; in religious matters he is a Unita- 
rian, in politics a Republican. Member of 
the National Guard of [Missouri, 1861 to 
1865. Married, in 1863, in St. Louis, Mo., 
to Miss Mary E. Wallace . Children : Annie, 
Carrie and John R. Williams. Business ad- 
dress, 419-21 North Second street; residence 
address, 5520 Clemens avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



ALBERT MOHR OTT. 

Albert Mohr Ott. President of the 
Chrisman Sawyer Banking Company. Born 
January 4, 1865. in Independence, Mo. Son 
of Christian and Louise (Mohr) Ott. Edu- 
cated in the Kemper Family school, Boon- 
ville, Mo., class of 1882; Westminster Col- 
lege, Fulton, Mo., 1884; law department of 
the Unixersity of Pennsylvania, class of 
1887, and began practice that year and is 
now one of the prominent members of the 
Jackson county bar. He has been connected 
with the Chrisman-Sawyer Banking Com- 
pany since 1895 ! ^^'^^ made second vice-pres- 
ident in January, 1904, and president in Jan- 
uar}% 1905. The Chrisman-Sawyer Banking 
Company has the following officials : Albert 
M. Ott. president; John R. Cogswell, vice- 
president ; Thomas C. Sawyer, second vice- 
president; Isaac M. Rogers, cashier. Incor- 
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Jackson county and one of tlie oldest in the 
state. 

Mr. Ott is a Knight Templar and be- 
longs to Palestine Commandery. Was city 
councellor of Independence, 1892 to 1894; 
assistant prosecuting attorney of Jackson 
county, 1894 to 1896; secretary Jackson 
County Democratic Central Committee. Bus- 
iness address, Independence, Mo., residence 
address, 804 North Main street. 



JAMES WILLIAM GOODBAR. 

James William Goodbar. Second vice- 
president of the Boogher-Force-Goodbar 
Hat Company. Born May 17, 1850, in Liv- 
ingston, Tenn. Son of Andrew Jackson 
and Susan J. (Cullom) Goodbar. The 
grandfather of Alvin Cullom was a member 
of Congress many years prior to the Civil 
war from the state of Tennessee, afterwards 
circuit judge of the Court of Overton county, 
Tenn. 

James W. obtained a collegiate education 
at Sparta, Tenn. Early in his career Mr. 
Goodbar was introduced to mercantile life, 
the pursuit he decided to adopt, and if expe- 
rience and attention to the business are im- 
portant factors to the road to success, we 
Avill not be surprised in reviewing some 
points of the life career of James W. Good- 
bar. Previous to entering the wholesale hat 
business, he began as salesman, in 1867, at 
the age of seventeen years, in the wholesale 
shoe and hat business at Nashville, Tenn. 
In 1872 he organized the firm of Goodbar, 
White & Co., wholesale hats. In 1877 or- 
ganized the firm of Linsay, Goodbar & Co., 
Memphis, Tenn. In 1882, Goodbar, White 
& Co., St. Louis; afterwards Scott, Force & 



Goodbar Hat Company, of which he was 
vice-president; and later, in 1S88, the firm 
was incorporated under the firm name of 
Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Company. 
He is prominent in the Masonic order, a 
member of the Blue Lodge, A. F. & A. M., 
Chapter and Knights Templar. In religious 
belief he is a Methodist, and Democrat in 
politics. 

Mr. Goodbar was married, January 22, 
1875, at Nashville, Tenn., to Miss Lucy L. 
Terrass. Children : One son, Terrass, who 
died in infancy, and Mrs. Dr. H. R. Barton. 
Business address, 918 Washington avenue; 
residence address, 5643 Gates avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES FERDINAND KRONE. 

Charles Ferdinand Krone. Among the 
younger men of the St. Louis bar, who began 
the practice of his profession in 1889, '" the 
city of St. Louis, is Charles Ferdinand 
Krone, having previously prepared himself 
by reading law with Andrew M. Sullivan, 
Esq., and was admitted to the bar in St. 
Louis in 1887. 

Mr. Krone was born in St. Louis, Mo., 
December 15, 1863, a son of Charles Augus- 
tin and Katherine (Easier) Krone. Edu- 
cated in the St. Louis High School and the 
Missouri State University, leaving the latter 
institution in 1882. The honor has been con- 
ferred upon him of electing him president of 
the St. Louis Alumni Association of the Mis- 
souri State University. From 1896 to 1900 
he was assistant circuit attorney of the city 
of St. Louis. He is now in possession of a 
large growing practice, and he takes a great 
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historical and literary studies. His chief 
practice is corporation law, though few have 
had as varied an experience at the bar both 
in civil and criminal matters. In religious 
belief he is independent. In politics he is a 
Republican. He was married June 6, 1898, 
in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Virginia Edith 
Holly. Two children have been born, Mada- 
line Cecelia and Lawrence Krone. Business 
address, 610 Wainwright building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



address, 818 to 824 Washington avenue ; res- 
idence address, 4347 Delmar avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



FREDERICK J. LANGENBERG. 

Frederick J. Langenberg. Secretary' and 
treasurer of the Gauss-Langenberg Hat 
Company. Born July 31, 1851, in Gascon- 
ade county. Mo. Son of Casper H. and 
Elizabeth (Koch) Langenberg. He ac- 
quired his education in the state of Missouri, 
and attended private schools in that state 
from 1857 to i860; public schools, 1861 to 
1867; Bryant & Stratton's Business College, 
St. Louis, 1867. He is a member of the in- 
corporated company, Gauss-Langenberg Hat 
Company, and since 1885 has been its secre- 
tary and treasurer. Mr. Langenberg is 
prominent in a social way as well as business. 
He is a member of the Mercantile Club, of 
St. Louis, Mo.; Business Men's League, 
Interstate Merchants' Association; National 
Credit Men's Association. In politics he 
affiliates with the Republican party, gener- 
ally, but sometimes independent in his polit- 
ical choice. In religious belief he is a Pres- 
byterian. 

Mr. Langenberg was married. Novem- 
ber 10, 1875, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Anna 
Tenbroek. Children : Edna, Roy, Grace, 
Lois, and one deceased, Bessie. Business 



HOWARD BOOGHER. ' 

Howard Boogher, merchant and lawyer, 
was born in St. Louis, Mo., January 2, 1876, 
a son of Jesse L. and Sarah Jane (Goodfel- 
low) Boogher. Was educated in the public 
and high schools of St. Louis ; graduated 
from Smith Academy, 1894; took academic 
and law course at Vanderbilt University, 
Nashville, Tenn., graduating in 1898 with 
the degree of LL. B. October i, 1898, 
started the practice of law as a member of 
the firm of Boogher & Williams, which sep- 
arated June I, 1900. October i, 1900, 
changed the firm to Boogher & Pierce ; Jan- 
uary I, 1 901, was changed to Webb, Boogher 
& Pierce; later. Pierce, Boogher & Davis. 
The firm is composed of the following gen- 
tlemen : Howard Boogher, Stanley D. Pierce 
and Martin Davis. The mercantile firm of 
which Mr. Boogher is a member is Boogher, 
Force & Goodbar, wholesale hats, caps and 
gloves. This firm was established in 1898. 
He is secretary and director of the Gould 
Directory Company; treasurer and director 
of the Latin- American Club; member of the 
St. Louis (Mo.) Athletic Club; St. Louis 
Hamilton Republican Club; Latin American 
Club, and the Million Club; also Civic 
Improvement League and Business Men's 
League. He is a member of the Methodist 
Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Boogher's 
ancestry are renowned in both England and 
Scotland. 

In Hillsboro, 111., October 31. 1901, Mr. 
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married. They have one son, Lane Boogher. 
Business address, 914 Washington avenue; 
residence address, 5206 Morgan street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



ALBERT H. HAESELER. 

Albert H. Haeseler. Contractor and 
builder. Born September 5, 1848, in Ger- 
many. Son of Albert H. and Louisa 
(Stremel) Haeseler. He was educated in 
the public schools of Germany. In the be- 
ginning of his career he was an apprentice 
of his father in Germany, and traveled some 
three years working at the builders' trade, 
and came to America in 1877. Found em- 
ployment in a planing mill, in which capacity 
he served some eight years, then removed to 
Colorado and New Mexico; in 1881 re- 
turned to St. Louis, and engaged in business 
for himself in 1882, as contractor and 
builder. He is a member of the St. Louis 
Gymnastic Society, and is president of same, 
and a member of the A. F. & A. M. and L 
O. O. F. In religious belief he is a Protest- 
ant, and in politics is a Republican. 

Mr. Haeseler was married, in June, 
1893, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Bertha 
Steiner. Two children have been born, Ella 
and Irma Haeseler. Business address, 612 
Wainwright building; residence address, 
3802 Florissant avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JESSE L. BOOGHER. 

Jesse L. Boogher. President of the 
Boogher. Force & Goodbar Hat Company. 
Born March 8, 1833, in Mt. Pleasant, Fred- 



erick county, Md. Son of Nicholas and 
Rebecca D. (Coomes) Boogher. He ac- 
quired his education in the common schools 
of Mt. Pleasant, Md. Mr. Boogher not 
only traces his ancestry to Revolutionary 
people on both sides, but goes further back. 
He comes from an old English family named 
Pierrepont. The wife of Mr. Boogher 
traces her ancestry back to the famous Gor- 
dons, of Scotland. 

Mr. Boogher began his career as a clerk 
in the mercantile business when he was 
eighteen years old. He engaged in Freder- 
ick City, and Duffields Station, Va. He re- 
moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1854, and since 
that time has been connected with many 
prominent business enterprises; of two of 
them he has been the chief head, and under 
his able direction and business management 
and experience, all, without an exception, 
have been prosperous. In 1878 he organized 
the dry goods house of Wear, Boogher Dry 
Goods Company; in 1898, Boogher, Force 
& Goodbar Hat Company. He has a large 
interest in the following firms : Pomroy & 
Benton Dry Goods Company; Henry Bell & 
Son; J. H. Wear, Boogher & Co. He is 
president of the following corporations : 
Wear & Boogher Dry Goods Company , and 
Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Company. 
In 1878 he organized the dry goods house of 
Wear & Boogher Dry Goods Company; in 
1898 Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Com- 
pany. He is a member of the Mercantile 
Club and the Methodist Club, of St. Louis, 
Mo. In religious belief he is a Methodist, 
and is independent in politics, generally 
Democratic. 

Mr. Boogher was married, March 10, 
1866. in St. Louis, Mo., to Sarah Jane, 
daughter of D. F. Goodfellow. Children : 
Jesse, Leland, Howard, Walter C, Sarah 



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Alberta, now Mrs. Glen C. Hill. Business 
address, 916 Washington avenue; residence 
address, 4415 Pine boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



EDWARD W. STIMSON. 

Edward W. Stimson, vice-president of 
the Georgia-Stimson Furniture & Carpet 
Company. He began his business career as 
a clerk in a carpet store in Columbus, O. ; 
then with John Shillito Company, Cincin- 
nati, O., then with J. Kennard & Sons Car- 
pet Company, St. Louis, Mo., for sixteen 
years, before organizing the Georgia-Stim- 
son Furniture & Carpet Company, in 1903. 
He was married December 12, 1894, at De- 
Soto, Mo., to Miss Florence Cunningham, 
now deceased. Business address 616-18 
Washington avenue; residence address, 395 
Botanical avenue. 



WILLIAM N. McCOXKIN. 

William N. McConkin. Wholesale hat- 
ter. Born June 10, 1863, in Gray's Summit, 
Mo. Son of Charles A. and Mary F. 
(North) ]\IcConkin. Mr. McConkin may 
be ranked as one of the younger representa- 
tive business men in St. Louis. He began 
his business career as an office boy in the hat 
business ; then stock clerk, bookkeeper, trav- 
eling salesman and buyer. Then became in- 
terested in the present corporation of Mc- 
Conkin-Luttmer Hat Co., incorporated 
in 1905, and at the date of its incorporation 
became president. He wzs one of the orig- 
inal organizers of the McConkin-Luttmer 
Hat Company, composed of the following 



named individuals : William N. McConkin, 
William H. Luttmer, August Long and 
Frank C. Davidson, and they do an extensive 
business over a large scope of territory, con- 
tiguous to the St. Louis market, and through- 
out the entire southwest. In politics he is a 
Democrat. He is a member of the Mercan- 
tile Club. 

Mr. McConkin was married October 26, 
1886, in St. Louis, to Miss Lena Vaughan. 
To this union one child has been born, Mil- 
dred N. McConkin. Business address, 412 
North Twelfth street; residence address, 
3923 West Belle Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JAMES Y. PLAYER. 

James Y. Player. Comptroller of the 
city of St. Louis. Born in Nashville, Tenn., 
September 14, 1851. Son of Thomson Tre- 
zevant and Emma (Yeatman) Player. Was 
educated in the schools of Nashville, in vari- 
ous preparatory schools in the east, and in 
the Yale scientific schools. Subsequent to 
his graduation he came to St. Louis where he 
was, for a year and a half, employed in the 
old Merchants' Bank, leaving this position 
for one in Pennsylvania. During the three 
years he was in Philadelphia he was first in 
the employ of a brokerage firm, and later 
acted as private secretary to George De B. 
Keim, who was then general solicitor of the 
Reading Railway Company. In 1875 Mr. 
Player returned to St. Louis, and has since 
been a resident there, taking a very promi- 
nent part in the educational activities of the 
city. For a period of twenty-two years he 
was a member of the board of education, 
being employed as secretary to the superin- 
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teen years, and for seven years as secretary 
and treasurer of the board. Great faithful- 
ness and industry characterized his career in 
this hne, as in all in which he has been en- 
gaged. For three years thereafter Mr. 
Player turned his attention to the real estate 
business, and in 1901 became elected to the 
office of comptroller of the city for a term 
of four years, which place he is filling at the 
present time. In politics he is a Democrat, 
and an ardent supporter of its principles. 

March 7, 1877, Mr. Player was married 
to Miss Susan S. Polk, of Tennessee. They 
have three sons and two daughters. Busi- 
ness address. City Hall building, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



ROBERT CARTER POWELL. 

Robert Carter Powell. Lawyer. Born 
August 18, 1879, ii^ St. Charles, Mo., son of 
Judge John T. and Anna (Nelson) Powell. 
He was educated in the St. Charles, Mo., 
common schools, St. Louis, Mo., high 
school, and Washington University, gradu- 
ating in the class of June, 1903, with the de- 
gree of LL. B. 

Of his noted ancestors are President 
William Nelson (president of the "Domin- 
ion of Virginia"), Governor Thomas Nelson 
(signer of the Declaration of Independence, 
Governor of the State of Virginia, and ma- 
jor general in the American Revolution), 
Secretary Thomas Nelson (secretary of the 
"Colonial Council of Virginia"), and Col- 
onel William Nelson, Captain Thomas Nel- 
son and I\Iajor John Nelson (officers in the 
American Revolution, serving immediately 
under George Washington). 

Mr. Powell is a native born Missourian, 
and began to practice soon after his gradu- 



ation from the law school and has practiced 
his profession in St. Louis successfully ever 
since. In religious belief he is an Episco- 
palian and Democratic in politics. He was 
married in 1904 in Homer, III. to Miss Har- 
riet Adele Terry. Office, Laclede building, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES ALFRED HOUTS. 

Charles Alfred Houts. Lawyer. Born 
December 13, 1868, at Warrensburg, Mo., 
son of G. Will and Annie (Duffield) Houts, 
educated in Warrensburg public schools, at 
Warrensburg Normal School and entered 
Depauw University, Greencastle, Ind., in 
1887, graduated in the class of 1891 with the 
degree of A. M. His father was a lieuten- 
ant in the Missouri State Militia and served 
four years. He is a member of the legal 
firm of Johnson, Houts, Marlatt & Hawes, 
composed of the following members, George 
S. Johnson, Charles A. Houts, Hebert R. 
Marlatt and Harry B. Hawes. The firm was 
established in 1895 and transacts a large 
legal business in the Federal and State 
Courts. Mr. Houts began his business ca- 
reer in the law department of Missouri, Kan- 
sas & Texas Railroad Company, of St. 
Louis, Missouri. Admitted to the bar in 
1892, in the law department of the M. K. 
& T. Railway from 1892 to 1895, partner- 
ship formed in 1895. In 1897 Mr. INIarlatt 
was admitted to the firm. In 1898 Mr. 
Hawes was admitted to the firm. Mr. 
Houts is a member of the Methodist Epis- 
copal Church, is a Republican in politics, a 
member of the Missouri Athletic Club and 
Algonquin Golf Club. Married April 8, 
1896, at Indianapolis, Ind., to Miss Eleanor 



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Wright. Children, Josephine Beverly Houts, 
Henry ^^'right Houts. Business address, 
Carleton building, St. Louis, Mo.; residence 
address, Webster Groves, Missouri. 



JOHN STEELE FRANCISCO. 

John Steele Francisco. Lawyer. Born 
August 7, 1855, in Saline County, Mo. Son 
of Andrew and Joann (Christy) Francisco. 
Educated in Warrensburg State Normal. 
Graduated in 1879, degree A. B., Univer- 
sity of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Law Depart- 
ment. Graduated 188 1, LL. B. 'Mr. Francis- 
co began his career as a merchant ; admitted 
to the bar, 1880; commenced practice in But- 
ler, Mo., 1 88 1, and is a member of the law 
firm of Francisco & Clark, composed of 
John S. Francisco and Harry C. Clark. Es- 
tablished January i, 1900. He was judge of 
Probate, Bates county, Mo., 1887 to 1891 ; 
mayor of Butler, Mo. 1890 to 1898. Mem- 
ber of the Butler, Mo., school board for si.x 
years. He belongs to the A. F. and A. M., 
and affiliates with the Democratic party. 
Married Dec. 30, 1898, in Butler, Mo., to 
Miss Mary B. Henro. Children, Jack and 
Jenkins Francisco. Business and residence 
address, Butler, Missouri. 



WARWICK MASSEY HOUGH. 

Warwick Massey Hough. Lawyer. Born 
September 29, 1862, in Columbus, Miss., 
son of Judge Warwick and Nina E. (Mas- 
sey) Hough. His early education was ob- 
tained in the public schools of Kansas City, 
and his collegiate education at St. Louis Un- 



iversity, and Central College, of Fayette, 
^lo. After acquiring his education he be- 
came an assistant in clerk's office of the Su- 
preme Court of Missouri, where he assisted 
in preparing the opinions of the court for the 
official reporter. In 1886 he was admitted 
to practice in the Circuit Court of St. Louis. 
During the latter part of Cleveland's admin- 
istration he was assistant United States dis- 
trict attorney for the Eastern Division of 
the Eastern District of Missouri. He be- 
came conversant with the Internal Revenue 
Laws of the United States to which he gave 
special attention in his practice, and has 
achieved marked distinction in this line of 
professional work. In politics he has always 
been a Democrat, advocating bimetalism, 
free trade and the reserved rights of the 
states in opposition to centralization of 
power. October 22, 1890, Mr. Hough was 
married to Miss Elizabeth Gage at Water- 
loo, la. Business address, 900 Rialto build- 
ing, St. Louis, Mo. 



LEON J. SCHWAB. 

Leon J. Schwab. Vice-president of the 
Schwab Clothing Company. Born in 1863, 
at West Chester, Pa. Son of Jacob and 
Amelia Schwab. Educated in the public 
schools of New York. He is a member of 
the Schwab Clothing Company, composed 
of the following officials. Max Schwab, pres- 
ident ; Leon J. Schwab, vice-president ; Isaac 
X. Schwab, secretary and treasurer. The 
firm does an extensive jobbing business in 
all kinds of clothing and was established 
about 1867. Previous to his connection with 
the clothing business, he was engaged in tai- 
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year, then he entered the above incorporated 
company, first as a clerk, and has steadily 
worked his way up to his present position. 
Mr. Schwab is a member of the Columbian 
Club, Mercantile Club, Glen Echo Club, and 
a member of the Masonic fraternity. In re- 
ligious belief he is an Israelite and in poli- 
tics he is a Republican. Married October 25, 
1892, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Rachel Stix. 
Children, James L., William S., Lee J., Alice 
R. Schwab. Business address, 1132-38 
Washington avenue; residence address, 5106 
Washington avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANKLIN FERRISS. 

Franklin Ferriss. Lawyer and jurist. 
Born Sept. 22, 1849, in Clinton county. New 
York, son of Charles and Mercy (Macom- 
ber) Ferris. He was graduated from Cor- 
nell University, Ithaca, New York, in the 
class of 1873 ^"*i immediately afterward 
came to St. Louis where he began the study 
of law. Entering the St. Louis Law School, 
he took the degree of bachelor of laws from 
that institution, in 1875, ^"d t^^" began the 
practice of his profession in this city, form- 
ing a partnership with Mr. Rowell, the new 
firm becoming Rowell & Ferriss, and gained 
the reputation as one of the leading law 
firms of the West. As a practitioner Mr. 
Ferriss distinguished himself for his com- 
prehensive knowledge of the law and pre- 
cedents, his analytical powers and the fa- 
cility with which he applied the law to prac- 
tical business afifairs. A student of the law, 
he has also been a student of commercial 
problems, and some years since, when the 
tariff law known as the "McKinley Law" 
went into effect, a large share of the legal 



business growing out of the application of 
this law to the collections of customs in St. 
Louis was intrusted to him as attorney for 
one of the large customs brokerage firms of 
this city. While still practicing law he also 
represented many defendants in a noted 
series of cases, known as "Railway Condem- 
nation Suits," and was remarkably success- 
ful in the conduct of this litigation. In 
1893, li^ ^^'^s elected a member of the city 
council ; when the council of that year was 
organized he was elected vice-president, and 
throughout the term of service was recog- 
nized as one of the ablest and most efficient 
of the city legislators. He was general coun- 
sellor for the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
tion. In the fall of 1898 he was nominated 
on the Republican ticket for judge of the cir- 
cuit court of St. Louis, and at the ensuing 
election was chosen to that office, where he 
has proven himself a worthy successor to 
the able men who have graced that position. 
Judge Ferriss married Miss Elizabeth H. 
Simon, of St. Louis. Their children are 
Henry T., Margery and Hugh Ferriss. Busi- 
ness address 221 N. Fourth street: residence 
address 5828 Cabanna avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CLARENCE STEUBEN PALMER. 

Clarence Steuben Palmer. Lawyer. Born 
January 27, 1857, in Steadway, Chautauqua 
county, New York. Son of Andrew Jackson 
and Jane (Pringle) Palmer and he is a de- 
scendant of Walter Palmer, who emigrated 
to this country in 1629. Clarence S. re- 
ceived his early education in the country 
district schools and attended the high schools 
at Mayville and Westfield, New York. He 
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1879, receiving the second honors of his 
his class. His boyhood days were spent on 
a farm except when away from school. He 
read law under the tutorship of the Hon. 
Walter L. Sessions of Panama, New York, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1881 in that 
state. Removed to Kansas City in 1885. In 
1894, was appointed assistant city counsel- 
lor by Frank F. Rozzell, serving one term. 
He has devoted much time and attention to 
municipal and corporation law. In 1896, he 
supported the Democratic candidate who 
opposed the election of Mr. Bryan for pres- 
ident, voting for Palmer and Buckner. He 
is a member of the First Congregational 
Church of Kansas City and is identified w-ith 
the Masonic Order. The Kansas City Chap- 
ter of the Sons of the Revolution, and the 
Theta Delta Chi and the Phi Beta Kappa, — 
college fraternities. Mr. Palmer was mar- 
ried July 28, 1886, to Julia M. St. John, 
daughter of the Rev. I. I. and Sarah F. St. 
John of Salem, Ind. The living children of 
Mr. and Mrs. Palmer are Clarence Foster 
and Edward Pringle. Business adress, 410 
Heist building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



SHEPARD BARCLAY. 

Shepard Barclay, lawyer and ex-judge, 
grandson of Capt. Elihu H. Shepard (one 
of the pioneer American settlers), was born 
in St. Louis November 3, 1847. Educated 
in the public schools and high school of St. 
Louis, and in St. Louis University, where he 
took the classical couse, being graduated in 
1867. He then matriculated at the Univer- 
sity of Virginia, where, under the tutelege 
of Prof. John B. Minor, he was graduated in 
the law school and in medical jurisprudence. 



In 1869 he went abroad, remaining nearly 
three years studying in Paris and Berlin. In 
the latter city he was a pupil of Drs. Gneist 
and Bruns at the university. In 1872 he 
returned to St. Louis and began the practice 
of his profession, engaging also in his early 
days as editorial writer on one of the daily 
newspapers. In 1873 ^''^ formed a law part- 
nership with Hon. Wm. C. Marshall which 
continued nine years, until his election as 
circuit judge in 1882. After six years serv- 
ice in that office he was elected judge of the 
Supreme court, and his opinions there are 
reported from 97 Missouri to 146 Alissouri, 
official reports. In 1897 Judge Barclay was 
chosen chief justice by his associates, and in 
June of that year received the honorary de- 
gree of Doctor of Laws from the University 
of IMissouri. On February i, 1898, Judge 
Barclay resigned to resume his practice in 
St. Louis. After some three years at the 
bar Judge Barclay was appointed by Gov- 
ernor Dockery judge of the St. Louis Court 
of Appeals,upon the resignation of Judge 
Bond, but declined to permit his name to be 
submitted for re-nomination at the close of 
his term. He resumed practice in January, 
1903, in conjunction with Mr. Thomas T. 
Fauntleroy. 

Judge Barclay has for several years con- 
ducted a law class of business men as part 
of the educational department of the Y. M. 
C. A., of St. Louis, and he is also professor 
of medical jurisprudence in the medical de- 
partment of the St. Louis University ( Mar- 
ion-Sims-Beaumont medical college) . Before 
going on the bench, Judge Barclay was 
for several years secretary of the IMissouri 
Historical Society. In 1882 he was elected 
secretary of the Conference of Judges of 
Missouri, which office he held for fifteen 
years, and he has also filled, for a long period. 





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the office of vice-president from Missouri in 
the American Bar Association. 

Judge Barclay was married in 1873, to 
Miss Anderson, daughter of the late Hon. 
Charles R. Anderson, an active citizen and 
at one time an alderman of St. Louis. Busi- 
ness address, 520 Olive street; residence, 
3844 Delmar boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ARCHIE E. WATSON. 

Archie E. Watson. Lawyer. Born No- 
vember 21, 1863, in Alliance, Ohio, son of 
James and Mary (Slaven) Watson. He at- 
tended the Kansas State University about 
four years, graduated in the law department 
of the University of Michigan in June, 1890. 
Entered the practice of law at Kansas City, 
Kans., in June, 1890, as a member of the 
firm of McGrew, Watson & Watson, con- 
tinued there in same firm until April i, 
1905. Then came to St. Louis, Mo., and is 
at present engaged in practice of the profes- 
sion and has charge of the liability depart- 
ment of the Aetna Life Insurance Company. 
He is a member of the Elks and is a Republi- 
can in politics. Business address, 316 Se- 
curity building; residence address, 5524 
Maple avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY ALEXANDER HAMILTON. 

Henry Alexander Hamilton. Lawyer. 
Born February i, 1877, in St. Louis, Mo., 
son of Alexander and Alary (Wiegand) 
Hamilton. Educated in the St. Louis public, 
grammar and high schools, and graduated in 
the law department of Washington Univer- 

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sity, St. Louis, Mo., June 12, 1898. Studied 
law and was admitted to the bar June 16, 
1898, and has continued in the practice con- 
tinuously since that time. He is vice-presi- 
dent and director of the American Pattern 
and Machinery Company, secretary and di- 
rector of the Triangle Realty Company, and 
is a member of the board of directors of the 
Hiram Lloyd Building and Construction 
Company. He is a member of the Mercan- 
tile Club, Missouri Athletic Club and Inde- 
pendent Order of Odd Fellows. In politics 
he is Republican, and in religious belief an 
Episcopalian. Business address 705-706 
Roe building; residence address 2329 St. 
Louis avenue. 



MRS. ELIZABETH REES JACKSON. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Rees Jackson. Educator 
and manager of the New Mexico Educa- 
tional Exhibit Department, World's Fair. 
Born in Randolph County, Sept. 20, i860. 
Daughter of Michael Rees and Jureter 
(Moores) Jackson. Educated in the Mo- 
berly. Mo., public and high schools (diplo- 
ma conferred in both). C. L. S. C. (diplo- 
ma conferred). Summer School at Long 
Beach, Cal., and various institutes, president 
of C. L. S. C. in Silver City, N. M. Con- 
ducted a two months Summer Normal 
at Roswell, N. M., member of the examin- 
ing board of Grant County, N. M. ; ten 
years director for New Mexico at the Na- 
tional Educational Association. Successful 
as an educator she is also identified with the 
business interests of Moberly, Mo. She is 
the owner of one-half interest in the Red 
Front drug store and a partner in the same, 
established in 1889. Mrs. Jackson has de- 



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scended from an honorable pioneer family 
of Missouri and claims through her mother 
(now surviving) Revolutionary honors. Ma- 
ternal great-grandfather, Michael Moores, 
fought seven years in the Revolutionary 
war, took part in the battles of Brandywine 
and Stonypoint. Mrs. Jackson holds a life 
certificate to teach in New Mexico and after 
the death of her husband she took up her 
permanent residence in Moberly, Mo. She 
was married September 20, 1883, in Mo- 
berly, Mo., to Wilbur Louis Jackson. Busi- 
ness address, 103 N. Fourth St., Moberly, 
Missouri. 



HERMAN TUHOLSKE, M. D. 

Herman Tuholske, M. D. Born in 
Berlin, Prussia, March 27, 1848, son of 
Newman and Johanna (Amfeld) Tuholske. 
His education was acquired in the Berlin 
Gymnasium and soon after leaving that insti- 
tution came to America, locating in St. 
Louis; he entered upon the study of medi- 
cine and in 1870 was graduated from the 
Missouri Medical College. He then re- 
turned to Europe and took a post-graduate 
course in the schools and hospitals of Vienna, 
Berlin, London and Paris, where he had the 
advantages of chemical study and actual 
contact with the treatment of diseases. Some 
time later he returned to St. Louis and in 
1871 was appointed physician to the city 
dispensary. This position he held for five 
years and during that time introduced sev- 
eral reforms that greatly enhanced the use- 
fulness of the institution. In 1873, during 
the smallpox epidemic, he examined twenty- 
five hundred smallpox patients and assigned 
them to different hospitals. He left this in 
1876 to give his entire time to his own pa- 



tients. In 1873 he was made professor and 
demonstrator of anatomy in the Missouri 
Medical College, a position he held for ten 
years and then became professor of surgery 
in the same school. In 1882 in company with 
other eminent physicians he planned and es- 
tablished the St. Louis Post Graduate School 
and Hospital. In 1890 he founded the St. 
Louis Surgical and Gynecological Hospital. 
He was influential in having the Missouri 
board of health adopt the higher standard of 
professional qualifications for the practice of 
medicine. He is surgeon of the Post Grad- 
uate Hospital ; surgeon-in-chief to the St. 
Louis Jewish Hospital ; one of the surgeons 
to the Martha Parson Free Hospital; con- 
sulting surgeon to the city hospital, the Fe- 
male Hospital and the city dispensary. Was 
for several years surgeon of the First Regi- 
ment of the Missouri National Guard with 
the rank of major. He is a member of the 
American Medical Association, the South- 
ern Surgical and Gynecological Society, the 
St. Louis Medical Society. He was also 
founder of the International Gynecological 
Society. Business address, 406 N. Jefferson 
avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN MIDDLETON HAYS. 

John Middleton Hays. Proprietor Hill's 
Business College. Born July 11, 1857, near 
Butler, Bates County, Mo. Son of Thomas 
Columbus and Elvina Catherine (Wolf) 
Hays. Educated at Georgetown Seminary, 
graduating in 1873, at Deardopp Private 
School, 1875. He began his private career 
as a teacher in the public school at the age of 
seventeen years, then a clerk in a store, then 
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twenty years as clerk and stenographer, then 
became a teacher of a night school, then 
opened a day school. Mr. Hays began at his 
own home with but a few pupils, teacliing at 
night, but following railroading in day time. 
January i, 1900, he opened a regular day 
school with five day pupils ; now has over 
400 pupils enrolled and one of the largest 
and best equipped schools in the state. He is 
a member of the National Shorthand Asso- 
ciation, Business College Association, Mod- 
ern Woodmen of the World, Royal Ar- 
canum, Banker's Fraternal Association. He 
is a Congregationalist in religious belief. Re- 
publican in politics. He is president and 
proprietor of Hill's Business College, Se- 
dalia. Mo., educating young people for 
bookkeepers, clerks, stenographers, etc. 
Married October 15, 1891, to Miss Rose 
Challacombe. Children, Fern Hartwell 
Challacombe and Corinne Hays. Business 
address, corner of Sixth and Ohio streets; 
residence address, 15 10 S. Kentucky street, 
Sedalia, Missouri. 



WILLIAM KINGSBURY ROYCE. 

William Kingsbury Royce, Merchant. 
Born Feb. 4, 1846, at Lafayette Grove, Ogle 
county. 111., the son of Norton B., a native 
of Ohio; the mother's maiden name was 
Miss Emma Dexter, a native of New York. 
The education of William K. was acquired 
in the public and high school of Janesville, 
Wis. The students, of which he was one, or- 
ganized a company, which volunteered its 
services to the government. They elected one 
of the professors a captain, and the com- 
pany was mustered into the service as a part 
of the Fortieth Wisconsin Volunteer Infan- 



try in the last year of the Civil war, and they 
were assigned to the Army of the Missis- 
sippi, where William K. served until the close 
of the struggle. After his return from serv- 
ice he removed with his parents to Austin, 
Cass county, Mo., where he engaged in the 
mercantile business with his father. In 
1867 he graduated at Eastman's Business 
College, in Chicago, 111. In 1869 he bought 
the mercantile establishment of his father, 
which he conducted for fifteen years, and 
while operating this business he became in- 
terested in the purchase of a large body of 
land, and spent two years on a farm close 
to Austin. He laid out and organized the 
town of Rich Hill, Mo., where he also en- 
gaged extensively in the mercantile business 
at that place. To Mr. Royce is due the 
credit of active participation in the promo- 
tion of several of the railways of Missouri. 
He was one of the first to suggest the organ- 
ization of the Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad, 
Rich Hill being on the line of that road, 
and where he located for a time. Mr. Royce 
was interested in securing the right of way 
for the branch of the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
road, extending from Rich Hill to Fort 
Scott. He is still the owner of a large 
amount of valuable land near Rich Hill, and 
a large number of town lots in that place. In 
January, 1900, he organized and incorpo- 
rated the New Century Mining Co., which 
owns valuable zinc property at Joplin, Mo., 
and of which company he is the president. 
He also owns valuable copper mines in Ari- 
zona, and a large tract of coal land near Rich 
Hill. Mr. Royce is a member of the Knights 
of Pythias, and the Woodmen of the World ; 
formerly a Republican, but since 1896 has 
affiliated with the Free Silver Democratic 
party, and supported William Jennings 
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county, Mo., to Miss Irene Nash, a native of 
Ohio. She died leaving one son, Ira, who is 
now manager of the Jones Dry Goods Mer- 
cantile Company. Business address, 507 
Main street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JOHN A. GUTHRIE. 

John A. Guthrie, President Southern 
Bank, Mexico, Mo. Born December 23, 
1839, in Guthrie, Callaway county, Mo. Son 
of Samuel T. and Sally (Philips) Guthrie. 
Educated in common schools and West- 
minster College, 1862 to 1864. His father 
was in the war of 1812; maternal ancestor's 
grand uncles were in the Revolutionary war. 
Mr. Guthrie began his career as a farm- 
er's boy, then a school teacher, then a stock 
dealer. In 1864 he made the trip overland 
across the plains with an ox train.. Mr. 
Guthrie is now, 1905, president and director 
of the Southern Bank of Mexico, Mo., which 
institution was incorporated in 1869. Organ- 
izers of the bank : C. H. Hardin, James Cal- 
laway, William Harper and W. M. Sims. 
Present officials are, John A. Guthrie, pres- 
ident ; C. F. Clark, vice-president, and A. D. 
Jackson, cashier. In the many years he has 
been connected with this institution he has 
thoroughly become familiar with all the de- 
tails of the banking business and has devoted 
a large portion of his time in the settlement 
of decedents' and guardians' estates and has 
been and is now officially connected with 
various church and educational institutions. 
He is treasurer of the State Missouri Board 
of State Missions and Sunday schools of the 
Missouri Baptist General Association (incor- 
porated) since 1878; treasurer of Hardin 
College, jMexico, ]\Io., since 18S2; treasurer 



of L. B. F. Association from 1876 to 1884; 
Audrain Baptist Association since 1884 and 
moderator of the same since 1892; a deacon 
in the IMissionary Baptist Church for 
thirty-five years and superintendent of the 
Sunday school for twenty-one years at the 
Mexico church. In politics he is a Democrat 
and was judge of the county court from 1884 
to 1890. Member of Hebron Lodge, A. F. 
& A. M., and Crusade Commandery No. 23 ; 
treasurer of latter for sixteen years. Mr. 
Guthrie has a family of six children as fol- 
lows : Martin B., John A., Rosamond, Will- 
iam F. (deceased), Francis F., and Charles 
H. Guthrie. Business and residence address, 
Mexico, Missouri. 



MAX SCHWAB. 



Max Schwab. President of the Schwab 
Clothing Co. Born July 12, 1847, '" Ger- 
many. Son of Solomon and Hannah Schwab. 
Educated in the common school of Germany. 
Among the successful mercantile busi- 
ness men and manufacturers of St. Louis, 
the name of Max Schwab stands prominent 
as a man who by well directed efforts has ac- 
complished much, not only in building up an 
immense trade but in the establishment he 
has erected for the manufacture of clothing. 
A view of the building suggests to us a per- 
fect factory where none but intelligent em- 
ployees can be seen, each operating their 
special part with the mechanism wdiich is re- 
quired in the manufacture of men's clothing. 
Max Schwab is an original man in the per- 
fect details of his business life, conscientious 
in dealing with his fellowmen and a dispo- 
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in this line in the many years he has done 
business. Mr. Schwab has steadily worked 
his way up to a high commercial standing 
from an alert and active salesman to his 
present position. He organized the company 
that we have just reviewed in the few brief 
points we have mentioned, and since 1879, 
the time he set foot on Missouri soil, has been 
successful in all of his efforts. The Schwab 
Clothing Company, of which Mr. Schwab 
is president, was incorporated in 1883, com- 
posed of Max Schwab, president; Leon J. 
Schwab, vice-president; Isaac N. Schwab, 
treasurer. In religious belief Mr. Schwab 
is Jewish and in politics he is Republican. 
Married in St. Louis, Mo., April 17, 1890, 
to Miss Bertha ]\Iarks. Business address, 
1 132 Washington; residence address, 4466 
Westminster Place. 



JACOB SPENCER MERRELL. 

Jacob Spencer Merrell (deceased), mer- 
chant, was born February 5, 1827, at West- 
moreland, Oneida county, N. Y., and died 
in St. Louis. His father, Jacob Merrell, was 
a direct descendant of that Jacob Merrell 
who came from England to this country with 
the Hartford colony. His mother, whose 
maiden name was Sylvia Spencer, was also 
of English extraction, and belonged to an old 
New England family. 

Reared on a farm, Jacob S. Merrell as- 
sisted, almost from his earliest recollection, 
in the farm work in summer, his attendance 
at school being limited to the winter months 
of each year. When he was fifteen years 
old he reached the conclusion that he could 
take care of himself and find more remunera- 
tive employment than working on the farm, 



but recognizing his father's claims upon him, 
and not wishing to deprive him of services 
which legally belonged to him, he "bought 
his time" for one hundred and fifty dollars, 
paying thirty dollars more for the clothes 
which he then had. Sixty dollars of this 
amount he paid from savings which he had 
accumulated, and the balance with his later 
earnings. After leaving home he first found 
employment on the Erie Canal, where he 
worked for nine dollars per month, until 
winter came on. He then returned to his 
lather's home and worked for his board, at 
tlie same time attending school, this term of 
schooling completing his education. In the 
spring following, he obtained employment 
in a country store at Oneida Lake, working 
there until July of the same year, when his 
employer failed, and he again had to return 
home. After assisting his father with the 
harvesting, he left home with ten dollars in 
his pocket, worked his passage on the Erie 
Canal to Buft'alo, and from there took deck 
passage on a lake steamer to Toledo, Ohio. 
Employment had been promised him at To- 
ledo, but he failed to obtain it, and, making 
the best of the situation, he engaged, for a 
time, in cutting cord wood in an oak forest, 
on land which is now part of the city of 
Toledo, and on the spot at present occupied 
by the Toledo High School building. From 
Toledo he went to Lexington, Ky., where 1 e 
obtained a situation with his uncle, who was 
engaged in the grocery business, and who 
paid him ten dollars per month. The fol- 
lowing winter his restless ambition prompted 
him to engage in a business venture of his 
own, and, hiring a horse, he traveled some 
months through the mountain region of 
Kentucky, buying furs. In the spring he 
marketed his furs at Cincinnati. Ohio, and 
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"Western Row" was for sale or rent. He 
purchased this establishment, chiefly on 
credit, and thus, at the age of eighteen years, 
embarked in the drug business, with which 
he was identified during the rest of his life. 
This enterprise prospered, and the founda- 
tion of his fortune was laid in Cincinnati. 
In 1853 he removed to St. Louis, purchased 
property on St. Charles street, between Fifth 
and Sixth streets, sold his Cincinnati busi- 
ness, and established himself in the drug 
trade in St. Louis. In 1857 he suffered the 
loss of twenty-eight thousand dollars, as the 
result of a disastrous fire, but with this excep- 
tion he enjoyed uninterrupted prosperity to 
the end of his life, and built up one of the 
largest wholesale drug houses in St. Louis. 
He made a careful study of all the phases of 
the drug trade, and was pharmaceutist, 
chemist and physician, as well as merchant. 
He was for several years president of the 
American Medical College of St. Louis, and 
helped to found that institution. The drug 
house which he founded is still one of the 
leading institutions of its kind in the west, 
and is now owned and managed by a corpo- 
ration, the officers of which are Cyrus P. 
Walbridge, president; Hubert S. Merrell, 
vice-president; Edward Bindschadler, secre- 
tary, and George R. Merrell, treasurer. In 
early life Mr. Merrell was a member of the 
Whig party, and later became a Republican 
in politics. During the Civil war his active 
and outspoken devotion to the Union created 
for him at the same time bitter enemies and 
steadfast friendships, but at that trying time 
he was unheedful of either praise or blame, 
and quietly pursued the course he had 
marked out for himself, laboring zealously 
in every way possible to aid in the suppres- 
sion of the southern uprising. From the 
time of his arrival in St. Louis he was a mem- 



ber of the First Congregational Church, and 
for many years he was president of the board 
of trustees of that church. An innate fond- 
ness for the country caused him to become 
the owner, in later years of his life, of a 
number of farms on the famous "American 
bottom," on the Illinois side of the river, and 
this interest made him an active promoter of 
farm drainage, and drainage legislation in 
that state. 

Mr. Merrell married, in 1848, IMiss Kate 
Jeannette Kellogg, of Westmoreland, N. Y. 
From this union were born Lizzie M. Wal- 
bridge; Hubert S., Ashbel N., Lottie G. and 
George R. Merrell. 

Hubert Spencer Merrell, the son of 
Jacob Spencer Merrell, was born in St. Louis, 
in 1858. He was educated in the public 
schools of that city, and at Washington Un- 
iversity, and then spent five years on a farm 
in Madison county, Illinois. In 1885 he was 
elected vice-president of the J. S. Merrell 
Drug Company, and the same year estab- 
lished his home in Collinsville, 111. In 1897 he 
removed from Collinsville to St. Louis. He 
married, in 1881, Miss Georgia Crenshaw, 
who was born in Sangamon county, Illinois. 

.^SHBEL Norman Merrell, another son 
of Jacob S. Merrell, was born in St. Louis, in 
1863. Made deaf by illness in early child- 
hood, he was educated at the deaf mute insti- 
tutes of Fulton, Mo., and Jacksonville, 111. 
When this course of training was completed 
he became a clerk for the J. S. ]\Ierrell Drug 
Company, and is now one of the stockholders 
in that corporation. He married, in 1887. 
IMiss Mattie B. Hutchinson, of Boonville. 
Mo., also a deaf mute. 

George Robert Merrell, youngest son 
of Jacob Spencer Merrell, was born Novem- 
ber 13, 1869. After completing his academic 
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Louis College of Pharmacy, and was gradu- 
ated from that institution in 1889. Since 
then he has been actively identified with the 
business of the J. S. Merrell Drug Company, 
and is now second vice-president of that cor- 
poration. He married, in 1893, Miss Alice 
Bently Atkins. 



OSCAR LIVINGSTON WHITELAW. 

Oscar Livingston Whitelaw. Merchant. 
Born in May, 1841, in Ryegate, Vt. Son of 
William Trotter and Lucy Wells Morse 
Whitelaw. Educated in the common schools 
and possesses an academic education. He is 
a member of the firm of Whitelaw Bros., 
composed of Oscar L. and Robert H. White- 
law, established in 1853. He began his 
business career as a salesman in 1866, mem- 
ber of the firm of Geo. P. Whitelaw & Co., 
1873, Barstow & Whitelaw; 1886, Whitelaw 
Bros. He is a member of the Mercantile, 
Commercial, and Round Table clubs. In re- 
ligious belief he is a Congregationalist, and 
in politics he is a Republican. Married in 
May, 1873, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Lillie 
Dwight Lathrop. Children, Grace L. Wal- 
lace, Bessie D. Terry, Lucy L. Whitelaw, 
Hamilton D. Whitelaw. Business address, 
409 N. Second street; residence address, 
3631 Washington avenue, St. Louis. 



ROBERT HENRY WHITELAW. 

Robert Henry Whitelaw. Merchant. 
Born in September, 1847, '" Vermont. Son 
of William Trotter and Lucy Wells Morse 
Whitelaw. Educated in the common schools 



of his native State, Vermont. He is a mem- 
ber of the firm of Whitelaw Bros., composed 
of Oscar L. Whitelaw and Robert H. White- 
law, established in 1853; 1868, cashier of the 
firm of Geo. P. Whitelaw & Co., St. Louis; 
1873, member of the firm of Barstow & 
Whitelaw, St. Louis; 1886, member of the 
firm of Whitelaw Bros., St. Louis. He is a 
member of the St. Louis and Round Table 
clubs. In religious belief he is a Congrega- 
tionalist and he affiliates with the Republican 
party. Married in February, 1876, in St. 
Louis, to Mary Grey Westgate (deceased). 
Children, Mrs. Margaret Grey Wilson, 
Ralph Thomas Whitelaw, Robert Malcolm 
Whitelaw. Business address 409 N. Second 
street; residence address, The Buckingham. 



JASON HARVEY MOORE. 

Jason Harvey Moore. Oculist and Aurist, 
president of the Dr. J. Harvey Moore Eye 
and Ear Institute. Born September i, 1858, 
Springplace, Murray county, Ga., son of 
William H. and Sarah Ann (McMullen) 
Moore. After receiving a fine literary and 
scientific education he graduated from Jef- 
ferson Medical College, Philadelphia, in 
March, 1882. In 1886, he took a post grad- 
uate course at Philadelphia Polyclinic, and 
in 1888 took post graduate course in New 
York Polyclinic. January i, 1894, he re- 
moved to Atlanta, Ga., where he served as 
professor of the eye and ear in the Medical 
College of Georgia and has also served in 
the same capacity in the American Medical 
College at St. Louis since locating in that 
city which he did in June, 1899. He was 
appointed by Governor Stephens in 1900 and 
again by Governor Dockery in 1901, mem- 



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ber of the board of managers and oculist to 
the State School for the Blind. He has an 
extensive practice through the west and 
southwest. He is a Democrat in politics, is 
a Presbyterian, a Mason, Odd Fellow and 
Knight of Pythias. His great-great-grand- 
father, Burton Moore, served with General 
Marion in the Revolutionarj' war. His ma- 
ternal great-great-grandfather. William R. 
Utter, served in the war of 181 2, and his 
father served in the Civil war as ordnance 
sergeant on Colonel Hart's stafif in General 
Wheeler's Sixth Georgia Cavalry. Married 
April 16, 1884, at Marietta, Ohio, Fanny 
Booth. Children are Grace Mildred, Jason 
Harvey, Jr., Francis Elizabeth and Horatio 
Booth Moore. Residence, Webster Groves; 
business address, 205-206 Odd Fellows 
building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



COL. HENRY T. MOTT. 

Col. Henry T. IMott has been a prominent 
citizen of St. Louis for thirty-five years. He 
came west as an orphan at four years of age, 
and after spending fifteen years in Illinois, 
has since made his home in Missouri. Is 
engaged in the general insurance and invest- 
ment business. He is one of the best posted 
insurance men in the west. 

For twenty years he was in the shoe busi- 
ness, until in 1897. desiring a more recrea- 
tive occupation, he sold his stores at 610 
North Broadway and 510 Olive street and 
entered the insurance field. Before he had 
become well settled in the new business, how- 
ever, the cry of distress from Cuba excited 
his sympathy and he determined to act. He 
immediately offered his services to the gov- 
ernor, and won his spurs in 1898 as assistant 



adjutant general in the mobilization of 
troops for the Spanish-American war. Being 
the first to offer his services, he was promptly 
commissioned as assistant to General Bell, 
in which capacity he rendered valuable aid, 
both here and at \\'ashington. D. C, where 
expense accounts had to be audited and meas- 
ures pushed forward for the betterment of 
existing conditions in state military matters. 

He was most untiring in this work, and 
after complete mobilization had been effected 
and the war was over, he resigned his com- 
mission and took up the work of aiding the 
returning volunteers, spending much time, 
money and energ}' in caring for the sick, 
burying tlie dead with military honors, and 
giving receptions to returning regiments, 
with the aid of a large committee, of which 
he was made chairman. 

When it was found that, on account of 
the scattered condition of some regiments, 
it was not practical to give them receptions, 
it was Colonel Mott who designed and 
caused to be made a medallion medal, having 
the likeness of President McKinley on one 
side, and a suitable inscription as coming 
from the citizens of St. Louis on the other, 
the medal being struck from metal secured 
from the wreck of the Maine. More than 
three thousand of these medals were pre- 
sented to those who had not been banqueted. 
A fac simile of this medal was made of gold 
and presented to him at that time. He caused 
a flag to be presented to the Thirty-eighth 
United States \'olunteer Infantry (Col. 
George S. Anderson, commanding) previous 
to the departure of that regiment for the 
Philippines, in 1899. and also a similar flag 
to the Forty-ninth United States Volunteer 
Infantry (Col. William H. Beck, command- 
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organized on Missouri soil for service in the 
Philippine campaign. 

Col. Mott has been highly honored on 
many occasions in recent years, on account of 
his untiring devotion to the welfare of volun- 
teers and other patriotic purposes; he was 
appointed aid and chief of staff to General 
Noble on the occasion of the great civic 
parade and presentation of flags to the First 
Regiment and Battery A on their departure 
for the front in 1898; was one of the execu- 
tive committee for arranging the reception 
and parade in honor of Admiral Dewey on 
the occasion of his visit to St. Louis, and was 
secretary of the great McKinley memorial 
meeting, when more than 30,000 citizens as- 
sembled at the Coliseum to pay a last tribute 
to our martyred president; he was one of the 
original committee of 200 to arrange for col- 
lection of funds and to establish the World's 
Fair — he was selected as adjutant general of 
the great Louisiana Purchase dedication pa- 
rade; was also adjutant general of the St. 
Louis Day, and of the Grand Army Day 
parades at the exposition, and was named 
by the World's Fair management as chair- 
man to appoint and head the committee for 
the reception of the battleship Arkansas on 
the arrival of that vessel at St. Louis to par- 
ticipate in the dedication. 

Colonel Mott is president of old Com- 
pany A, St. Louis National Guard Associa- 
tion, the oldest military organization in the 
west. This organization included veterans 
from both sides of the Civil war who were 
members of "Old Company A" from 1852 
to 1880. All Mexican war veterans in Mis- 
souri are honorary members of the asso- 
ciation. 

He is an active member of Occidental 
Lodge, A. F. & A. M., and represents that 
lodge on the Masonic Board of Relief; is a 



Methodist in religion, being an official mem- 
ber of and one of the original founders of 
Lindell Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church, 
member of the Historical Society and an ac- 
tive worker in the Hospital Saturday and 
Sunday Association — this busy man for 
others, has never found time for club life, or 
to engage in politics. Business address, 
W'ainwright building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHAMBERS BROWN CLAPP, M. D. 

Chambers Brown Clapp, M. D. Physi- 
cian and surgeon. Born November 21, 1858, 
in Danville, 111. Son of George A. and Cath- 
rine (Brown) Clapp. Educated in the Dan- 
ville (Illinois) public school; State Normal, 
Peru, Neb. ; Lake Forest University ; Phila- 
delphia Medical College Pharmacy; Rush 
Medical College. His father was a lieuten- 
ant in the 125th Illinois Volunteers. 

Dr. Clapp is a member of the Interna- 
tional Association of Railway Surgeons, 
Wabash Association of Railway Surgeons, 
American Medical Association, Missouri 
State Medical Association, North Missouri 
Medical Association, Randolph County Med- 
ical Society and Moberly Medical Society; 
member of the Consistory, K. T. Chapter, 
Blue Lodge. Shriners; Elks, K. of P., Odd 
Fellows, also several fraternal insurance 
societies. He is secretary of the Pythian 
Hall Association, and in religious belief he 
is a Methodist. In 1890 he removed to 
Moberly, Mo., from the state of Illinois, 
where he has practiced his profession ever 
since. In early life he was a farmer boy; 
then taught school, then studied pharmacy, 
and finally the practice of medicine in 18S9. 
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cians. Democratic in politics. In June, 

1889, was appointed local surgeon for the 
Wabash railway at Danville, 111. October, 

1890, was appointed division surgeon for 
same company at Moberly, Mo., and Novem- 
ber of same year was appointed surgeon in 
charge of the company's hospital located at 
Aloberly, which position he still holds. 

Mr. Clapp was married, November 21, 
1884, in Danville, III, to Miss Laura Dell 
Lockhart. Business address, Moberly, Mis- 
souri. 



14, 1890, in St. Louis to Miss Sadie Fraley. 
Children born, Winifred F. Stix. Business 
address. Grand Leader building; residence 
address, 5046 Washington avenue, St. 
Louis. 



CUAS. AARON STIX. 

Chas. Aaron Stix. President of the Stix, 
Baer & Fuller Co. Born June 27, 1861, in 
Cincinnati, Ohio. Son of Aaron and Han- 
nah (Rice) Stix. Educated in the Cincin- 
nati public schools, graduating at Hughes 
high school in the class of 1880. He is a 
member of the Stix, Baer & Fuller Dry 
Goods Co., of which he is president and the 
Grand Leader Realty Co., vice-president. 
Started as a stock boy with Stix, Krause & 
Co., 1880, Cincinnati; Stix & Manning, 
1887, St. Louis; Chas. A. Stix & Co., 1889; 
Stix, Baer & Fuller, 1892, incorporated in 
1902. The large department store known 
as the Grand Leader of which he is presi- 
dent is one of the largest concerns west of 
New York City. Their business has stead- 
ily increased from a small beginning to the 
large volume of business they transacted in 
1905 and to the success of this enterprise, 
Mr. Stix has contributed his share in making 
the company what it is to-day in the city of 
St. Louis. Mr. Stix is a member of the 
Columbian, Glen Echo. Mercantile, King's 
Lake and Missouri Athletic clubs. In re- 
ligion he is Jewish. He was married, March 



FORREST G. FERRIS. 

Forrest G. Ferris. Lawyer. Born July 
31, i860, in Reading, Hillsdale county, 
Mich. Son of Augustus H. and Sylvia 
(Reed) Ferris, and is a descendant of Syl- 
vanus Ferris, who in Revolutionary times 
was forced by the tories to move from Green- 
wich, Conn., to West Chester county, N. Y. 
Father, Augustus H., was in the late Civil 
war, a sergeant in Company C, First Regi- 
ment Michigan Sharp Shooters, and died as 
a prisoner of war in Salisbury prison, North 
Carolina, January 5, 1865. 

Forrest G. Ferris was educated in the dis- 
trict school, in Chillicothe (Mo.) High 
School ; Missouri State University, with de- 
gree of LL. B. in 1882. In 1871 he removed 
to Wheeling, Livingston county, Mo., from 
the state of Michigan, and after four years at 
the Missouri State University, and graduat- 
ing in the law department of that institution, 
located in Moberly, Mo., in 1882. Practiced 
law one year, taught school two years, and 
began the practice of his profession in 1885, 
which he has continued ever since. Mr. 
Ferris has been president of the Moberly 
Board of Education, president of the Mis- 
souri State School Board Association, and 
member of Moberly Public Library Board. 
Has always been active in organization work 
of the Republican party, and was a delegate 
to the Republican National Convention at 
Chicago in 1904. 

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in Moberly, Mo., Miss Bessie Rothwell. 
Children : Elizabeth Reed, Franklin Roth- 
well, Ruth and Forrest G. Ferris, Jr. Busi- 
ness and residence address, Moberly, Mis- 
souri. 



CHARLES A. STACY. 

Charles A. Stacy. Secretary Rice-Stix 
Dry Goods Company. Bom July 5, 1856, in 
Alabama. Son of John W. and Margaret L. 
(Allen) Stacy. He possesses an academic ed- 
ucation. He located in Missouri in 1882 
from Memphis, Tenn., and became a member 
of the dry goods firm of Rice, Stix & Co., 
afterwards incorporatied as the Rice-Stix 
D. G. Co., and was elected its secretary. 
In political matters he affiliates with the 
Democratic party. Business address. Tenth 
and Washington avenue ; residence address. 
Planters Hotel, St. Louis. 



LEO RASSIEUR. 



Leo Rassieur. Lawyer. Born April 19, 
1844, 3t Wadern, Prussia, son of Theodore 
and Margaret (Klauck) Rassieur. Mrs. 
Rassieur died in 1848. Three years later 
the father came to America, the son coming 
with him, and in 185 1 they took up their res- 
idence in St. Louis which has since been the 
home of the latter, and where he received his 
education first attending the common schools 
of the city and then entering the Central high 
school, whence he graduated in June, i860. 
Shortly after this, the Civil war began, and 
there were heated discussions among the 
German-Americans of St. Louis as to what 
step they should take. In a meeting held in 



March, 1861, he made a speech in opposition 
to a resolution stating it as the sense of the 
German-Americans of St. Louis that in the 
coming difficulty it was the part of wisdom 
for them to preserve a position of neutrality. 
Two months later he entered the Federal 
army as a private, being promoted to orderly 
sergeant on the second day of his service. 
September 9, 1861, enlisted for the second 
time, in the First Missouri Infantry, United 
States Reserve Corps, for a term of three 
years and was unanimously elected first 
lieutenant of Company E. On April 22, 
1862, he was honorably discharged on ac- 
count of illness. August 18, 1862, again en- 
tered the service and was at once made cap- 
tain of Company K, Thirtieth Missouri In- 
fantry. On September 21, 1864, was com- 
missioned major. Shortly after the close of 
the war he began the study of law and was 
admitted to the bar April i, 1867. Immed- 
iately began practice of his profession in St. 
Louis where he has remained ever since. In 
1894, was elected probate judge. Four 
years he was a member of the St. Louis 
school board, and after that acted as its at- 
torney from 1880 to 1890. Is a believer in 
physical culture, was an active promoter of 
the Western Rowing Club, and was its pres- 
ident for thirteen years ; also served in a like 
relation to the St. Louis Gymnastic Society. 
He stands high with the comrades of the 
G. A. R., of which he is an active member. 
In August, 1890, was elected commander of 
the Department of Missouri, and as such 
commanded the department at the grand re- 
view at Boston in August, 1890; was unani- 
mously elected commander-in-chief in Au- 
gust, 1900. On May 10, 1886, the occasion 
of the quarter-centennial of the taking of 
Camp Jackson, he delivered the address of 
the day. July 9, 1872, Judge Rassieur mar- 



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ried Miss Mary C. Kammerer, of Wheeling, 
W. Va. Business address, 205-208 Granite 
Block; residence 408 Market street, St. 
Louis. Missouri. 



BEN. J. STRAUSS. 



Ben. J. Strauss. President of the Strauss- 
Lamish Millinery Co. Born December 18, 
1857, in Rochester, N. Y. Son of Simon and 
Caroline (Block) Strauss, educated in the 
high school in St. Louis. After acquiring his 
education, he was a salesman in 1880 and 
had charge of the company department, then 
engaged in business for himself. He organ- 
ized the Stranss-Lamish Millinery Co., and 
became its president. (Incorporated). Estab- 
lished in i860. The firm are extensive job- 
bers of millinery goods. Mr. Strauss is a 
member of the Columbian Club, St. Louis 
Business Men's League, and is a thirty- 
second degree Mason. He is an Israelite in 
religious belief. He is president of the In- 
terstate Merchants' Association, president of 
the Columbian Club. Married August 5, 
1885, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Corinne 
Hirsch. Children, Milton Ben, Laurence, 
Arthur Edgar, Lucille Gladys and Caroline 
Strauss. Business address, Washington 
avenue, corner Eleventh; residence address, 
4169 McPherson avenue, St. Louis. 



ROBERT MOORE. 



Robert Moore. Civil engineer. Born at 
New Castle. Pa., June 19, 1838, son of 

Henry C. and (Wippo) Moore. 

When about two vears old came to Indiana 



with his parents. During his school vaca- 
tions he assisted his father in his work in the 
construction of railroads in Indiana and 
Ohio. In 1858 he was graduated from the 
Miami University at Oxford, Ohio, and 
after a few years took up the work of a civil 
engineer. W'as in military service as assis- 
tant United States engineer at Camp Nel- 
son, Ky. After service, returned to St. 
Louis, then his father's home. Since then 
his work has been mainly the location and 
construction of railways in Illinois, Indi- 
ana, Ohio and Missouri. He spent two 
years at Springfield, 111., as chief engineer 
of a road which is now a part of the Balti- 
more & Ohio Southwestern Railroad. Was 
then for a year at Terre Haute, Ind., as chief 
engineer of the Terre Haute & Indianapolis 
Railroad. In 1869-70 was chief engineer, 
and built the railroad from Belleville to Du- 
quoin. 111., which is now a part of the Illi- 
nois Central Railroad. Then assisted his 
father in completing a railroad from Pleas- 
ant Hill, Mo., to Lawrence, Kans., part of 
which is now in the main line of the Atchi- 
son, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad. In 1872- 
73 he completed, as chief engineer, a rail- 
road from Lorain to Uhrichsville, Ohio, now 
a branch of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. 
He located the eastern half of the Indiana, 
Decatur & Western Railroad. In 1877 ]\Ir. 
Moore was appointed sewer commissioner 
and member of the board of Public Improve- 
ments of the city of St. Louis. In this he 
remained until 1881 when he resigned to en- 
gage again in railroad work in which he still 
remains. In 1885 and again in 1893 ^^ was 
president of the Engineers Club of St. Louis; 
since 1887, ^ member of the Institution of 
Civil Engineers of England; in 1902, pres- 
ident of the American Society of Civil En- 
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River Board (U. S.) ; i" 1899, a member of 
the Southwest Pass Board (U. S.) ; since 
1897 to the present, a member of the Board 
of Education of St. Louis. Has built several 
short lines of railway. He acted as consult- 
ing engineer for a number of bridge and rail- 
road companies. Is a prominent man in the 
clubs of the city, having served as president 
and vice-president in a number of societies. 
In 1873, Mr. Moore married Miss Alice 
Filley, of St. Louis. They have one son, 
Charles W. Moore. Business address, 118 
Laclede building; residence, 61 Vandeventer 
Place. 



JAMES CHADWICK RIEGER. 

James Chadwick Rieger. Born Septem- 
ber 30, 1856, in Beaufort, N. C, son of 
Henry and Francis J. (Davis) Rieger, the 
former a native of Germany, the latter a na- 
tive of North Carolina. James Chadwick 
Rieger acquired his education in the public 
and high schools of Kansas City, and at the 
University of Michigan. He studied law 
with Brumback & Traber of Kansas City, 
and was admitted to the bar in 1876; he sub- 
sequently took a course in the law depart- 
ment of the University of Michigan, where 
he graduated in the spring of 1877 with the 
degree of Bachelor of Law. He began the 
practice of law in Kansas City, and for sev- 
eral years was attorney for the Bank of Com- 
merce, and for the C. B. & O. Railway Com- 
pany, and other noted corporations. From 
1 89 1 to 1894 was mayor of Westport, Mo. 
During his administration he discharged his 
official duties with great ability and con- 
scientious regard for public interests. Mr. 
Rieger has always been an ardent Democrat, 
and has served for several years upon the 



city and county executive committees. In 
religion he is a communicant of the Protes- 
tant Episcopal Church, and has ever been 
active in the interests of that body; he was 
an incorporator of St. Paul Church in 1891. 
Has served as a vestryman continuously 
from that time until he moved from that 
diocese, and has at various times acted as its 
delegate in conventional bodies. He holds 
membership in the Masonic order, in the 
Order of the Eastern Star and in the Be- 
nevolent and Protective Order of the Elks. 
He was married August 27, 1876, to Miss 
Lillian A. Meily, daughter of John E. and 
Rebecca Meily. Four children have been 
born, Earle Cartert, Minnie Lillian, Church- 
ill White and Henry Rieger. Business ad- 
dress, 900 New York Life building, Kansas 
City, Mo. 



FORREST O. SNOW. 

Forrest O. Snow. Manager, St. Louis 
Branch, Capewell Horse Nail Co. The State 
of Ohio has produced some remarkable men. 
We find them in all localities of this particu- 
lar class. The middle west has received her 
quota, and the name of Mr. Snow we cite 
as a fair example of a remarkable genius 
and mechanic, who has gradually worked his 
way upward from an humble and obscure po- 
sition to that of representing large commer- 
cial interests of one of the leading manufac- 
turers of the east. He began his career herd- 
ing sheep, from the age of nine to thirteen 
years ; learned blacksmithing and horseshoe- 
ing and worked at this continually for twen- 
ty-six years. Accepted position with the 
Capewell Horse Nail Co., as traveling sales- 
man, until 1893, since which time he has 
been the branch manager. His case is no ex- 



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ception to the rule, that from the trades and 
mechanical arts a large number of our more 
successful men have come. Mr. Snow de- 
veloped a remarkable ability as a salesman 
in a particular line in which he was familiar 
while being engaged as a mechanic. He was 
born December 19, 1850, in Eaton, Lorain 
county, Ohio. Attended the public school 
at that time until he was nine years old, son 
of Almon A. Snow and Amanda M. 
(Thorp) Snow. He located in St. Louis, 
Mo., in 1896, as branch manager from Ohio. 
He is a Protestant in religious belief; is a 
thirty-second degree Mason, having taken 
all the degrees, including the thirty-second. 
February 25, 1875, at Glendale, Ohio, he 
married Eva Ett Bartlett ; has one son, Roger 
Don Snow. Business address, 12 and 14 N. 
Twelfth street; residence, 4171 Shenandoah 
avenue, St. Louis. Missouri. 



BENJAMIN P. STROMBERG. 

Benjamin P. Stromberg. Manufacturer 
of trunks and leather goods. Born Sept. 4, 
i860, in Louisville, Ky. Son of Philip and 
Lena Stromberg. He acquired his education 
in the public and high schools in Cincinnati, 
O., and previous to that in other cities in 
Germany. He is a member of the firm of 
Stromberg-Krous & Co., established in 1883, 
composed of the following members : Ben 
P. Stromberg, Leo. M. Krous, F. M. Krous. 
He began his business career as an office 
boy, clerk and traveling salesman, in the 
same business he is now engaged in. The 
concern rapidly rose from a company em- 
ploying ten people to a force of two hundred 
and fifty employees at the present time. In 
religion he is an Israelite. In politics he is a 



Republican. He is a member of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity; president of Congregation 
Shaare-Emeth, St. Louis. Married May 30, 
1883, in Louisville, Ky., to Miss Fanny 
Laub. Children, IMarian, Myra, and Sol. 
Hunt Stromberg. Business address, 620 
Washington avenue ; residence, 4342 Delmar 
avenue, St. Louis. 



HALSEY COOLEY IVES. 

Halsey Cooley Ives, Director St. Louis 
School Museum, who has achieved well- 
merited distinction as an art instructor and 
art critic, was born in 1847, at IMontour 
Falls, Schuyler county, New York. His 
father was Hiram Du Boise Ives, and his 
mother's maiden name was Teressa Mc- 
Dowell. His scholastic training was ob- 
tained at Union Academy, of his native 
town. At about the beginning of the Civil 
war his father died, and he, being then 
thrown upon his own resources, sought and 
obtained employment as a draughtsman. In 
1864 he entered the government service in 
this capacity, and was assigned to duty at 
Nashville, Tenn. His employment brought 
him in contact with men of artistic tastes, and 
his art education was Ijegun under the direc- 
tion of Alexander Piatowski, a Polish ref- 
ugee. Piatowski was a man of remarkable 
intellectual endowments, and an enthusiastic 
lover of nature and art. Having himself an 
inherent love of art and an impressionable 
nature, Mr. Ives was strongly influenced 
through his intimate relationship with the 
gifted genius, whose pupil he thus became. 
In 1869 he turned his attention to the busi- 
ness of designing and decorating, and during 
the three succeeding years he traveled exten- 
tivelv throup'h the west and south in this con- 



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nection. In 1872 he visited Mexico, and 
upon his return to the United States came 
to St. Louis, and entered the Polytechnic 
School of this city, in 1874, as an instructor. 
During the following year he pursued his 
studies abroad, and upon his return to St. 
Louis was made a member of the faculty of 
Washington University. He at once demon- 
strated that he had organizing capacity as 
■well as artistic ability, and through his ef- 
forts the St. Louis School of Fine Arts was 
established. He bent all his energies to the 
upbuilding of this institution, and when, 
through the munificence of Mr. Wayman 
Crow, the present Museum of Fine Arts 
Building was completed, in 1881, Mr. Ives 
was made director, both of the Art School 
and the Museum of Fine Arts. Ever since 
then his time and talents have been at tlie 
service of these institutions, and his earnest 
endeavor has been to enable the one to sup- 
port and advance the interests of the other, 
the collections of the museum being regarded 
by him as an open book of reference for all 
engaged in the study of art. While full at- 
tention has always been given to instruction 
in those branches familiarly known as the 
fine arts, Mr. Ives has been especially zealous 
in his efforts to restore to their proper place 
those arts commonly called industrial or ap- 
plied, and for many years he devoted much 
time and energy to giving courses of free 
lectures, on Sundays, to the mechanics and 
artisans of St. Louis. These lectures were 
fully illustrated by examples from the col- 
lections of the museum, and his own private 
collections. During this time he made fre- 
quent trips to Europe, and kept in close touch 
with every new movement in the art world. 
When the work of the World's Columbian 
Expositioin was organized the appointment 
of Mr. Ives as director of the department of 



fine arts was greeted with universal satisfac- 
tion, and the splendid results achieved under 
his direction, and the high standard to which 
American art was raised in the opinion of 
the people of this country, and of foreign na- 
tions, amply evidenced the value of his serv- 
ices to the American people. In 1894 he was 
appointed by the National Bureau of Educa- 
tion to examine and report upon the course 
of instruction and methods of work carried 
on by various continental art schools and mu- 
seums, and beginning at Gizeh, Egypt, he 
pursued a special work which traced the his- 
torical development of civilization as evi- 
denced in art. Unlike the majority of men 
of artistic tastes and temperament, Mr. Ives 
has never shrunk from the discharge of the 
more commonplace duties, incident to good 
citizenship. On the contrary, he has taken 
an active interest in municipal affairs, and 
since 1895 has served as a member of the 
city council of St. Louis. In the work which 
he has done, in connection with the upbuild- 
ing of the Museum and School of Fine Arts, 
he has seemed to have been inspired by the 
thought to which Peter Cooper, the New 
York philanthropist and founder of Cooper 
Institute, gave utterance when he said : "I 
desire to make this institution contribute in 
every way toward the aid of the efforts of 
youth, to acquire useful knowledge, and to 
find and fill those places in which their ca- 
pacities and talents can be most usefully em- 
ployed with the greatest possible advantage 
to the country in which they live." What has 
been said of his work in the local field of art 
applies equally well to the services he has 
rendered to American art in its relation to 
that of foreign countries, in securing for it 
that recognition which it merited from the 
art critics of Europe. As a testimony of 
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rection of art education, he has received 
from King Oscar, of Sweden, the decoration 
of the "Order of the Vasa," and from King 
Christian, of Denmark, that of the "Order 
of the Dannebrog," besides several marks of 
appreciation from the governments of 
France, Germany and Japan. Mr. Ives mar- 
ried, in 1887, Miss Margaret Lackland, 
daughter of Rufus J. Lackland, the well 
known banker and financier of St. Louis. 
Their children are Caroline Eliot Lackland 
Ives and Neil McDowell Ives. Residence 
address 3731 Westminster Place, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM BINGHAM CLARKE. 

William Bingham Clarke. No name 
in Kansas City stands for more in finan- 
cial and social life than that of the banker, 
successful financier and public spirited cit- 
izen, William Bingham Clarke. He was 
born in Cleveland, Ohio, on April 15, 1848, 
his father being Aaron Clarke, of Mil- 
ford, New Haven county, Conn., and his 
mother being Caroline Bingham, of Ando- 
ver. Conn. His education was obtained in 
the public and private schools of his native 
city, supplemented by a course in law and 
admission to the bar. He obtained his early 
banking knowledge in two of the largest 
banks in Cleveland. In the spring of 1871 
he opened a bank at Abilene, Kans., then the 
headquarters for Texas cattle which were 
being driven from Texas through the Indian 
Territory for shipment by railway to Kan- 
sas City and Chicago. In 1872, when the 
center of the cattle trade drifted farther west, 
Mr. Clarke opened a bank in Junction City, 
Kans., known as The Banking House of 
W. B. Clarke. In 1886 he reorganized this 



bank as the First National Bank, in which 
he is still interested. During this period of 
fifteen years he did a very large municipal 
bond business. One county, of whose bonds 
he held nearly the entire issue, repudiated its 
obligations, thus causing a great loss to Mr. 
Clarke. This was followed by a run on his 
bank, which forced a suspension. He made 
an assignment and upon a showing of his 
condition to his creditors they accepted 
twenty-five cents on the dollar in full pay- 
ment of all claims against him, after which 
he was enabled to continue his business, 
which he did with most profitable results. 
Several years later he won his suit against 
the defaulting county and recovered what 
was due him. Immediately, and, although 
Mr. Clarke had a full legal discharge, he 
nevertheless sent out checks to every deposi- 
tor in his bank, for the other seventy-five 
per cent, with interest for the full time. In 
1880 Mr. Clarke became largely interested 
in the Merchant's National Bank of Kansas 
City, Mo., of which he accepted the presi- 
dency, moving to Kansas City in 1886. Two 
years later he established the United States 
Trust Company of Kansas City, Mo., of 
which he is still president. He has been 
president of the Kansas City Club, and of 
the Kansas City Country Club, and third, 
second and first vice-president, and was 
elected president of the Commercial Club. 
He is, and has been, junior warden of Grace 
church for many years. He was the first, 
and is still, treasurer of the diocese of West 
Missouri of the Protestant Episcopal church. 
Is a member of the Kansas City Bar Asso- 
ciation. Is a thirty-second degree Mason. 
He is also a member of the Union Club, of 
Cleveland, Ohio; the Denver Club, of Den- 
ver, Colo., and the Alta Club, of Salt Lake 
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organizations, social and political. Is a 
prominent national politician, a member of 
the advisory committee of the National Re- 
publican Committee for Missouri. In 1898, 
during the free silver craze, he organized 
and became president of the Sound Money 
Leagite, having a membership of over 
17,000. At the head of this organization 
Mr. Clarke showed great skill as a political 
organizer and manager. But his tastes run- 
ning rather to social and business affairs, he 
has never pursued politics, except occasion- 
ally as a sense of duty, and has never held 
a public office, although frequently he has 
been complimented by the tender of office 
very high in the Republican party. He 
has been largely interested in the devel- 
opment of the telephone in Missouri, Kansas 
and Indian Territory, and in the salt industry 
at Salt Lake, and in railroad building in that 
territory, and in mining in Colorado. 

In 1876 he married Miss Kate Rockwell, 
of Warsaw, 111., whose father, George Rock- 
well, was from Ridgefield, Conn., and whose 
mother, Catherine Cole Westlake, was from 
Newburgh-on-the-Hudson. They have two 
sons, William Rockwell Clarke, a graduate 
Yale, 1900, and Bertrand Rockwell Clarke, 
a graduate of Williams, 1904. 



XENOPHON P. WILPLEY. 

Xenophon P. Wilpley, a lawyer. Born 
March 18, 1871, in Audrain county, Mo., 
son of James Frank and Sarah R. (Prin- 
dall) Wilpley, educated in the Central Col- 
lege of Fayette, Mo., graduating in that insti- 
tution in 1896 with the degree A. M. ; St. 
Louis Law School, 1899, LL. B. Taught in 
Central College one year after graduation 

16 



and in Sedalia high school three years; en- 
tered St. Louis Law School September 18, 
1898, and graduated June, 1899. Began the 
practice of law in St. Louis, Mo., in the 
same year, and has continued in the practice 
since that date. He is a member of the Mer- 
cantile and Jefferson Clubs, a Methodist in 
religious belief and a Democrat in political 
principles. Business address, 1 201- 1203 Mis- 
souri Trust building ; residence address, 5085 
Vernon avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JACOB STOCKE. 

Jacob Stocke. President Progress Press 
Brick and Machine Co., was born February 
10, 1833, in St. Louis. His father, who was 
a native of Pennsylvania, was George V. 
Stocke and his mother's maiden name was 
Lena Breitenstein. When a lad eighteen 
years of age the elder Stocke came west, 
reaching St. Louis in the year 1825. Here 
he soon procured work in a grocery store. 
For some time before, and during the fire of 
1849, which swept away so large a part of 
St. Louis, he had charge of the river patrol, 
and later was overseer at the workhouse. He 
then embarked in the grocery business, which 
he conducted successfully until his death, in 
1887, at the advanced age of nearly eighty 
years. He was much beloved by all who 
knew him, and at his death there passed away 
one of the most prominent of the pioneers of 
this city. Jacob Stocke was one of the five 
children born to George V. Stocke and his 
wife, of whom but one other, Mrs. Robert 
Berry, was living in 1899. Jacob Stocke, 
the youngest of the children, was educated 
in the public schools of St. Louis, attending 
as a boy, what was known as the Lafayette 
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he was placed in charge of a vegetable 
stand at the old market, then situated be- 
tween Market and Walnut streets, on Main 
street. This started him in the business in 
which he has ever since been engaged, in 
which he has shown remarkable business 
acumen, and in which he has been very suc- 
cessful. When the Center market was 
opened, on Seventh and Spruce streets, on 
the ground now occupied by the Cupples 
blocks, Mr. Stocke was one of those who 
moved their business to the new market, 
marching, with many of the former occu- 
pants of the old building, in a procession 
headed by prominent citizens to the new lo- 
cation. In 1878 he removed to the Union 
market, and from that central location has 
ever since supplied the leading hotels, club 
houses and most prominent families of St. 
Louis with vegetables and fruits of all kinds. 
These fruits and vegetables are now largely 
grown on Mr. Stocke's farm, situated in St. 
Louis county. This farm is known as one of 
the most productive fruit and vegetable 
farms of the west, and it is doubtful if any 
other farm in this region has ever yielded 
such rich returns to its owner. He also es- 
tablished, in 1891. the Progress Press Brick 
and Machine W^orks of St. Louis. Frugal 
in his habits and indefatigable in his indus- 
try, Mr. Stocke has earned the reward of 
affluence, and the position of prominence 
which he occupies in business circles. He 
has traveled extensively for the purpose of 
investigating matters pertaining to agricul- 
ture and horticulture, and by a process of in- 
telligent experimentation he is all the time 
arriving at more satisfactory results in the 
prosecution of the industry in which he is en- 
gaged. At the outbreak of the Civil war he 
entered the Fifth Missouri Militia Regi- 
ment, with which he served in defense of the 



Union throughout that trying period. While 
he has always voted the Republican ticket, 
and has at various times taken an active part 
in political campaigns, he has refused nu- 
merous profifers of office, preferring to de- 
vote all of his time to his business affairs. 
He married Aliss Annie Schill, daughter of a 
well-to-do farmer and wine-maker of Over- 
bergen. The children born to them have 
been Sophie, now Mrs. Henry Frueh ; Mary, 
now Mrs. Louis Schurck; Katie, now Mrs. 
Adolph Klingler ; Anna, now Mrs. Henry C. 
Bechman ; Julietta, now Mrs. W'illiam 
Schroedter; and Jacob V. Stocke. Resi- 
dence, 3124 Miami, St. Louis, Mo. 



GUSTAVUS SCHUCHMANN. 

Gustavus Schuchmann, President of the 
Schuchmann Realty Co, was born Novem- 
ber 13, 1850, in St. Louis, son of Philip 
and Catharine (Weber) Schuchmann. His 
parents were among the early German set- 
tlers in St. Louis, and the son was reared in 
this city, obtaining his education at the noted 
old-time private school known as Wyman 
University. When he was nineteen years of 
age he began, in a small way, the business 
in which he later became famous, and which 
caused him to become the founder of one of 
the great meat-packing establishments of St. 
Louis. His earliest venture in this line was 
supplying meats to steamboats plying on the 
Mississippi River, and from 1875 to 1880 he 
furnished meats under contract to various 
city institutions. In the year 1880 he or- 
ganized the American Meat Canning Com- 
pany, of which he became president in 1882. 
He was, from the start, the moving spirit in 
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ation, and gradually acquired all the stock, 
becoming sole owner of the plant and its ap- 
purtenances. As manager of this establish- 
ment, he built up a very large business, 
which extended over a wide range of terri- 
tory and had numerous and varied ramifica- 
tions. He continued at the head of this cor- 
poration until 1885, when he disposed of all 
his interests in the meat canning industry 
and turned his attention to operations in real 
estate. In this field of enterprise he soon 
became a conspicuous figure, purchasing and 
improving much property and being instru- 
mental in giving to the city some of its most 
attractive buildings. He was the originator 
of the movement which resulted in the erec- 
tion of the Chemical Building, purchasing 
the property himself and afterward asso- 
ciating with him other gentlemen, whose 
combined efforts gave to St. Louis one of 
the handsomest office buildings in the west. 
He acquired large property interests also on 
Washington avenue, and was one of the 
prime movers in inaugurating the Washing- 
ton boulevard enterprise, an improvement 
for which the city is largely indebted to his 
energetic action, his sagacity and foresight. 
Experience has proved that he has been re- 
markably accurate in his judgments of the 
value of real estate and in his forecasts of 
growth and development in various portions 
of the city. As a result his contemporaries 
in business circles have set a high value upon 
his judgment, and few men are regularly 
consulted by so large a number of clients in 
matters pertaining to city realty and invest- 
ments therein. Of sanguine temperament 
and vigorous mentality, he acts promptly 
under all circumstances, and his action is of 
that forceful character which never fails to 
be productive of the best results. His career 
and the success which he has achieved as a 



man of affairs entitle him to a prominent 
place among the self-made men of St. Louis, 
and those whose fortunes have been accumu- 
lated by persistent and well-directed eft'orts. 
Having been absorbed all his life in business 
affairs, he has given little attention to poli- 
tics, and has never been in any sense a par- 
tisan, voting for men and measures as they 
commended themselves, from time to time, 
to his judgment and convictions. His relig- 
ious aftiliations are with the Presbyterian 
Church, but he is a broadly liberal church- 
man, and has been hardly less generous in his 
contributions to other churches than to the 
one in which he holds membership. March 
18, 1880, he married Miss Mina Soderer, 
daughter of Alois Soderer, of St. Louis. 
Their children are Alois Soderer Schuch- 
mann and Lillie Schuchmann. Residence, 
281 1 Russell avenue. St. Louis, Missouri. 



JEROME TWICHELL. 

Jerome Twichell. President and general 
manager of the Kansas City, Mo., Roofing 
and Corrugating Company, one of the lar- 
gest concerns of the kind in the west, is a 
native of Kentucky, his birth occurring in 
the city of Louisville, Augiist 13, 1844. The 
greater part of his childhood was passed in 
New Orleans, where his early education was 
secured. In i860 he went with his father 
to Arkansas and assisted in carrying on a 
cotton plantation until 1862, when at the age 
of sixteen years he enlisted in Company E, 
Eighth Arkansas Regiment, Confederate 
States of America, with which he served 
continuously as a private until the cessation 
of hostilities. He was captured at the battle 



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of Jonesboro near Atlanta, but was ex- 
changed on the held. Near the close of the 
war he was captured at Franklin and was 
confined at Camp Douglas, Chicago, until 
the close of the war. He then returned to 
the old plantation in Arkansas, and a little 
later to Louisville, where he secured em- 
ployment as a salesman in a seed and imple- 
ment house, and continued thus until 1868, 
when he went to California, and while there 
aided in the construction of snow sheds on 
the Central Pacific Railway. Early in the 
seventies he shipped on board a merchant 
vessel bound for Hong Kong, China. There 
he spent about six months. The vessel then 
went to Manila where it took on a cargo of 
sugar, after which it sailed for New York, 
Mr. Twichell went to New Orleans, and 
clerked for a short time in a grocery store, 
but in 1 87 1 went to Louisville, and traveled 
for his old firm until 1879. He then came 
to Kansas City and embarked in the grocery 
brokerage business, his specialties being 
dried fruits and honey. Later he consoli- 
dated with demons, Cloon & Company, but 
in 1886 sold out and began his present busi- 
ness under the firm name of Jerome Twichell 
& Company. In 1892 the concern was in- 
corporated under the title Kansas City Metal 
Roofing and Corrugating Company (which 
was later changed to the Kansas City Roof- 
ing & Corrugating Company), of which Mr. 
Twichell is president and general manager. 
They deal in corrugated iron and all kinds 
of roofing material. They are doing a large 
and profitable business. Mr. Twichell is a 
Mason of high standing, has been a member 
of the CommerciaKIlub and Manufacturers' 
association since the first year of their organ- 
ization and is connected with nearly every 
commercial body in the city. He is regarded 
as one of the most reliable business men and 



most substantial citizens of this remarkable 
city. Business address, 218 West Third 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FREDERICK MORGAN CRUNDEN. 

Frederick Morgan Crunden deserves spe- 
cial mention in a record of the achieve- 
ments of the leading citizens of St. Louis, on 
acount of his faithful labors in behalf of a 
free library. When Mr. Crunden began to 
agitate the question of the abolition of the 
small fees charged at the Public Library, he 
received little encouragement, except of a 
sympathetic character, and few people 
thought he would succeed in his crusade. 
He, however, persevered, in spite of discour- 
agement, and pointed out again and again, 
with much force, that the small fees charged 
pressed most heavily on those least able to 
pay them, and that they were a distinct tax 
upon study and a hindrance to those in search 
of a higher education. The old Public 
School Library, now known as the Public 
Library, is now free in fact as well as name, 
and that Mr. Crunden was correct in his 
estimates and deductions is evidenced by the 
enormous increase in the attendance and de- 
mand for books. 

The man who has the distinction of be- 
ing the first librarian of the first public free 
library in St. Louis is of English descent. 
His parents, Benjamin R. and Mary (Mor- 
gan) Crunden, resided at Gravesend, at the 
mouth of the river Thames, in England, 
where, on September i, 1848, Frederick M. 
was bom. He was brought to America 
when he was an infant, and soon entered the 
public schools of this city. 

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M. was quite young, leaving Mrs. Crunden 
with two young sons. The St. Louis Pub- 
lic Librarian attributes all his success in life 
to his mother's noble example and admirable 
training. 

When thirteen years of age he entered 
the high school, with a higher percentage 
than any other applicant, and he graduated 
from the high school with such honorss that 
he was awarded the scholarship of Washing- 
ton University given to the first in the grad- 
uating class. 

Skipping the Freshman's class he entered 
the Sophomore class, and graduated with 
honors in 1869. For about eight months he 
taught in the University Academy, and was 
next appointed principal at Jefferson School. 
In the following year he was made principal 
of the Benton School, and opened the new 
building on Ninth and Locust streets. His 
next position was as professor of elocution 
at Washington University, but at the close 
of the term of 1876 he was compelled to re- 
sign this position on account of weakness of 
the throat. After spending the winter in 
Colorado he was, on January 7, 1877, in- 
stalled as librarian of the Public School Li- 
brary in the old Polytechnic Building. 

He at once commenced a system of re- 
form in the management of the library, and 
in a few years had brought it to a high state 
of perfection. By nature a book-lover and 
collector, he adopted a system of cataloguing 
which proved a great advance on past efforts, 
and the library soon became a favorite re- 
sort of students and scholars, as well as of 
the pupils of the public schools, for whose 
use the library was originally designed. In 
1889 the American Library Association rec- 
ognized the ability of Mr. Crunden by mak- 
ing him its fourth 'president, and quite re- 
cently he was offered the librarianship at the 



Newberry Library at Chicago, a position he 
declined at the earnest solicitation of the li- 
brary committee, and because he was anx- 
ious to complete the great work he had un- 
dertaken so zealously here. 

As a public citizen Mr. Crunden's posi- 
tion is very high. He is a member of the 
Mercantile Club, and was one of the earliest 
members of the University Round Table 
and McCulloch Clubs. He is also a member 
of the Artists' Guild and an enthusiastic 
worker on the executive committee of the 
Missouri Civil Service Reform Association. 

In June, 1889, Mr. Crunden married 
Miss Kate Edmondson, daughter of the late 
Edmund J. Edmondson. a distinguished 
English tenor singer and musical director, 
whose name frequently appeared in high- 
class programmes in Manchester and the 
North of England. Their only son is named 
Frederick Edmondson Crunden. Librarian 
St. Louis Public Library, 911 Locust; resi- 
dence 3947 Washington Place. 



FRANK MEEKER RUMBOLD. 

Frank Meeker Rumbold, physician, was 
born January 4, 1862, in Lafayette County, 
Wisconsin, son of Dr. Thomas F. and Emma 
(Meeker) Rumbold. His father, who has 
achieved distinction in the practice of his pro- 
fession, was born in Aberdeen. Scotland, and 
is a direct descendant of Captain John Rum- 
bold, of "Rye House Castle" and of "Rye 
House Plot" fame. The elder Dr. Rumbold 
emigrated with his parents from Scotland to 
Canada in 1834, and came from there to the 
United States in his young manhood, estab- 
lishing his home in Scott county. Iowa. He 
saw military service during the Civil war, 



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acting during that period as a surgeon in 
the Union Army. His wife, tlie mother of 
Dr. Frank M. Rumbold, was a daughter of 
Dr. John Meeker, who was one of the pio- 
neer settlers of Wisconsin. Dr. Frank M. 
Rumbold was educated in the public schools 
of St. Louis and at Washington University. 
He then began the study of medicine and 
was graduated from St. Louis Medical Col- 
lege in 1884. During his medical college 
vacations he prospected and mined in Col- 
orado and New Mexico, traversing a good 
part of both State and Territory either on 
foot or on horseback. Li 1884 he became 
business manager of the "St. Louis Medical 
and Surgical Journal," of which his father 
was editor and proprietor, and in 1886 be- 
came associate editor and proprietor of this 
journal. Meantime, he had begun the prac- 
tice of his profession, which was at first gen- 
eral in its character, but which he confined 
after 1887 to diseases of the nose, throat and 
ear. In 1896 he disposed of his interests in 
the "St. Louis Medical and Surgical Jour- 
nal," and in company with Dr. M. A. Gold- 
stein founded "The Laryngoscope," a jour- 
nal devoted exclusively to the consideration 
of diseases of the nose, throat and ear. This 
journal has now become widely known, and 
has the largest international circulation of 
any of its class published in the English lan- 
guage. In 1878, when he was sixteen years 
years od. Dr. Ruinbold began a connection 
with the local military affairs of St. Louis, 
which has since gained for him enviable dis- 
tinction. At that time he became a member 
of the First Regiment of the National Guard 
of Missouri, in which he served until 1882, 
when he was transferred to Light Battery A, 
of the National Guard. He was elected sec- 
ond lieutenant of this battery in 1888, pro- 
moted to first lieutenant in 1890, and to cap- 



tain in 1891. May 10, 1898, he was com- 
missioned captain of this battery, which then 
entered the volunteer service of the United 
States to take part in the Spanish- American 
war. He commanded the battery thereafter 
until it was mustered out at the close of tlvr 
war, and saw active service in Porto Rico, 
where the battery reflected credit upon the 
city of St. Louis and the State of Missouri. 
Upon his return to St. Louis Captain Rum- 
bold resumed the practice of his profession 
and the management of the medical journal 
in which he is interested. He served as vice- 
president of the Western Oto-Laryngological 
Association in 1897, ^^'^ was secretary of 
the same association during the year 1898. 
During the year last mentioned he was also 
secretary of the St. Louis Laryngological 
Society. He has taken a somewhat active in- 
terest in politics as a member of the Repub- 
lican party, and his religious affiliations are 
with the Christian Church. Ofiice address, 
313 North Ninth street; residence, 4244 
Maryland avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE H. GODDARD. 

George H. Goddard, merchant and finan- 
cier, was born January 16, 1831, at Macon, 
Ga.. son of James and Sophronia Frisbie 
(Marshall) Goddard. His father's family 
was one of the old families of Georgia, and 
its representatives were among the early set- 
tlers of Macon, in that state. His paternal 
grandfather was a Revolutionary soldier, and 
other members of the family were also par- 
ticipants in tlie struggle for independence. 
Mr. Goddard spent the early years of his life 
in Macon, but in 1846, shortly after the 
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ton, S. C. There he completed a practical 
business education and began his business 
career in the merchandising establishment of 
the Bancrofts, who then did the largest 
wholesale and retail dry goods business in 
Charleston. Early in the year 1850 he re- 
moved to New York City, and for eight years 
thereafter represented the wholesale house of 
Wiley, Lane & Co., afterward Lane, Boyce 
& Co. In 1858 he settled in Camden, Ark., 
and was engaged in g"eneral merchandising 
at that place as junior member of the firm 
of McCollum & Goddard until the Civil war. 
During the war he served as quartermaster 
for Gen. Albert Rust, while he was in the 
trans-Mississippi department, and had charge 
of the quartermaster's oftice at Camden, 
Ark., for nearly two years, and after the war 
returned again to the business of merchan- 
dising. He came to St. Louis in 1874, and 
purchasing, first, the stock of Samuel Mc- 
Cartney & Co., and later the business of 
Bevis, Frazier & Co., engaged extensively in 
trade in this city. He disposed of these in- 
terests to the firm of Wood & Lee, in 1878, 
and since then has given his attention mainly 
to financial affairs and banking interests. He 
became connected with the Manufacturers' 
Bank, which he served officially for a time 
as vice-president, and later became cashier of 
the Valley National Bank. When that bank- 
ing house was consolidated with the Laclede 
National Bank he became a member of the 
board of directors of the Laclede Bank, and 
he is also a stockholder and director in the 
Mississippi Valley Trust Company. He was 
one of the men who were instrumental in 
promoting the building of the Merchants' 
bridge, and he has been a director of the cor- 
poration owning and controlling that great 
thoroughfare across the Mississippi river 
since it came into existence. For a period of 



nearly thirty years he has been con- 
spicuous in the commercial and financial cir- 
cles of St. Louis, commanding admiration 
for his ability and esteem for his good citi- 
zenship. Although now more than three- 
score years of age, he is one of those fortu- 
nate men upon whom the weight of years 
rests lightly, and is still actively engaged in 
the conduct of affairs. Politically he has 
always been identified with the Democratic 
party, and he is an Episcopalian churchman, 
a member of the Masonic order, and a 
Knight Templar. He married, in i860, Miss 
Virginia A. Hill, daughter of Col. Tyra Hill, 
of Camden, Ark., who, prior to his removal 
to St. Louis in 1874, carried on the largest 
mercantile business in southern Arkansas. 
Residence address, 3134 Lucas avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



MATTHEW GIVENS REYNOLDS. 

Matthew Givens Reynolds, judge of Cir- 
cuit Court No. 9, St. Louis, Mo., was born 
November 19, 1854, in Bowling Green, Pike 
county. Mo., son of Dr. Stephen J. and 
Sophronia (Givens) Reynolds. His father 
was born in Kentucky, and his paternal 
grandfather was Dr. Michael Reynolds, a 
surgeon in the British navy, who came to this 
country during the war of 1812, and later 
resigned his commission and settled in Ken- 
tucky. His father came from Kentucky to 
Missouri in his young manhood, and here 
married Miss Sophronia Givens, who was a 
native of this .state. Matthew G. Reynolds 
was appointed a United States naval cadet 
in 1870, and was graduated from the 
academy at Annapolis. Md., in the class of 
1874, winning the prize awarded to the best 



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executive officer of his class. He was as- 
signed to duty on the United States frigate 
"Plymouth," from which he was detached in 
1875, ^o become one of the cadets of the 
United States flagship "Tennessee," aboard 
of which he made a trip to China. Upon his 
return to this country, in 1876, he was pro- 
moted to ensign, his commission dating from 
July of 1875. He was then transferred to 
the United States frigate "Wyoming," and 
served on that vessel until 1877, when he re- 
signed his commission and returned to his 
home in Bowling Green. Immediately after- 
ward he began reading law under the precep- 
torship of Messrs. Robinson & Smith, of 
Bowling Green, and after attending for a 
time the St. Louis Law School, was admit- 
ted to the bar in 1878. He practiced his pro- 
fession in Bowling Green for a year and 
then removed to Louisiana, Mo., where he be' 
came a member of the firm of Fagg, Reynolds 
& Fagg. Judge Fagg, the senior member of 
the firm, removed to St. Louis in 1882, and 
the two remaining partners continued their 
association at Louisiana for another year 
under the firm name of Reynolds & Fagg. 
Their partnership was dissolved in 1883, and 
for three years thereafter Mr. Reynolds was 
associated in practice with William H. Biggs, 
now judge of the St. Louis Court of Appeals. 
In 1886 he sought a broader field of profes- 
sional labor in St. Louis, and has since prac- 
ticed in that city, except when discharging 
public and official duties. His "entree" into 
public life was made in 1878, when he was 
nominated for prosecuting attorney of Pike 
county, on the Republican ticket, and made 
an unsuccessful race for that office in a Dem- 
ocratic stronghold. In 1880 he was electea 
to the Missouri House of Representatives 
from the eastern district of Pike county, 
being the first Republican elected to office in 



that county since 1866. As a legislator he 
won enviable distinction, becoming recog- 
nized as one of the readiest and most forcible 
debaters of the House of Representatives. In 
1884 lie was a delegate to the National Re- 
publican Convention which nominated James 
G. Blaine for the presidency, and the same 
year he was the Republican candidate for 
Congress in the Seventh Missouri district, 
reducing the normal Democratic majority in 
the district more than one-half. At a later 
date he was for two years president of the 
Missouri League of Republican clubs, and, 
while holding that office, did much to advance 
the cause of his party in this state. In 1891 
President Harrison appointed him United 
States attorney for the Court of Private 
Land Claims, a tribunal specially constituted 
for the determination of titles to land claimed 
under grants from the Spanish and Mexican 
governments, in the western and southwest- 
ern states and territories, which, during the 
last half century passed to the United States 
from Mexico. Undertaking the protection 
of the government's interests in this peculiar 
class of litigation, the millions of acres in this 
region which have been restored to the pub- 
lic domain and freed from individual claim 
of title thereto, attest the success of Mr. Rey- 
nolds' efforts and his professional ability 
better than could anything else. So valuable 
were his services in this connection that he 
was reappointed to the same position by 
President Cleveland, and retained it under 
President McKinley. In 1895 he was ap- 
pointed by Attorney General Olney, and 
subsequently reappointed by Attorneys Gen- 
eral Harmon and McKenna, special assist- 
ant to the attorney general in cases appealed 
from the Court of Private Land Claims to 
the Supreme Court of the United States, and 
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court of last resort he has won added renown 
as a lawyer. 

Mr. Reynolds married, in 1880. Miss 
Mamie K. Fagg, daughter of his former law 
partner, Judge Thomas J. C. Fagg, who at 
one time graced the Supreme bench of Mis- 
souri. Their children are Stephen Clark, 
Florence, Alice, Mary, Matthew G., Jr., Rob- 
ert Parker and Lucy Winn Reynolds. Resi- 
dence address, 5521 Gates avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



SIEGMUND J. SCHUSTER. 

Siegmund J. Schuster. Wholesale sad- 
dlery merchant. Born April 6, 1861, in 
Germany. Son of Joseph and Sarah (Flor- 
sheim) Schuster. Educated in the public 
schools of Germany. Is a member of the 
firm of Jacob D. Straus Saddlery Company, 
incorporated in 1901, composed of Jacob D. 
Straus and S. J. Schuster. Mr. Schuster, 
previous to entering the partnership of this 
company, was connected with various busi- 
ness enterprises. He is a member of the 
Columbia Club, and the Masonic order. He 
is a Hebrew in religious belief, and in politics 
is Democratic. 

Mr. Schuster was married, December i, 
1898, in Newark, N. J., to Mrs. Frank. Bus- 
iness address, 1308-10 Washington avenue; 
residence address, 4435 West Pine boule- 
vard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN McDowell trimble. 

John McDowell Trimble. Born February 
24, 1851, at Brownsburg, Rockbridge Co., 
Va. Son of the Rev. William W. Trimble, a 
native of that state. John McDowell Trimble 



was sixteen years old when his father's fam- 
ily in 1866 came west and settled in Monroe 
County, Mo. He acquired his education in 
the Brownsburg Academy and at the West- 
minister College, graduating in that institu- 
tion in 1 87 1 with the degree of Bachelor of 
Arts. He taught school two years in Cal- 
laway county. Mo., and was principal of the 
Academy at Memphis, Mo., all the while en- 
gaged in the study of the elementary prin- 
ciples of law. In the leading text books 
which was the foundation of his successful 
career in his profession. On the 17th of 
March, 1874, he entered the office of Hon. 
George B. Macfarlane (deceased) at Mexi- 
co, Mo. He was Judge Macfarlane's janitor, 
amanuensis, clerk and pupil. In June, 1874, 
admitted to the bar by Judge Gilchrist Por- 
ter. 1876 was elected city attorney of Mex- 
ico, Mo., reelected in 1877. Formed a part- 
nership afterwards with Judge Macfarlane 
and the firm became Macfarlane & Trimble. 
1878 elected prosecuting attorney of Au- 
drain county, Mo., where his efficiency was 
demonstrated as a successful criminal law- 
yer. 1886 the firm of Macfarlane & Trimble 
dissolved and in this year Mr. Trimble 
moved to Kansas City, Mo., where he asso- 
ciated himself in practice with Judge Charles 
L. Dobson and Judge Shannon C. Douglass. 
In 1899 Judge Douglass withdrew from the 
firm of Dobson, Douglass & Trimble and 
in 1 89 1 Mr. Trimble left it to enter the part- 
nership with Charles A. Braley under the 
firm name of Trimble & Braley. Mr. 
Trimble is the legal adviser of many noted 
corporations doing business in Missouri and 
elsewhere. In politics he is known as a 
Gold Standard Democrat. He was candi- 
date for Governor of the state of Missouri 
in 1896 on the Palmer-Buckner ticket. In 
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bridge of Kansas City. 1900 was elected 
president of the Kansas City Bar Associa- 
tion. Business address, 720 Bryant build- 
ing; residence, northwest corner Paseo, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



OTTO F. STIFEL. 



Otto F. Stifel. Manufacturer and presi- 
dent of the Union Brewing Company. Born 
in St. Louis, November 4, 1862. Son of 
Col. Charles G. and Louise Stifel. After 
being fitted for college in the schools of St. 
Louis, he entered Washington University, 
and completed a collegiate course of study at 
that institution. He then went abroad and 
at the city of Stuttgart, Germany, pursued 
an advanced course of study in a noted school 
of technology. Returning to St. Louis, his 
liberal academic and scientific education was 
supplemented by a practical course of train- 
ing, fitting him for the care and management 
of important commercial and industrial in- 
terests. Accepting a position in his father's 
establishment, he entered upon a careful 
study of the process of manufacturing beer, 
and of the business details incident to the suc- 
cessful conduct of a large manufactory of 
that kind. Later he continued this process of 
fitting himself for the duties and responsi- 
bilities by studying the science of brewing 
at Chicago, Milwaukee and New York City. 
Returning again to St. Louis, he became 
associated in business with his father. Soon 
the Stifel brewery passed, by purchase, under 
the control of the English syndicate and Mr. 
Stifel became vice-president of the new cor- 
poration, a position which he still retains. 
Various enterprises have occupied a share of 
his attention, having been president of the 



East St. Louis Ice & Cold Storage Company. 
He is popular in both business and social 
circles, and is an esteemed member of the 
Mercantile and Union clubs, and of the 
Masonic fraternity. Politically he is identi- 
fied with the Republican party. 

Mr. Stifel was married, in 1893, to Miss 
Ella Conrades, of St. Louis. They have one 
child, a son, Charles G. Stifel. Business ad- 
dress, Gravoise and Michigan avenue; resi- 
dence address, 2007 Herbert street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN B. HOLMAN. 

John B. Holman. president of the 
Holman Paper Box Company, was born in 
Cincinnati, Ohio, October 11, 1854, son of 
John B. and Jemima (McFeely) Holman. 
He is descended in the maternal line from 
Henry Rogers, a Revolutionary patriot, who 
was born in Morris county, N. J., in 1752, 
enlisted in 1775 in Captain Morris' Company 
of Col. Lord Stirling's Regiment, and bore 
his part with honor through the independence 
struggle. Mr. Holman's father was a native 
of New York state, where the family has 
long been one of prominence, Holman City 
having been named in honor of one of its 
representatives. Mr. Holman's parents re- 
moved from Cincinnati to St. Louis when he 
was eleven years of age, and he completed 
his education in Washington University -n 
that city. After taking a scientific course at 
that institution he entered the employ of the 
Iron IMountain Railroad Company in 1871. 
and was employed in the general ticket office 
in St. Louis until 1874. In that year he em- 
barked in business in that city as a commis- 
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until 1879, when hq engaged in the real 
estate business. Some time later he became 
the owner of a valuable patent utilized in the 
manufacture of boxes, and as a result, in 
conjunction with his brother, William H. 
Holman, established the manufacturing en- 
terprise with which he has since been identi- 
fied, and which has contributed not a little 
to the celebrity of St. Louis as an industrial 
center. The business thus established was 
incorporated in 1885 as a joint stock com- 
pany, with William H. Holman as president, 
and John B. Holman as secretary and treas- 
urer. It continued to be thus officered and 
managed until 1891, when William H. Hol- 
man died, and John B. Holman succeeded to 
the presidency of the corporation, a position 
which he still retains. The manufacturing 
plant which Mr. Holman and his brother 
built up in this connection now employs 
nearly two hundred operatives and belongs 
to that class of enterprises which contribute 
most to the upbuilding of a city and to the 
enhancement of its prosperity. Other manu- 
facturing corporations in which he is inter- 
ested as a stockholder, and with which he is 
identified officially, are the Missouri Fire 
Brick Company, of which he is president, 
and the Vincennes Paper Company, of which 
he is a director. He is also a director of the 
National Bank of the Republic, and is known 
as a capable and sagacious financier. A mem- 
ber of the Masonic order, he affiliates with 
Occidental Lodge No. 163; St. Louis Chap- 
ter No. 8 of Royal Arch Masons, and St. 
Aldemar Commandery of Knights Templar. 
He honors the memory of his Revolutionary 
ancestors through his active membership in 
the Missouri Society of the Sons of the 
American Revolution. He is an accom- 
plished amateur photographer, and is vice- 
president of the St. Louis Photographic 



Society. Being an ardent lover of nature 
and a disciple of Isaac Walton as well, he 
delights occasionally in leaving the busy 
haunts of trade, with a fisherman's outfit and 
his camera as an adjunct, to travel by lake 
and stream, returning not only with trophies 
of his skill as an angler, but also with re- 
productions of scenery, which will in after 
years serve to awaken memories of days 
spent in communion with nature's beauties. 
December 20, 1876, Mr. Holman mar- 
ried Miss Frances Wash, daughter of Mar- 
tin W. and Margaret (Humphreys) Wash, 
of St. Louis. William "vVash, great-grand- 
father of Mrs. Holman, fought with the 
patriots in the Revolutionary war, and her 
grandfather, Martin Wash, was a soldier in 
the War of 1812, holding a captain's com- 
mission. Her father, Martin W. Wash, was 
a soldier in the Mexican war, and was 
wounded in action while serving under Col- 
onel Doniphan's MissouDi regiment. The 
only son of Mr. and Mrs. Holman is John 
Edgar Holman, who graduated from Smith 
Academy in the class of 1895, and is now 
associated with his father in business. Res- 
idence address, 3936 Westminster Place, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



SMITH P. GALT. 



Smith P. Gait, lawyer, was born No- 
vember 23, 1838, in Lancaster county, Pa., 
son of Alexander and Frances S. Gait. He 
was reared in the Keystone State obtaining 
his early education at Mt. Joy Academy, of 
Lancaster county, and attending later La- 
fayette College of Easton, Pa., graduating 
from that institution in the classical course 
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his graduation from college, he entered the 
law office of Hon. Thomas E. Franklin, of 
Lancaster, and completed his law studies 
under the preceptorship of that distinguished 
lawyer. Having completed his preparation 
for the bar, he was about to apply for admis- 
sion, when the breaking out of the Civil war 
temporarily changed the course of his life. 
Raising a company of volunteers in Lancas- 
ter county, he was mustered into the United 
States service as captain of Company C, One 
Hundred and Twenty-second Pennsylvania 
Infantry, August ii, 1862. His regiment 
was soon afterward sent into the field, and, 
as captain of his company, he participated in 
the battles of Chantilly, Fredericksburg and 
Chancellorsville, being wounded in the Chan- 
cellorsville engagement. May 12, 1863, he 
was mustered out of the government military 
service with his regiment, and, returning to 
his old home in Pennsylvania, was admitted 
to the bar at Lancaster in September follow- 
ing. In 1864 he located at Sterling, 111., and 
there began the practice of law. He contin- 
ued in practice at that place until the spring 
of 1866, when he removed to St. Louis and 
became a member of the bar of that city. 
Since then he has devoted himself assiduously 
to the law, which he has regarded as a "jeal- 
ous mistress," and nothing has been allowed 
to divert his attention from his professional 
duties and resposibilities. A career of more 
than thirty years at the bar of St. Louis has 
caused him to become recognized both by his 
profession and the general public as one of 
the ablest trial lawyers in Missouri, and a 
peculiarly safe and judicious counselor. For 
many years his attention has been given 
mainly to corporation practice, and he has 
been for a quarter of a century attorney for 
the St. Louis Railroad Company. He is also 
attorney for four other street railway com- 



panies and for many other corporations. 
Many important trusts have been committed 
to his care, and upon him rests the responsi- 
bility attaching to the legal guardianship of 
interests of vast magnitude. A broad knowl- 
edge of the law, judicial acumen and a spirit 
of perfect candor and fairness in the conduct 
of litigation and in his dealings with clients 
have commended him alike to the courts, the 
bar and the people, and both as practitioner 
and counselor he is held in the highest esteem. 
His fitness for official station has long been 
recognized by his fellow citizens, and at dif- 
ferent times he has been solicited to become a 
candidate for congressional, judicial and 
other honors, but, having no taste for public 
office holding, he has invariably declined 
these proffers of preference. He has taken 
no active part in politics, but has affiliated 
\vith the Republican party since he became a 
voter. He is a Presbyterian churchman and 
a member of the Second Presbyterian 
Church. He was for many years the confi- 
dential friend and counsel of the late Robert 
A. Barnes, of St. Louis, who left $1,000,000 
to erect and endow the "Barnes Hospital." 
Made executor of this estate, without bond, 
he was also named in Mr. Barnes' will as one 
of the trustees of the hospital, and with Rich- 
ard M. Scruggs and Samuel M. Kennard, the 
other trustees, has carried forward the work 
designed by one of the city's chief benefac- 
tors, and the hospital, when completed will 
be one of the most perfect institutions of its 
kind in America. Mr. Gait is identified with 
fraternal organizations as a memljer of the 
Legion of Honor, of the Ancient Order of 
United Workmen, the Royal Arcanum, the 
Loyal Legion and Ransom Post of the Grand 
Army of the Republic. He has twice served 
as commander of Ransom Post, and has 
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organization. He was married at Lancaster, 
Pa., December 10, 1872, to Miss Frances 
Olivia Franklin, daughter of Hon, Thomas 
E. Franklin, who was his preceptor in law, 
and previously attorney general of Pennsyl- 
vania. Their living children are one daugh- 
ter and four sons. Business address, 214 
North Fourth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JEROME B. DESNOYERS. 

Jerome B. Desnoyers. Manufacturer. 
Born near Montreal, Canada, October 2, 
1842. Shortly after his birth his parents re- 
moved to Gloucester, Russell county, On- 
tario, where Jerome B. was reared and edu- 
cated in the common schools. His parents 
died when he was quite a young boy, leaving 
him alone. When fifteen years old he went 
to Ottawa to learn the shoe maker's trade in 
a custom way and two years later came to 
the United States, first to Boston, later to 
Lynn, Mass., and finally to Rochester, N. Y., 
where he obtained employment as a shoe- 
maker with the firm of Pancost, Sage & 
Morse of that city. A year later went to 
Cleveland, Ohio, where he worked at his 
trade with the shoe manufacturing firm of 
Griffin Bros. & Kennard. In Rochester and 
Cleveland he attended night school regu- 
larly, and completed his education. In 1862 
enlisted in the Union army as a member of 
Battery E, of the First Ohio Light Artillery 
Regiment. He was in service until the close 
of the Civil war. Was mustered out of serv- 
ice at Camp Denison, Ohio, July 10, 1865, 
and went back to Cleveland, and re-entered 
the service of Griffin Bros. & Kennard. Two 
years later he established a new factory and 
became general manager and superintendent 



of the business of Read, Jones & Co., of 
Columbus, Ohio. In 1877, came to St. 
Louis, and associating himself with George 
W. Brown and A. L. Bryan, established the 
Bryan-Brown Company, and engaged in the 
manufacture of shoes in this city. Mr. 
Bryan retired after six years, on account of 
failing health, and the name of the company 
was changed to the Brown-Desnoyers Shoe 
Company. In 1893 Mr. Desnoyers with- 
drew his interests and organized the Desnoy- 
ers Shoe Company, with his two sons, V. E. 
and N. L. This enterprise has proven a suc- 
cessful one. He belongs to all the branches 
of the Masonic order, is a member of the 
Third Baptist Church of St. Louis, a mem- 
ber of the Mercantile Club, and president of 
the St. Louis Shoe Manufacturers & Jobbers 
Association. Shortly after the close of the 
war he married Miss Mary T. Woods, of 
Russell County, Canada. Residence address, 
5077 Vernon avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



J. HUGO GRIMM. 

J. Hugo Grimm. Lawyer. Born January 
17, 1864, in St. Louis, son of Captain Val- 
entine Grimm. He was reared in St. Louis, 
and educated in the public schools, graduat- 
ing from the old Central high school as one 
of the class orators in 1883. Immediately 
afterward he began the study of law under 
the preceptorship of Honorable Henry 
Hitchcock, one of the most distinguished 
members of the western bar, and in 1884 
entered the law department of Washington 
University. In 1886 he was graduated from 
thtat institution with the degree of bachelor 
of laws. He began practice in connection 
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Finklenburg, where he remained until their 
partnership was dissolved. In continuance 
of his practice alone since 1890 he has stead- 
ily grown into popular favor and esteem of 
his contemporaries at the bar. Shortly after 
his admission to the bar he wrote an essay 
on "Insanity as a Defense to the Charge of 
Crime," which he submitted to the Medico- 
Legal Society of New York, with the result 
that he was awarded second prize for his 
effort, in connection with writers on this 
subject representing all parts of the country. 
He also received the degree of bachelor of 
physics from St. Louis L^niversity. Mr. 
Grimm has been known for many years as a 
member of the board of directors of the Lie- 
derkranz Society, was also first Judge Advo- 
cate General of the Missouri Division of the 
Order of Sons of Veterans. Politically Mr. 
Grimm is identified with the Republican 
party. He married, in 1891, Miss Sophia 
Gruen, of St. Louis, and has four sons. Bus- 
iness address, 818 Fullerton building; res- 
idence address, 3543 Sidney, St. Louis, Mis- 
souri. 



GEORGE BRINTON SIDENER. 

George Brinton Sidener. Lawyer. Born 
October 27. 1864, in Crawfordsville, Ind. 
Son of M. V. and Katherine (Hester) Side- 
ner. His preliminary education was ac- 
quired in the public schools of Indiana, and 
in 1883 he entered Wabash College at Craw- 
fordsville, which he attended three years. 
He began his career as a telegraph operator. 
Admitted to the bar in 1894. In 1885 he 
located in Missouri, and afterwards removed 
to St. Louis, where he now practices his pro- 
fession. In 1899 ^^■'is appointed police judge 
of the city of St. Louis, Mo. He is a mem- 



ber of the Mystic Shrine and Thirty-second 
degree jNIason, and a member of the ]\Ietho- 
dist Episcopal Church. In pohtics he is a 
Republican. 

Mr. Sidener was married, June 19, 1888, 
in Herman, Mo., to Miss Luella Schwind. 
Business address, 813 Wainwright building; 
residence address, 3537 A. Vista avenue, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



ROBERT M. FUNKHOUSER. 

Robert M. Funkhouser, physician, was 
born December 10, 1850, in St. Louis, son 
of Robert M. and Sarah Johnson Funk- 
houser, his father having been the well 
known St. Louis merchant and banker. Dr. 
Funkhouser is a descendant in the maternal 
line of the Spencer and Russell families of 
England, his mother having been Sarah 
Johnson (Selmes) Funkhouser, a daughter 
of Colonel Tilden Russell Selmes, who 
served in the Civil war. His great-grand- 
father, on his mother's maternal side, was 
John Ennis, who served in the New Jersey 
troops during the Revolutionary war. 
Reared in St. Louis, Dr. Funkhouser re- 
ceived his early educational training in 
private schools of this city, and under the 
tutorage of the late Bishop Dunlap. Later 
he was graduated from the L^niversity of 
Virginia, and in 1871 from Dartmouth 
College, of Hanover, N. H. Soon after his 
graduation from Dartmouth he began the 
study of both law and medicine, and in 1873 
was graduated from the Columbia Law 
School, of New York, with the degree of 
bachelor of laws. Subsequently he was ad- 
mitted to the bar in New York State, and 
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medicine, he received his doctor's degree 
from the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of New York in 1874. Preferring 
medicine to the law, he entered upon the 
practice of his chosen profession in New 
York, but at the end of a year returned to 
St. Louis. Here he at once became identified 
with medical educational work, and at the 
same time began building up a practice 
which has since grown to large proportions. 
Beginning with 1875, he served three years 
as assistant demonstrator of anatoni}' in 
Missouri Medical College, and in 1876 
helped to found Beaumont Medical College, 
of St. Louis. Thereafter he filled the chair 
of clinical surgery in the last named institu- 
tion until 1891, and both in this educational 
field and in the field of operative surgery he 
has acquired well merited distinction. He 
has been consulting physician to the city and 
female hospitals and has given freely of his 
time and professional labor in aid of numer- 
ous charitable and beneficial institutions. 
Progressiveness has been one of his dom- 
inant characteristics throughout his profes- 
sional career, and he has kept in touch with 
the best minds of his profession through 
close observation of the results of medical 
and scientific investigation and attendance at 
the meetings of leading medical societies. He 
is a member of the American Medical As- 
sociation, the Missouri State Medical So- 
ciety, and the Medico-Chirurgical Society of 
St. Louis, in all of which associations of 
physicians and surgeons he is an active and 
influential worker. He is also identified 
with various other associations and societies, 
scientific and otherwise, among which are 
the Alasonic order, the Legion of Honor, the 
Royal League, and the Society of the Sons 
of the Revolution. He has made original 
researches in physiology, psychology and 



surgery, and has contributed to medical lit- 
erature various papers on topics coming 
within the field of his observations. In later 
years his practice has been confined prin- 
cipally to surgery and gynaecology, and in 
these fields of professional labor he is one of 
the most prominent of western physicians. 
Dr. Funkhouser has been twice married ; 
first, to Miss Virginia C. Cantrell, and after 
her death, to Miss Alice M. Cantrell, both 
daughters of Dr. A. M. Cantrell, of Vir- 
fiinia, and great-granddaughters of Leonard 
Daniel, of Cumberland county, Virginia, 
who entered the Revolutionary army at the 
age of seventeen years and was stationed 
first at Norfolk and later at Yorktown, wit- 
nessing the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. 
The father of Leonard Daniel, William 
Daniel, who was one of the early colonists 
of Cumberland county, served in the Colon- 
ial Army throughout the entire period of 
the Revolutionary war. Dr. Funkhouser 
has two sons, Robert and Selnies Paul 
Funkhouser. Residence address, 4354 Olive 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK JOSEPH LUTZ. 

Frank Joseph Lutz, physician, was born 
May 24, 1855, in St. Louis, son of John T. 
and Rosina (Miller) Lutz. After being 
fitted for college in the public schools of St. 
Louis he entered upon a classical course of 
study at St. Louis University, from which in- 
stitution he was graduated with the degree 
of bachelor of arts in the class of 1873. He 
began the study of medicine immediately 
after completing his academic course, and re- 
ceived his doctor's degree from the St. Louis 
Medical College in 1876. He soon afterward 



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began the practice of his profession in this 
city, acting at the same time as assistant phy- 
sician to the Alexian Brothers' Hospital, an 
institution with which he is still profession- 
ally connected. He has been largely instru- 
mental in improving the character of this 
hospital and extending its facilities for the 
care and treatment of patients, and has helped 
to build up, in this connection, the largest and 
best equipped hospital in St. Louis. At dif- 
ferent times he has made trips abroad to 
study hospital construction and note the 
equipment of the famous hospitals of the Old 
World, and the Alexian Brothers' Hospital 
has profited greatly by his research and ob- 
servations. As a practitioner he has devoted 
himself exclusively to surgery, his principal 
field of action being the above mentioned 
hospital, of which he is chief surgeon. He 
also served as surgeon general of the Na- 
tional Guard of Missouri from 1893 to 1897. 
At different times he has taken an active in- 
terest in public affairs as a member of the 
Democratic party, and during the administra- 
tion of Governor Crittenden was vice-presi- 
dent of the Board of Police Commissioners 
of St. Louis. From 1893 to 1897 he was a 
member of the Missouri State Board of 
Health, and was instrumental in setting on 
foot a movement designed to elevate the 
character of the medical profession in this 
state by fixing a higher standard of attain- 
ment than formerly as a condition precedent 
to entering upon the practice of medicine. 
Among the medical educators of St. Louis 
he holds a high rank, being connected with 
the Beaumont Hospital Medical College as 
professor of the principles and practice of 
surgery and clinical surgery, and as dean of 
the college faculty. He was president of the 
Missouri State Medical Association in 1888; 
president of the St. Louis Medical Society 



in 1889, and president of the Southwestern 
Association of Railway Surgeons for the 
year 1893. During the year 1896 he served 
as president of the National Association of 
Railway Surgeons, and in 1897 was presi- 
dent of the United States Board of Pension 
Examiners at St. Louis. He is chief surgeon 
of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railway 
Company. He married, in 1883, Miss May 
Silver, of Maryland. Business address, Jose- 
phine Hospital ; residence address, 3337 La- 
fayette avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



M. FREEMAN SMITH. 

M. Freeman Smith. Western manager 
of the Railway Commercial Cabinet & File 
Company. Born March 26, 1865, in Dowa- 
giac, Mich. Son of Mason F. and Katharine 
(Mcintosh) Smith. Educated in the South 
Haven High School, South Haven, Mich., 
graduating June i, 1884. 

Mr. Smith began his business career in 
the wholesale clothing business in Chicago, 
and afterwards engaged in the mercantile 
business in Rocky Ford, Colo. In May, 
1903, he located in Kansas City, Mo., rep- 
resenting the Railway Commercial Cabinet 
& File Company, of Chicago. He later be- 
came a member of the Atmospheric Con- 
densation Company, assuming the manage- 
ment of the sales department of that com- 
pany. Mr. Smith's company is the advocate 
of the superiority of steam condensation by 
means of saturating air as a cooling agent, 
and has control of the flask system, designed 
and patented by Arthur Pennell, for utilizing 
the properties of saturating air for the liqui- 
fying of steam for ice making purposes. This 
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ical and desirable. Among the important 
claims for it are reduction of water consump- 
tion, purifying of boiler feed and a great 
saving in fuel. Mr. Smith is also the organ- 
izer and western manager of the Railway 
Commercial Cabinet & File Company, of 
Chicago, and a stockholder in the Gerhaz 
Piano Company, of Joliet, 111. He is inde- 
pendent in politics and a Presbyterian in 
religious belief. 

Mr. Smith was married June 14, 1894, in 
Joliet, III, to Miss Gertrude Hyland. Chil- 
dren : Mason F., Minnie J. and Asel K. 
Smith. Business address, 300 Heist build- 
ing; residence address, 3031 East Sixth 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM HICKMAN CLOPTON. 

William Hickman Clopton. United 
States District Attorney for the Eighth Ju- 
dicial Circuit, born near Huntsville, Ala- 
bama, son of Dr. James Alexander and 
Mary (Penny) Clopton. He was given a 
good education, and when ten years of age 
was sent to Hoffey's Boarding School in 
Northern Alabama in the fall of i860. From 
there he went to the Southern University, at 
Greensbo rough, Alabama. When a boy of 
sixteen, he enlisted as a soldier under the 
Stars and Bars, going directly from the col- 
lege to the Confederate Army. In October, 
1865, he entered the University of Virginia, 
and in July, 1868, graduated from the law 
department of that University. A few weeks 
after his graduation, he came to St. Louis 
and was admitted to the bar in this city in 
October, 1868, where he has been ever since. 
In 1894 he was appointed as United States 
District Attorney. He accepted the office 

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and has discharged its duties with rare tact 
and splendid ability. Mr. Clopton was mar- 
ried January 29, 1873, to Miss Belle Bryan, 
of St. Louis. To them were born three chil- 
dren, Malvern B., William H., Jr., and 
Emily Clopton. Business address, 105 N. 
Seventh street. Residence address, 4154 
Maryland avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM BRADFORD HOMER. 

William Bradford Homer. Lawyer. 
Born near Brimfield, Hampden county, 
Massachusetts, July 29, 1849, son of Alured 
and Ruth (Bliss) Homer. He prepared for 
college at Hitchcock Free High School at 
Brimfield, and graduated at Williston Sem- 
inary, at Easthampton, Mass., in the class of 
1867. He then entered Amherst College 
and there graduated in the class of 1871. 
He then entered Columbia Law School of 
Columbia University, New York, and 
shortly after receiving his diploma went to 
Northampton, Mass., and was there ad- 
mitted to the bar, June, 1872. He arrived in 
St. Louis in November following his ad- 
mission to the bar where he located and has 
remained every since. He is a member of 
the Sons of the American Revolution ; is one 
of the founders of the flourishing New Eng- 
land Society of St. Louis, of which he is sec- 
retary. He is recognized as a brother by the 
Ancient Order of United Workmen and the 
Legion of Honor, is a member of the Mer- 
cantile Club and one of the examining board 
of the St. Louis Law School of the Wash- 
ington University. He is an active church- 
man and an officer of Pilgrim Congrega- 
tional or Central Congregational Church of 
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gregational Club, director of the City Mis- 
sionary Society of St. Louis for a number 
of years and is now president of that society. 
September 20, 1876, Mr. Homer married 
Miss H. Louise Hart, of Hartford. Conn. 
They have four children, Ruth Louise, Ro- 
land Mather, Mary Hart and Bradford 
Crouper Homer. Business address, 301 
Commonwealth Trust building; residence, 
421 Olive, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES RUSH GREGORY. 

. Charles Rush Gregory. Merchant. Born 
in Hopkinsville, Ky. Son of Charles and 
Sophia Pleasants (Hall) Gregory. He re- 
ceived very careful educational training at 
the hands of his parents, in early life, and, 
when fourteen years of age, entered the 
wholesale dry goods house of Tevis, Scott & 
Tevis, of St. Louis, as a clerk. Three years 
later he was charged with the responsibility 
of representing the trade interests of this 
house in a traveling capacity throughout the 
Missouri River Valley. After remaining 
with this house two years longer, he became 
connected with the wholesale dry goods 
house of Doan, King & Company, of St. 
Louis, and represented that house over the 
territory which he had previously traveled 
until the beginning of the Civil war, when 
the firm retired from business. While travel- 
ing through the country as representative of 
these St. Louis commercial establishments, 
he gained a knowledge and an acquaintance 
which proved of great benv^fit to him, and 
which helped lay the foundation of his suc- 
cessful merchandising in later years. After 
the retirement from business of Doan, King 
& Company, his principal business for a time 



was purchasing depreciated notes of sus- 
pended ^lissouri banks. Later he went to 
New York City, and had a brief experience 
on Wall street. In 1864 he returned to St. 
Louis and connected himself with Henry T. 
Simon, who had been a fellow employe with 
the firm of Tevis, Scott & Tevis. Mr. Simon 
had established himself in the wholesale 
notion business, and soon after Mr. Gregory 
joined him in a business partnership, they 
added dry goods to their stock in trade and 
this house soon became one of the best known 
wholesale dry goods and notion houses in the 
west. Under the name of H. T. Simon- 
Gregory Dry Goods Company it continued in 
business until December i, 1896, when the 
owners of the establishment retired from bus- 
iness with handsome fortunes. Since that 
time Mr. Gregory has lived in quiet retire- 
ment, enjoying the fruits of well-directed 
effort in the field of commercial activity. In 
1896 he sat as one of Missouri delegation in 
the National Democratic Convention, which 
met in Chicago and nominated William J. 
Bryan for president. Business address, 220 
North Fourth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GRANVILLE S. HOSS. 

Granville S. Hoss. Lawyer. Born in 
Pettis county. Mo., October 29, 1850, son of 
Samuel B. and Almeda (Snell) Hoss. The 
foundation of his scholastic training was laid 
in the public schools and the superstructure 
at Westminster College, Fulton, Mo. On 
completing the law course and leaving school, 
he entered the law office of Scott & Stone, at 
Nevada, Mo., and in 1874. was admitted to 
the bar. In 1881, Mr. Stone retiring, Mr. 
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and the firm was then known as Scott & 
Hoss. This partnership was dissolved in 
1886 by the death of Judge Scott ; then after 
three years the second partnership was 
formed with his other legal preceptor, Hon. 
William J. Stone. During Governor Stone's 
official term, Mr. Hoss continued his prac- 
tice, and later both he and Governor Stone 
removed to St. Louis, where they are now 
associated. Mr. Hoss is a stanch Democrat. 
He served for two terms as city attorney of 
Nevada, during which period he was elected 
prosecuting attorney of Vernon county and 
served until 1882. Is a member of the State 
Democratic Central Committee. In frater- 
nal circles he is known as a brother in both 
Masonic and Pythian orders. In the former 
organization he is a Knight Templar, and 
has served as a master of Blue Lodge. 

Mr. Hoss, October 10, 1883, married 
Miss Julia McBride, of Monroe county, Mo, 
They have two sons and two daughters, 
Granville S., Jr., Leroy K., Margaret Boone 
and Julia McBride Hoss. Business address, 
826 Lincoln Trust building: residence ad- 
dress, 3918 West Belle Place, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM E. GUY. 

William E. Guy. Railroad president. 
Born December 22, 1844, in Cincinnati, 
Ohio. Son of Dr. zMexander Guy and Susan 
Ann Livingston (Wade) Guy. After being 
fitted for college in the schools of Cincin- 
nati, he entered Miami University, of Ox- 
ford, Ohio, and was a student at that insti- 
tution when the Civil war began. Enlisting 
as a private in 1862, he was later assigned to 
the Eighty-sixth Regiment of Ohio Volun- 
teer Infantry, with which he served until 



mustered out, gaining promotion to first ser- 
geant. He then resumed his collegiate 
studies going to Princeton University, of 
Princeton, N. J, from which he graduated 
and received the degree of master of arts. 
He then went abroad and continued his 
studies at Heidelberg, Freiberg, and Paris, 
studying civil and mining engineering, and 
engaged in that work from 1869 to 1872. 
Returning then to his native city he entered 
the Cincinnati Law School from which he 
took the degree of bachelor of laws. In 
1870 he became assistant superintendent of 
the Georgetown, Colorado, reduction works, 
holding that position until 1870, when he was 
made assistant geologist of Missouri, and 
devoted the year of 1872 to geological sur- 
vey of this state. His coming to Missouri 
resulted in his becoming one of the founders 
of the St. Louis Bolt & Iron Company, now 
known as the Tudor Iron Works, in which he 
was identified until 1886. Withdrawing at 
this time from active business he spent two 
years following in traveling in Europe, and 
in 1889 returned to St. Louis. Soon after 
his return he organized and became president 
of the St. Louis & Eastern Railroad Com- 
pany, and the Madison Coal Company, botfi 
of which corporations are now doing a pros- 
perous business. Since May i, of 1897, he 
has been president of the St. Louis, Peoria 
& Northern Railroad Company, the St. Louis 
& Eastern Railroad Company having been 
merged into the above named corporation, as 
was also the St. Louis, Peoria & Chicago 
Railroad Company. He has been one of the 
builders, and is one of the chief owners of a 
line of railway which has been constantly 
growing in importance for some years past. 
He has taken a deep interest in various in- 
stitutions in St. Louis designed to promote 
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has been the Mercantile Library Association, 
of which he was vice-president in 1893, 
president in 1894, and until his resignation 
in 1895. His religious affiliations are with 
the Presbyterian Church, to which his ances- 
tors have belonged. He is a member of the 
University Club, the Noonday Club, the 
Commercial Club, and the Round-Table 
Club, of St. Louis, and of the Reform Club, 
of New York. Is also a mernber of Ransom 
Post of the Grand Army of the Republic, of 
St. Louis. 

In 1894 Mr. Guy married Miss Catherine 
Lemoine, of St. Louis. Their children are 
Catherine, Lemoine, William Edwin and 
David Wade Guy. Business address, 219 
Nortli Fourth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM H. McLARAN. 

William H. McLaran, financial agent of 
the Fidelity & Deposit Company of Mary- 
land, well known in the real estate and finan- 
cial circles of St. Louis, was born April 22, 
1870, in St. Louis, Mo., youngest son of 
Col. Charles and Annie (Jennings) Mc- 
Laran. The grandfather of William H. 
McLaran served through the Revolutionary 
Avar and in this connection another interest- 
ing incident of the McLaran family history 
may be appropriately mentioned. The fam- 
ily came to this country from Scotland, and 
its earliest representative in the United States 
was the great-grandfather of William H. 
McLaran, who was compelled to leave Scot- 
land on account of his having been impli- 
cated in the uprising which sought to place 
Prince Charles on the Scottish throne. In 
the maternal line, Mr. McLaran is descended 
from one of the oldest and most prominent 



families of Virginia. His maternal grand- 
mother was Annie Bradley Montague, before 
her marriage to James Jennings, and she was 
the daughter of Mickelborough Montague, a 
direct descendant of Peter Montague, of 
Boveney, England, who emigrated to Vir- 
ginia in 1 62 1, and later represented his coun- 
ty in the Virginia House of Burgesses. After 
receiving a finished education at Smith 
Academy, one of the departments of Wash- 
ington University, St. Louis, and at the St. 
Louis Manual Training School, William H. 
McLaran became identified with the Mc- 
Laran Real Estate & Investment Company, 
with which he was connected until 1895. He 
then severed this relationship to become man- 
ager for the Missouri branch of the Fidelity 
& Deposit Company of Maryland, one of the 
largest security companies in the world. 
Business address, 128-130 Laclede building; 
residence address, 1743 McLaran avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JOSEPH WINGATE FOLK. 

Joseph Wingate Folk, governor of Mis- 
souri, was born October 28, 1869, in Browns- 
ville, Tenn. His father Henry B. Folk, was 
a native of North Carolina, and one of Ten- 
nessee's most prominent lawyers. His 
mother, Martha Estes Folk, was of Virginia 
stock. Mr. Folk, after finishing in the com- 
mon schools of his native town, entered Van- 
derbilt University, where he graduated in law 
in 1890. In 1 89 1 he moved to St. Louis and 
practiced law in the civil courts until he built 
up a good practice. He was married in 1896, 
at Brownsville, to Miss Gertrude Glass. Mr. 
Folk became active in politics, and in 1896 
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Democratic ticket. In tlie summer of 1900 
he came into prominence as attorney for the 
street railway union, then engaged in a strike 
in St. Louis, and in October following was 
induced to accept the Democratic nomination 
for circuit attorney. He was elected, and 
soon thereafter commenced an investigation 
of election frauds. Many indictments fol- 
lowed, and a number of convictions. He 
then began a thorough investigation of offi- 
cial corruption in St. Louis and proceeded 
to enforce the law. The official corruption 
uncovered startled the entire country, and 
more official venality was laid bare than ever 
before in history. At the Democratic State 
Convention, held at Jefferson City, July 19, 
1904, Mr. Folk received 549 out of the 709 
votes in the convention, and was on the first 
ballot nominated as the choice of his party 
for governor. In the general election which 
followed he was the only Democrat on the 
state ticket elected, his plurality being 30,100, 
although the Republican candidate for presi- 
dent carried the state by 25,137. Governor 
Folk is a member of the Baptist Church, and 
of the Knights of Pythias and Masonic 
lodges. Residence address, executive man- 
sion, Jefferson City, Missouri. 



JAMES MORGAN BULL. 

James Morgan Bull. Treasurer of the 
Libby Williams Paper Company. Born in 
1861. in St. Louis, Mo. Son of James R. 
and Eunice D. (Chase) Bull. Educated in 
the public schools of St. Louis. Is a member 
of the firm of the Libby, Williams Paper 
Company, composed of John R. Williams, 
president; Wallace McCargo, secretary, and 
James Morgan Bull, treasurer. Incorporated 



in 1884, established in 1861. The early busi- 
ness career of Mr. Bull was a clerkship in 
Fast Freight Line office, 1877, and he was 
a clerk in the present company in 1879. In 
religious belief he is an Episcopal. In poli- 
tics he is independent. 

Mr. Bull was married, in 1891, in St. 
Louis, Mo., to Miss Kate May. Children: 
David, Ben and Richard Bull. Business ad- 
dress, 421 North Second street; residence 
address, 5519 Clemens avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



NICHOLAS MONTGOMERY BELL. 

Nicholas Montgomery Bell, vice-presi- 
dent of Peper Warehouse Company, is the 
son of William A. and Caroline P. Bell, the 
latter ticc Harvey, and was born in Lincoln 
county. Mo., in 1846. Mr. Bell's grand- 
father served with distinction in the War of 
1812, under General Harrison, emerging 
therefrom as a major, and was a member of 
the General Assembly of Missouri in 1826- 
1828. Mr. Bell's father was born in Mount 
Sterling, Ky., and his mother was from one 
of the old Virginia families. Mr. and Mrs. 
Bell had moved to Missouri with their par- 
ents in early childhood, locating in Lincoln 
and Pike counties. Prior to the birth of Nich- 
olas, and for many years afterwards, his 
father was engaged in farming and in mer- 
cantile pursuits. 

When fourteen years of age young Mr. 
Bell came to St. Louis and secured a position 
with Messrs. Barr, Duncan & Company, as 
assistant bookkeeper and collector. He re- 
mained with this firm four years, and in 
1864, having acquired a sound business train- 
ing, he went west and settled in Boise City, 
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and mining business. In 1865 he went still 
further west and joined his uncle, Mr. John 
C. Bell, then a merchant at Salem, Ore. The 
firm was known as J. C. & N. M. Bell, and 
for three years the partnership continued to 
the mutual satisfaction of both parties. 

Mr. Nicholas M. Bell, even at that early- 
age, was a careful student of politics and a 
firm believer in the soundness of Democratic 
principles. He was elected a delegate, from 
the state of Oregon, to the National Demo- 
cratic Convention, in 1868, and cast his vote 
for Seymour and Blair. After the conven- 
tion he returned to St. Louis, and in the year 
1869 entered into partnership with James 
McCreery in the commission business, the 
firm being known as Bell & McCreery. In 
1870, before the Democracy had regained 
ascendency in the state, he was elected to the 
Twenty-sixth General Assembly from the 
city of St. Louis, having defeated Hon. Stil- 
son Hutchins, then editor of the Times, for 
the nomination, and receiving at the polls 
several hundred more votes than his oppo- 
nent, Hon. Joseph Pulitzer. 

Mr. Bell's legislative work at Jefferson 
City was of such a prominent and popular 
character that in 1872 he was re-elected by a 
large, increased majority, serving in all four 
years and bringing to bear upon state legis- 
lation a vast deal of sound common sense and 
practical business acumen. During his serv- 
ice he was chairman of the committee on fed- 
eral relations and a member of the committee 
on internal improvements, two of the most 
important committees of the house. In 1876 
Mr. Bell was the nominee of the Democratic 
party of St. Louis for the office of county 
auditor. When the National Democratic 
Convention met in St. Louis in 1876, it hon- 
ored Mr. Bell with its secretaryship, and one 
of his happiest duties in that connection was 



his announcement of the nomination of 
Tilden and Hendricks. This was his en- 
trance upon national politics, wherein he was 
thereafter to figure with conspicuous ability. 
Four years later he was again made secretary 
of the Democratic National Convention, 
which met in Cincinnati and nominated Han- 
cock and English. 

Mr. Bell's peculiar aptitude for controll- 
ing large bodies of men, together with his 
remarkable elocutionary powers, attracted 
universal attention, and in 1884, for the third 
time, he was made secretary of the National 
Democratic Convention, the one which nom- 
inated the winning ticket of Cleveland and 
Hendricks, at Chicago, and was secretary of 
the committee appointed to notify the candi- 
dates of their nomination. Eight years later 
he acted in a similar capacity, with equal 
success. 

After the inauguration of President 
Cleveland, in 1885, Mr. Bell was appointed 
superintendent of foreign mails, a position he 
filled for four years and one month in an ex- 
ceedingly satisfactory manner, winning not 
only the approval of the administration, but 
also of hundreds of leading Republicans, who 
recognized his ability and zeal. Part of his 
work was the negotiation of postal treaties 
with foreign countries, a branch of govern- 
mental work in which he especially excelled, 
and he also had charge of all the correspond- 
ence of the postal department with foerign 
countries, the sea transportation of mails 
destined to foreign countries, and the audit- 
ing and adjustment of accounts in payment 
therefor. 

Perhaps the most conspicuous of Mr. 
Bell's official achievements was the negotia- 
tion of the first parcel post treaties between 
the United States and any foreign country. 
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and the benefits to international commerce 
cannot be estimated in the brief space here 
allotted. Mr. Bell further negotiated the 
extremely useful postal conventions between 
the United States, Canada and Mexico, 
which resulted practically in making the 
entire North American continent one postal 
territory. So careful was his attention to 
details that the treaty provisions admit of the 
interchange of mail between the two conti- 
nents and colony with the same rates of pos- 
tage and with similar conditions as between 
two states or two postoffices of this country. 
The negotiation of the parcel post treaties has 
resulted in the abolition of the old consular 
and invoice certificates which caused so much 
annoyance and expense in the exchange of 
parcel merchandise between the two coun- 
tries, while the treaties negotiated by him 
increased the commerce of the United States 
nearly $2,000,000 the first year. 

It is worthy of mention, also, that Mr. 
Bell inaugurated a system of reports of the 
transit of mails destined to foreign countries, 
providing for a statement of the actual time 
between postoffice of origin and the postoffice 
of destination, and awarding the contracts 
for conveying the mails to the steamer show- 
ing the greatest speed and quickest delivery, 
without regard to its registry or flag. The 
competition between vessels became so great 
under this impetus that contracts were often 
awarded to the steamer showing only one 
minute faster time between New York and 
London. This movement expediateu the 
foreign mail delivery from one to two busi- 
ness* days, and was applauded by the merch- 
ants and exporters of this country to such an 
extent that they petitioned the postmaster 
general to use his good offices to induce for- 
eign countries to inaugurate a similar sys- 
tem, while it came to be so popular in Great 



Britain that the London Times, in a two- 
column editorial, urged Parliament to adopt 
Mr. Bell's plan. 

After the inauguration of President Har- 
rison, Mr. Bell resigned his position as super- 
intendent of foreign mails, returned to St. 
Louis and devoted his attention to tlie to- 
bacco commission and storage business of the 
Peper Tobacco Warehouse Company, at the 
corner of Twelfth and Market streets. The 
Legislature having created the position of 
excise commissioner for St. Louis, Mr. Bell 
was appointed to the position. 

In 1888 Mr. Bell was married to Miss 
Maggie Peper, daughter of Capt. Christian 
Peper, of St. Louis, and the result of this 
happy union is a son, Christian Peper Bell. 
Business address, 1130 Market street; resi- 
dence address, 4442 West Princeton street, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



HON. CHARLES FREMONT 
COCHRAN. 

Hon. Charles Fremont Cochran, member 
of Congress from the Fourth Congressional 
district of Missouri from 1896 to 1904, was 
born in Kirksville, Adair county. Mo., Sep- 
tember 27, 1848, and is a son of Dr. W. A. 
and Laetitia (Smith) Cochran. 

Mr. Cochran attended the public schools 
and then learned the printer's trade. He 
continued to be interested in the newspaper 
work, both as compositor and editor, up to 
1872, finding time, in the meantime, to study 
law, and in that year he was elected justice 
of the peace at Atchison. From that time 
until 1884 he was actively engaged in a large 
private practice. Was elected prosecuting at- 
torney of Atchison county, Kans., and served 



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two terms. During this time he gained much 
prominence both as counselor and as a 
pleader. He early became prominent in 
political affairs in Kansas, a loyal son of 
Democracy, and very soon was counted one 
of the party's most cogent reasoners and 
effective debaters. However, his interests 
were still in journalistic work, to some de- 
gree, and in January, 1886, he became part 
owner and managing editor of the St. Joseph 
Gazette, and continued to direct the policy of 
this paper until 1896, when he was first 
elected to Congress. In 1890 Congressman 
Cochran was elected to the State Senate from 
the district embracing Buchanan county, and 
served effectively for four years. In 1896 he 
was sent to Congress by an admiring constit- 
uency, and it is only just to record that few 
men were ever accorded a more flattering 
recognition that he received during his first 
term. In 1898 he was re-elected, again in 
1900 and in 1902, and was again a candidate 
in 1904. At this time Mr. Cochran was op- 
posed by Hon. Francis M. Wilson, of Platte 
county, and the contest was the most stub- 
born and memorable in the history of the 
Platte purchase. The three candidates who 
finally came forward for the suffrage of the 
people were : Mr. Cochran, with 43 dele- 
gates from Buchanan county; Mr. Wilson, 
with 36 delegates from Platte. Atchison and 
Holt counties; and Charles F. Booher, of 
Savannah, with 31 delegates from Andrew 
and Nodaway counties. The convention met 
and a deadlock appeared after the first ballot, 
which continued, the convention adjourning 
from day to day, without change, until the 
1031st ballot was reached, when Nodaway 
county left Mr. Booher and cast its vote for 
Mr. Wilson, which gave him the nomination. 
In 1874 Congressman Cochran was mar- 
ried to Louisa M. Webb, who was born in 



Leavenworth, Kans., and they have one son, 
who is engaged in fruit-growing in Howell 
county. Mo. Our subject has similar inter- 
ests there. 

During his long public career Congress- 
man Cochran has ever been a champion of the 
laboring classes and an enemy of trusts and 
corporations in their efforts to disregard the 
rights of the people. He was one of the 
earliest and ablest advocates of the silver 
cause, and is well informed on matters of 
finance and political economy. Residence 
address, 512 Faraon street, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 

LEE MERIWETHER. 

Prominent and conspicuous in the legal 
profession of St. Louis is the name of Lee 
Meriwether. Born December 25, 1862, at 
Columbus, Miss. Son of Minor M. and Eliz- 
abeth (Avery) Meriwether. Educated in 
the common schools of his native state, he 
came to Missouri with his parents in 1883, 
from Tennessee, and located in that year in 
St. Louis. He read law for three years and 
was admitted to the bar in St. Louis, Mo., 
and has practiced his profession ever since. 
As a general practitioner and counselor he 
has met with good success, and although de- 
voted to his profession he is a close student 
in numerous literary and historical works and 
scientific treatises. Has advocated public 
ownership principles with pen and speech 
for fifteen years, and studied in person the 
practical workings of city ownership of street 
railroads in Glasgow, Berlin. Vienna and 
other European cities. His work on "Fran- 
chise Taxation," published in 1896, is a 
standard authority in public libraries and 
universities, and has received universal com- 



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mendation from the public generally. In 
politics he is a Democrat, and in 1905 was a 
candidate for mayor before his party in St. 
Louis. 

Mr. Meriwether was married December 
4, 1895, in New York City, to Miss Jessie 
Gair. One child has been born, Lee Meri- 
wether, Jr. Business address, Wainwright 
building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MAJ. JOHN L. BITTINGER. 

Maj. John L. Bittinger, one of St. 
Joseph's most distinguished public men, was 
consul general of the United States at Mon- 
treal. Canada, from 1897 until May, 1903. 
He is now living a practically retired life 
after many years of activity in the field of 
journalism. He was for many years the pub- 
lisher and editor of the St. Joseph Herald, 
whose prestige he established. Since the 
organization of the party, he has been a leader 
in the Republican politics of the state, one 
with whom the national leaders counsel. 

Major Bittinger was born near Cham- 
bersburg. Pa., Nov. 28. 1833, and is a son of 
John and Susan (Ritter) Bittinger, with 
whom he subsequently removed to Rows- 
burg, Ohio. There he attended the village 
schools until he was twelve years old, when 
his father died. He then secured employ- 
ment, near his home, with a farmer who 
afterward removed to Green county, Wis., 
taking our subject with him. There the lat- 
ter worked on the farm and attended school 
for three years, besides reading such books 
as were obtainable. Li 1852 he became an 
apprentice in the office of the Freeport Jour- 
nal, at Freeport. 111., and at the end of six 
months was advanced to the position of fore- 



man. During the remainder of his three 
years' connection with that publication, he 
made all selections for the paper, collected 
and wrote the local news and assisted largely 
in the editorial work. In 1854 he was 
selected as a delegate to the congressional 
convention held at Rockford, which nomi- 
nated Hon. Elihu B. Washburne, that 
worthy having just completed a term in Con- 
gress as a Whig representative. This was 
the first convention of the Republicans in the 
state of Illinois. In 1855 Mr. Bittinger 
accepted the position of assistant foreman of 
the St. Louis Intelligencer, and in 1857 be- 
came foreman of the St. Louis Democrat. 
The following year he was elected delegate to 
represent the St. Louis Typographical Union 
the the National convention in Chicago, and 
the succeeding year at Boston. He became 
publisher of the 5"/. Louis Evening Bulletin, 
but disposed of his interests in the fall of 
1859. In June, i860, he removed to St. 
Joseph, Mo., where he has since resided, with 
the exception of such times when he has been 
temporarily absent, engaged in the discharge 
of official duties that have called him else- 
where. He was appointed postmaster by his 
boyhood personal friend. President Lincoln, 
and as the Civil war had just begun he was 
looked to by his party for all information and 
recommendations from this section of the 
state, the utmost confidence being reposed in 
his judgment by party leaders. In the sum- 
mer of 1 86 1 he turned the management of 
postal affairs to his deputy and clerks and 
volunteered for army service as a private. 
He was soon afterwards advanced to the rank 
of major, and served as aide-de-camp to 
Gen. Willard P. Hall, commander of the De- 
partment of Northwest Missouri. 

In 1862 Major Bittinger was elected a 
delegate to the first Republican state conven- 



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tion, and served as its secretary. He was 
appointed a member of the state central com- 
mittee that year, and has served as a member 
of the committee ever since. He was elected 
in the fall of 1862 to represent his district 
in the State Legislature, and was re-elected 
at intervals for five terms, serving twelve 
years in all. During his first term he served 
as speaker pro tern of the House and gave 
evidence of striking parliamentary ability. 
He secured many benefits for the city of St. 
Joseph, among other things the incorporation 
and inauguration of the street railway sys- 
tem. He secured the location at St. Joseph 
of the State Hospital for Insane, No. 2. He 
was the first to suggest the construction of a 
bridge over the Missouri river at this point 
and helped in organizing the company, of 
which he was a director and auditor of ac- 
counts. The bridge stands today as a monu- 
ment to his persevering efforts. 

In 1862 Major Bittinger purchased a half 
interest in the Si. Joseph Herald, and becom- 
ing managing editor soon made it the most 
powerful and influential journal west of the 
Mississippi river. He temporarily retired 
from journalistic work in 1878, but in 1881 
accepted a call to the position of managing 
editor of the Kansas City Journal. Resign- 
ing, in 1885, he made a tour of Europe, hold- 
ing himself free from business engagements 
until 1889, when he again assumed control of 
the St. Joseph Herald. His long press and 
political experience have given him a wide ac- 
quaintance and a commanding influence. He 
was the first temporary president of the Mis- 
souri Press Association, which was organized 
in 1867. He has traveled extensively in 
America and abroad, an interesting account 
of his journeys having been given the public 
from his pen. He was a delegate to the 
Republican National Convention of 1872, at 



Philadelphia, which renominated President 
Grant, and also to the convention at St. 
Louis, in 1896, which nominated William 
McKinley for president. In 1897 he was 
appointed by President McKinley as consul 
general of the United States at Montreal. 

On June 10, 1862, Major Bittinger was 
joined in marriage with Annie M. Smith, of 
Freeport, 111., and they live in their beautiful 
home at No. 224 South Tenth street, St. 
Joseph. Fraternally, he is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias, Legion of Honor, Be- 
nevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and 
Royal Court. He is now practically retired 
from the activity of his strenuous life, but 
still does some literary work, among other 
things writing a sketch of St. Joseph for the 
"World's Fair Book," which was published 
in 1904. 



FRANK N. HORN. 

Frank N. Horn. Manager of. the Fleish- 
man Company. Born October 12, 1863, in 
Kalamazoo, Mich. Son of Frank and Marie 
(Ulrich) Horn. Educated in the public and 
private schools in Kalamazoo. In 1872 at- 
tended Mt. Holyoke. Eentered the Baptist 
College, Kalamazoo, graduating in the class 
of 1879. The position he occupies as mana- 
ger of this great manufacturing company, is 
an important one. Owing to the extent of 
territory it takes in, the company has been 
particular in selecting a worthy representa- 
tive to look after their extensive interests, 
which now cover the entire globe. The 
"Fleishman Yeast" has become a household 
word in almost every family of the land, and 
it requires a large amount of ability and effi- 
ciency to distribute their product over such 
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that have estabHshed an enviable reputation, 
could supply their wants in this respect, in 
this large and growing business. Mr. Horn, 
previous to his appointment as manager of 
the St. Louis office, had been a salesman for 
them for many years, and has justified them 
in selecting him to represent their interests in 
the middle west and west, and he is in every 
respect able to fill his position. 

Mr. Horn is a member of the Masonic 
order, also K. of P. Married, in 1900, in 
Denver, Colo., to Miss Lulu Brownlee. Busi- 
ness address. Sixteenth and Market ; resi- 
dence address, 4020 McPherson avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK C. HARRINGTON. 

Frank C. Barrington, president and man- 
ager of the Columbian Electrical Company, 
at St. Joseph, was born July 11, 1873, at St. 
Joseph, AIo., and is a son of Charles Connor 
and Almedia (Timerson) Barrington. His 
father and mother were both descended from 
well known families, having been prominent 
in the war of the Revolution. 

After completing his common school edu- 
cation in the schools of St. Joseph, he started 
out to engage in the battle of life for himself. 
He found his first opportunity where many 
another successful man has found his, — in 
railroad work,-^and he was connected with 
the Burlington system many years. From 
there he went into the sales department of 
the Buell Manufacturing Company, where a 
few years of business experience prepared 
him for his next advancement, when he be- 
came secretary to W. T. Van Brunt, general 
manager of the St. Joseph Railway, Light, 



Heat & Power Company. During his rail- 
road connection he had learned stenography, 
and it was also during those years that he 
first became interested in electricity, having 
charge of the lighting department of the local 
offices. 

In 1893, in partnership with George C. 
Rough, who was auditor of the railroad com- 
pany, and Charles E. Roehle, then the elec- 
trical engineer for the railroad company, he 
organized the Columbian Electrical Com- 
pany. In 1896 he became president, having 
purchased Mr. Rough's interest. At its be- 
ginning the business was retail in its scope, 
but the business seemed to be so firmly 
founded that by 1898 contracts were taken 
for wholesale work, and now the Columbian 
Electrical Company is one of the largest elec- 
trical jobbing houses west of the Mississippi 
river. Business extends all over the middle 
west and is constantly reaching into new ter- 
ritory. This company has installed many 
electrical plants in this section. It equipped 
the Willis Theatre at Kansas City, and has 
equally large contracts at other points. The 
success of this company must be directly 
attributed to the energy, enterprise and busi- 
ness ability of its young president. He is 
interested in other business combinations, and 
is on the directing board of the Missouri & 
Kansas Oil & Gas Company. 

Mr. Barrington wss married to Vinnie 
Schultz, a member of one of the old families 
of St. Joseph. The family belong to Christ 
Protestant Episcopal Church. 

In politics Mr. Barrington is one of the 
city's active and influential Republicans, a 
member of the Republican County Commit- 
tee, and during the mayoralty of Mayor 
Combe was a member of the city council. His 
fraternal membership is with the Elks, and 
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organization in this city. Business address, 
1928 Clay street ; residence address. Freder- 
ick avenue, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



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CHARLES V. F. LUDWIG. 

Charles V. F. Ludwig, physician, was 
born May 5, 1836, in Landau, one of the 
fortified cities of Rhenish Bavaria. His 
father was Dr. John V. Ludwig, a surgeon 
in the Bavarian army, and his paternal 
grandfather, also named John V. Ludwig, 
was for many years royal procurator, or royal 
attorney, in Nuremberg, Bavaria. His 
mother's maiden name was Josephine J. Bel- 
Ion. After graduating from the High School 
at Landau, Dr. Charles V. F. Ludwig en- 
tered the university in the famous old city 
of Speyer, capital of the Rhine Palatinate of 
Bavaria, and was a student at that institution 
until his parents immigrated to the United 
States. The family settled in St. Louis and 
he continued his studies here, fitting himself 
for the medical profession and graduating 
from St. Louis IVIedical College in the class 
of 1858. Soon after his graduation from the 
Medical College he was appointed resident 
physician at the O'Fallon Dispensary, con- 
nected with the St. Louis Medical College, 
and assistant to Dr. Charles A. Pope, dean 
of the faculty and chief surgeon at that insti- 
tution. He was also made curator of the 
college and was holding that position when 
President Lincoln issued his first call for vol- 
unteers to aid in suppressing the uprising of 
the southern states. Responding to this call 
Dr. Ludwig enlisted in the Union army and 
was commissioned assistant surgeon in the 
Third Regiment of Missouri Volunteer In- 
fantry. He accompanied the regiment 



through all its engagements in the southwest 
under Generals Lyon and Sigel, and was a 
participant in the hard-fought battles of Car- 
thage and Wilson's Creek, Missouri. He 
was promoted to surgeon of the First Regi- 
ment of Missouri Lifantry, and after the 
battle of Pea Ridge, Ark., was assigned to 
duty as surgeon in charge of the hospital at 
Pacific, Mo. After the war he returned to 
St. Louis and resumed the practice of medi- 
cine and has since attained high standing 
among his professional brethren. He has 
given much attention at one time and another 
to matters of sanitation, and, in 1866, in- 
vented a system of water filtration for cities, 
the merits of which were generally recog- 
nized. He has since made improvements in 
this process of purifying the water taken 
from rivers and lakes, and has applied to the 
government for a patent on the same. He 
has always been not only a close student of 
medicine, but a student of nature as well, 
being infatuated with its laws and forces. 
A favorite field of investigation with him has 
been that of aerial navigation, and he claims 
priority of discovery for some important de- 
velopments in this field of scientific experi- 
ment. He is a member of the St. Louis Med- 
ical Society, of the Alumni Association of 
the St. Louis Medical College, and of the 
Missouri State Medical Society, and afiiliates 
with non-professional organizations as a 
member of the order of Knights of Honor, 
of the Ancient Order of United Workmen, of 
the Masonic order, and the Grand Army of 
the Republic. Politically he has been iden- 
tified with the Republican party since early 
manhood, and in i860 was president of the 
Fifth Ward "Charcoal Club." one of the 
famous Lincoln clubs of that campaign. 

September 22, 1858, Dr. Ludwig married 
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dore Gantie, of St. Louis. Both the parents 
of Mrs. Ludwig were natives of Paris, 
France, and her father was for many years 
a prosperous merchant and importer of fine 
cloths, with a place of business on Main 
street, between Market and Walnut streets, 
in St. Louis. Four daughters were born of 
this marriage, one of whom is now Mrs. 
Louis Barklage, and another Mrs. Frederick 
Smith, both of St. Louis. Office address, 
Choteau avenue; residence address 15 15 
Choteau avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HUGH L. McELRAY. 

Hugh L. McElray, born in Springfield, 
Ky., in 1832, a son of Anthony McElray, a 
successful merchant and banker of that place. 
After locating in Kansas City, in 1868, he 
assisted in organizing and became one of the 
directors of the Kansas City National Bank. 
Since then he has been closely connected with 
a large number of the financial institutions of 
the place, giving valuable assistance in an 
advising way. Speculating in real estate has 
been his favorite pursuit, and in order to 
make a success of that by giving his undi- 
vided attention to it, he has declined many 
offers of prominent positions. In politics 
Mr. McElray is a Democrat. In his personal 
life, he gives evidence of his Scotch-Irish 
descent. Unflinching integrity is a marked 
trait of his character and commanding the 
confidence and esteem of all who know him, 
living up to the motto emblazoned upon his 
McElray coat of arms "Trusty and True." 
The ancestry of Mr. McElray dates far back 
into Irish and Scotch history. His genealogy 
prior to the year 1641 was destroyed in the 
burning of the church at Raloo, Ireland, dur- 



ing the wars of tliat date. In the old church 
yard there are the graves of many of his 
ancestors. Charles McElray, one of his 
ancestors, a brave soldier under General 
Monroe, in a great battle near Larn, Ireland, 
during the war of 1641, gained high honors. 
William, another his ancestors, and a soldier, 
was awarded five medals for daring deeds. 
He was the first man to place his foot on the 
Heights of Alma. In 1730, James McElray, 
in company with relatives. (Irvines, Mc- 
Dowells and McCunes) all families of note 
throughout the United States), came over 
on the vessel "George and Anne" and settled 
in Pennsylvania, but soon moved to Virginia. 
Later on Hugh, the great-grandfather of 
Hugh L., with his brothers, Samuel and 
James, and their brother-in-law, John Irvine 
(all of these having married Irvines), 
emigrated to Kentucky, then the west- 
ern part of Virginia. With their mus- 
kets strapped to their backs (to de- 
fend themselves and families against the 
Indians) they cleared the forests and 
plowed the fields. Kentucky was then 
truly "The dark and bloody ground," and 
near the little town of Springfield now rests 
the remains of Mr. McElray's father, grand- 
father and great-grandfather, the latter 
being the old pioneer, Hugh McElray. The 
McElray family was originally from Argyle 
and Lanark counties, Scotland, and emi- 
grated to County Down, Ireland. 

Mr. McElray was married, October 10, 
1872, to Miss Mary Handy, daughter of 
Major John D. Handy, who was a prominent 
and wealthy citizen of Harrodsburg, Mercer 
county, Ky. The home of Mr. and Mrs. 
McElray, at 15 12 East Eighth street, Kan- 
sas City, is one of the most spacious and 
handsome of the many palatial residences in 
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of art and curiosities collected by them in 
their tours through America and abroad. 
With all the accomplishments, fitting them 
for leadership in polite society, Mrs. Mc- 
Elray makes her home the scene of many 
delightful gatherings of the most cultured 
people of the city. At the same time she in 
no manner is neglectful of charitable and 
other objects requiring personal effort and 
pecuniary assistance. With her husband she 
is a member of the Central Presbyterian 
Church and is an active agent in providing 
for its support. Business address, 406 New 
Nelson building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



PETER D. RIDENOUR. 

Peter D. Ridenour, president of the Ride- 
nour-Baker Grocery Company, of Kansas 
City, Mo., is a native of Union county, Ind., 
his birth occurring May 5, 1831. He is of 
Dutch, Scotch and German descent, and pos- 
sesses the sturdy qualities of that mixed an- 
cestry. In 1739 his paternal ancestor, Nich- 
olas Ridenour, sailed from Rotterdam, Hol- 
land, with his family, and in due time 
landed at Philadelphia. He settled in what 
is now Washington county. Md., near Hag- 
erstown, and there resided until his death. 
Of the family he reared the eldest son was 
named Nicholas, who likewise reared a fam- 
ily in that neighborhood, one of his sons 
being Jacob, whose eldest son was Peter, 
born about 1770. Peter married Margaret 
Dorcas, and their eldest son was Samuel, who 
was born in 1793. In 1802 Peter and his 
family moved to Hamilton county, Ohio, but 
after two years moved to Preble county, that 
state, locating four miles from Oxford. 
There they reared a family of eighteen chil- 



dren — nine boys and nine girls. Samuel, 
their eldest son, married Barbara ]\Iiller, m 
18 19, she being the daughter of Tobias and 
Sarah (Henderson) Miller. Samuel and 
Barbara were the parents of Peter D. They 
located in Union county, Ind., near the state 
line, one-half mile south of the present vil- 
lage of College Corners. Their land was a 
dense beech woods, but they went to work, 
and in time built a comfortable home. There 
Samuel and Barbara resided until their re- 
spective deaths, the former in 1850 and the 
latter in 1883, and were buried in a cemetery 
on the old homestead. They were the par- 
ents of sixteen children, twelve of whom 
grew to maturity, and of this family eleven 
were girls and five boys. Peter D. was the 
fifth son and seventh child. In youth he 
assisted his father to clear the land and to 
farm and became inured to hard work, such 
as chopping wood, splitting rails and cord 
wood, grubbing, etc. His education was ob- 
tained at the district schools, two or three 
months in the winter of each year, the school 
house being of logs and having a puncheon 
floor. In the winter of 1849-50 he started 
for California, going via New York and the 
Isthmus of Panama, and after about a year 
in the mines, he returned via Central 
America to New Orleans, and coming up 
the Mississippi to Cincinnati, and thence by 
stage to his home. His father had died in 
his absence and his elder brothers had gone 
out for themselves, whereupon he assisted 
his mother for a few months. In January, 
1852, he went to Cincinnati and became a 
junior member in the grocery firm of Moore 
& Ridenour. In 1853 he sold out and started 
for the west and for nearly three years was 
engaged in buying and selling government 
land in northern Iowa. At that date there 
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sissippi river. In the spring of 1857 he went 
to Kansas and spent the year in travehng 
over that territory, making his headquarters 
at Lawrence. He hked the country and de- 
cided to make it his home. During the win- 
ter of 1857-58 he returned to his old home 
and married Sarah L. Beatty, at Xenia, and 
the foHowing March went with his bride to 
Lawrence, Kans., and there they resided until 
1880. Li the spring of 1858 he met at 
Lawrence, Harlow W. Baker, of Maine, and 
formed a partnership with him in the grocery 
business under the name of Ridenour & 
Baker, which was the beginning of the pres- 
ent house. A few years later three of Mr. 
Baker's brothers came on from Maine, and 
Samuel Ridenour, brother of Peter D., came 
on from Iowa. Three branch houses were 
established and conducted by Samuel Ride- 
onur and the three Baker brothers, the parent 
house at Lawrence continuing under the 
management of the original partners until 
1878, when all the Kansas houses were dis- 
continued, and were consolidated in the pres- 
ent establishment at Kansas City, which has 
become the largest wholesale house west of 
the Mississippi river. Mr. E. W. Baker died 
in 1872 ; Alden A. Baker died in 1903. Har- 
low W. Baker, one of the original founders, 
also died as recently as March 25, 1904. He 
and Peter D. Ridenour were in business to- 
gether for a period of forty-six years, en- 
countering all the trying vicissitudes of pio- 
neer life in the wild west; were wholly 
burned out by Quantrell's gang during the 
war at the time Lawrence was burned and 
sacked ; were compelled to start again with- 
out a dollar, though with excellent names 
and credit, and their relations were always 
pleasant and agreeable. From the start the 
firm was successful because their relations 
were pleasant, their conduct clean and their 



performances full of the restless energy 
which has done so much to build up in a gen- 
eration much of the great west. The two 
original partners were more like brothers 
than many brothers are. Each implicitly 
trusted the other and was never de- 
ceived or even disappointed in the other. It 
is said that an unkind word never passed 
between them, and this conduct was ex- 
tended to the other partners. It would be 
difficult to describe the feeling of loss suf- 
fered by Mr. Ridenour at the death of Har- 
low W. Baker. An effectionate association 
of nearly half a century cannot be healed 
suddenly. 

Of the six children born to Mr. and Mrs. 
Ridenour, two died young and four were 
reared to maturity. Those now living are: 
Kate, the wife of John C. Lester, of Kan- 
sas City, connected with the business, and 
Ethel B., at home with her parents. Mr. 
Ridenour has nine grand-children, all of 
whom are a great source of pride and pleas- 
ure to him. Mr. Ridenour cares little for 
politics, but is interested in all worthy public 
movements, and in the prosperity of Kansas 
City. Residence address, 318 East Ninth 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM PEET. 



William Peet. Soap manufacturer. Born 
in 1847 i" Chattress, Cambridgeshire, Eng- 
land. He was educated in the common 
schools of his native country and accompa- 
nied his brother, Robert, to America in 1862. 
While a resident of Cleveland, Ohio, he 
worked at carpentering. He was associated 
with his brother Robert in establishing, in 
Kansas City, Mo., in 1872, the soap factory 



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from which has grown the present Peet 
Brothers' Manufacturing Company (incor- 
porated), and was elected president of that 
institution, and is now serving in that capac- 
ity. He has had charge of the business man- 
agement until the present time. In ability, 
integrity and enterprise he takes rank with 
the foremost of the business men of Kansas 
City. 

Mr. Peet was married, in Cleveland, 
Ohio, to Miss Nettie Zooter. Four children 
have been born: Albert W. completed his 
education in the military academy at Macon, 
Mo. He is now vice-president of the Peet 
Brothers' Manufacturing Company. Nettie, 
a graduate of Forest Park University, St. 
Louis, and two children deceased. Residence 
address, io8 West Thirty-fifth street, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



ARTHUR MASON ALLEN. 

Arthur Mason Allen. Attorney. Born 
near Centerville, Fairfax county, Va., Jan. 
14, 1 83 1. Son of William T. and Rosa 
(Pritchell) Allen. The maternal grand- 
father of Arthur M., Travis Pritchell, served 
in the War of 1812. 

Arthur M. Allen acquired a rudimentary 
education in the public schools of his native 
state; afterwards was sent to an academy 
where he was taught the Latin, Greek, 
French and Spanish languages. After com- 
pleting his scholastic education he taught 
school and studied law in the interim, and 
was licensed to practice law in all the courts 
of Virginia. He began the practice of his 
profession at Fairfax, and was appointed 
deputy county surveyor. In 1855 he came 



west and received an appointment as deputy 
United States surveyor, and continued in this 
service until 1858, and taught in the West- 
port, Mo., schools; up to 1858 deputy sheriff 
Jackson county, Mo. He also engaged in 
other official duties up to the time of his ad- 
mission to the Kansas City Bar. In 1867 be- 
gan his legal career in Kansas City, which 
profession he has been engaged in ever since. 
In 1874 elected county judge, and became the 
presiding judge of the county in 1877, after 
which he again resumed the practice of law. 
Has had an extensive practice in the Circuit 
court, Court of Appeals and the Supreme 
court. Prominent and successful also as an 
advocate who ranks among the best lawyers 
at the bar. 

Mr. Allen's political affiliations are with 
the Democratic party. In 1881 he was 
elected to the Missouri House of Represen- 
tatives and served upon the most important 
committees of that body. In the called ses- 
sion of 1882 he was chairman of the commit- 
tee on congressional apportionment. He was 
chairman of the Democratic County Commit- 
tee in 1882 when his party was successful in 
the election. In 1884 he was elected state 
senator from Jackson county, which con- 
stituted the Thirty-first district. From 1884 
to 1890 he was a member of the Democratic 
State Central Committee, but has since re- 
tired from active practice. For twenty-nine 
consecutive years he was a member of the 
Westport board of education, and served as 
its treasurer. He established the Allen Li- 
brary at Westport 

In 1857 Mr. Allen was married to Miss 
Mary Ellen McGee. Children living: Mrs. 
Annie Morris, A. M. Allen, Jr., J. W. Allen, 
W. F. Allen, E. H. Allen, Robert Allen, Rosa 
Allen and Mary Allen. Business address, 





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Waterworks building; residence address, 
Fifteenth and Broadway, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



THOiMAS R. PULLIS, JR. 

Thomas R. Pulhs, Jr., president of the 
Iron & Steel Works, son of Thomas R. and 
Harriet (Berdan) Pullis, was born in St. 
Louis, December 9, 1851. He was educated 
in the public schools and at St. Louis Univer- 
sity, and in 1868 entered his father's manu- 
facturing establishment as an apprentice. 
After completing his apprenticeship he be- 
came connected with the business department 
of the establishment and in 1874, upon the 
retirement of his uncle, John Pullis, was 
admitted to partnership with his father, be- 
coming a member of the firm of Thomas R. 
Pullis & Sons. Four years later, upon the 
death of his father, he and his brothers be- 
came sole owners and managers of the busi- 
ness, which was later conducted under the 
name of Pullis Bros. Li 1895, through the 
death of his brothers, the present Thomas R. 
Pullis was left the only remaining member 
of this firm, and, after associating with him 
his younger brother, Christen A. Pullis, he 
organized and incorporated the Pullis Bros. 
Iron Company, with a capital stock of 
$200,000, which became the representative 
of all the family interests in this noted old 
manufacturing plant. Of this corporation 
he became president, and in addition to giv- 
ing general supervision to its affairs, estab- 
lished a branch office in Chicago, which con- 
trolled the northwest trade of the establish- 
ment, and of which he took personal charge 
for a time, with Chicago as his place of resi- 
dence. Great damage was done to their 
manufacturing plant by the cyclone which 

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swept over St. Louis in 1896, and this caused 
a suspension of its operations for the time 
being. Mr. Pullis has since been extensively 
engaged in the iron business as a contractor 
and is well known among the ironmongers of 
of the country. He was married, in 1877, 
to Miss Cora Marshall, daughter of Merrill 
H. and Mary (Sutton) Marshall, and grand- 
daughter of James C. Sutton, a large land 
owner and pioneer settler in St. Louis 
county. Three children have been born of 
their union, who are named, respectively, 
Merrill Marshall, Clarence Thomas and Cora 
Marshall Pullis. Residence address, 7360 
Manchester avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN E. PILCHER. 

John E. Pilcher, merchant, vice-president 
of the Simmons Hardware Company, was 
born July 19, 1844, in the seaport city of 
Dover, and passed his boyhood there, receiv- 
ing an ordinary education in a private school. 
After clerking in a store in that city two and 
a half years he sailed for this country on the 
ship "City of London," and arrived in New 
York in April of 1859. Upon landing in 
that city he was without friends and had little 
money, so that it was imperative that he 
should find employment as soon as possible. 
The fact that he had a relative living in St. 
Louis brought him to this city, where he ar- 
rived the latter part of May following with 
less than a dollar in his pocket. In the 
course of a few days he obtained a position 
in a Market street shoe store at a salary of 
three dollars a week and board. After work- 
ing for this firm a year he transferred his 
services to the old drug firm of Charles, Blow 
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a week, but without board. In January of 
1864 he made a marked step forward, and 
became shipping clerk for the firm of Lever- 
ing, Waters & Co., at a salary of twenty- 
five dollars a month. This firm was engaged 
in the hardware business, and was predeces- 
sor of the now famous Simmons hardware 
house. At the end of two years' service with 
this firm he became a traveling salesman in 
their employ, and was thus employed for 
eleven years thereafter, becoming known 
throughout the west as one of the most suc- 
cessful traveling salesmen on the road. At 
the end of this long period of service as a 
commercial traveler he became cutlery buyer 
for the Simmons Hardware Company, tak- 
ing exclusive charge of the cutlery depart- 
ment and everything pertaining to the trans- 
action of the large wholesale business in that 
connection. His business career has been an 
eminently successful one, and he is now a 
stockholder in, and vice-president of, the 
Simmons Hardware Company. He has been 
active in the work of the Business Men's 
League ever since that organization came 
into existence, and is a member of its execu- 
tive board. He is also a member of the Mer- 
cantile Club, and of the Order of Odd Fel- 
lows. 

August 6, 1866, Mr. Pilcher married 
Miss Charlotte Gunnell, of London, Eng- 
land, and has a family of four daughters and 
one son. Residence address, 5034 Washing- 
ton avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LEWIS C. NELSON. 

Lewis C. Nelson. Banker and financier. 
Born in Boonville, Mo., September 18, 1848. 
Son of James Martin and Margaret (Wynn) 
Nelson. His father is a native of Virginia, 



and his mother was born in Kentucky. 
Reared in Missouri, Mr. Nelson was fitted 
for college at Kemper School, of Boonville, 
and then matriculated at the State Univer- 
sity, at Columbia, Mo. Later he went to 
Yale College where he completed a classical 
course of study and graduated with the 
degree of bachelor of arts. Returning then 
to his native state, he was given a position 
in the Central National Bank, of Boonville, 
in the fall of 1867, w^hich he retained for 
three years, being promoted to the cashier- 
ship of the bank under the presidency of the 
late J. L. Stephens. In 1870 he went to 
Fort Scott, Kans., and established there the 
First National Bank of that city, with which 
he was identified as cashier and chief execu- 
tive officer until 1877, at which time he en- 
tered a broader field of financial operations, 
removing at that time to St. Louis, and be- 
coming cashier of the Valley National Bank, 
of this city. Some time later he established 
the firm of Nelson & Noel, private bankers 
and brokers, from which he retired, in 1888, 
to seek rest and travel, to which he devoted 
two years. In 1891 he accepted the presi- 
dency of the St. Louis National Bank, in- 
creasing its capital stock from $500,000 to 
$1,000,000, and remained at the head of that 
institution until 1896, when he resigned the 
presidency and retired from active participa- 
tion in the conduct of the bank, although he 
is still officially connected with it as vice- 
president and director, and is one of its 
largest shareholders. During the period of 
more than twenty years that Mr. Nelson has 
been identified with banking interests, he has 
occupied an enviable position among the men 
who have made St. Louis banking houses 
famous throughout the country for their 
solidity and sound financiering. Since his 
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lie lias devoted his time mainly to private 
business interests. In politics he is a Demo- 
crat, and has contributed largely to promote 
the success of that organization and its can- 
didates. He affiliates with the Presbyterian 
Church, and was president of the board of 
ttrustees of the West Presbyterian Church 
corporation, of St. Louis. He is a member 
of the Masonic order, of the Knights Tem- 
plar rank. He married. October i, 1894, 
Miss Louise Eleanor Bradford. Business 
address, 319 North Fourth street; residence 
address, Normanda, St. Louis, Missouri. 



OTTO FERDINAND MEISTER. 

Otto Ferdinand Meister, a prominent 
manufacturer and president of the St. 
Louis and Marissa Grain and Elevator 
Company, was born July 9, 1853, in St. 
Louis, Mo., Son of Frederick William and 
Frederica (Thilenius) Meister. He was 
educated in the schools of this city and at 
Washington University, where he pursued 
an academic course, and later took a special 
course in mineralogy and chemistry. After 
completing his education, he was sent to Col- 
orado by the St. Louis Smelting & Refining 
Company, in 1878, and for six months there- 
after was employed as assayer at the works 
operated by that corporation. At a later date 
he was general manager of a silver mining 
company in Colorado for a year, and through 
this association gained a practical, as well 
as a theoretical, knowledge of the business of 
mining, smelting and refining ores. In 1882 
he became the lessee of the Lunaghi Zinc 
Works, located at Collinsville, 111. Four 
years later he organized a corporation, in 
which he became largely interested as a 



stockholder, and with which he has since been 
officially identified as director, secretary and 
treasurer, and established the Collinsville 
Zinc Works. This manufactory is an im- 
portant institution of its kind, controlled by 
St. Louis capital and employing regularly 
from 150 to 175 men. Equipped with two 
mechanical roasting furnaces and ten zinc 
smelting furnaces, and with all the modern 
appliances for the reduction of zinc ore, this 
plant has a daily smelting capacity of twenty- 
five tons, and the inexhaustible supply of coal 
adjacent to the works makes the location 
peculiarly favorable for extensive and profit- 
able operations in this field of enterprise. The 
industry is largely indebted to Mr. Meister 
for its existence and the success which has 
attended its operations, and he is known to 
the business circles of St. Louis as a man of 
splendid business capacity and superior 
attainments as a metallurgist and mineralo- 
gist. November 16, 1898, he was elected a 
director of the German Savings Institution, 
succeeding his father as a member of the 
directorate of that admirably managed bank- 
ing house. 

Mr. Meister married, in 1890, Miss 
Frieda Katharine Schlossstein, daughter of 
the late George Schlossstein, of St. Louis, 
and has two children, Walter and Arthur 
Meister. Residence address, 2935 Russell 
avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM MEDART. 

William Medart, member of the Medart 
Patent Pulley Company, was born May 15, 
1845, in Belleville, Illinois, son of Philip 
Medart, of German nativity. In the summer 
of 1854, when he was but nine years of age. 



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and had barely obtained the rudiments of an 
education, he came to St. Louis, and began 
working for J. Syme, a lace merchant, whose 
establishment was a branch of a Xew Or- 
leans house. While in the employ of this 
merchant he labored diligently to improve his 
education as much as possible through read- 
ing, study and attendance at night schools. 
When Mr. Syme finally concluded to close 
out his business in St. Louis, and send his 
unsold stock back to New Orleans, William 
Medart was thrown out of employment, and 
was out of work for a period of twelve days, 
the only time in his life which he now remem- 
bers, since he became old enough to work, 
that he had not some regular employment. 
At the end of these twelve days he found 
employment in the wholesale house of C. H. 
Olcott & Co., then doing a large dry goods 
business in St. Louis. After remaining a 
short time with this firm he became connected 
with the wholesale dry goods house of Pome- 
roy & Benton, which was then the largest 
and most widely known establishment of its 
kind in the western country. For several 
years his connection with this firm was in the 
capacity of employe, but in time he became a 
partner of the firm which succeeded Pome- 
roy & Benton, and continued to be thus in- 
terested in merchandising until 1882. Li 
1879 ^^ had taken an interest with his 
brother, Philip Medart, in the manufacture 
of a patent pulley, of which the last named 
was inventor, and which is now famous 
throughout the United States. This business 
developed rapidly, and as a consequence Wil- 
liam Medart severed his connection with the 
dry goods trade in 1882, and turned his 
attention to his manufacturing interests. The 
enterprise which he and his brother estab- 
lished — a small affair to begin with, has since 
become one of great consequence and magni- 



tude, and Mr. Medart is thus identified with 
one of the important industries of the city. 
Since 1882 he has devoted himself exclu- 
sively to this business, having charge of its 
financial department and evidencing his 
broad capacity in the success with which he 
has conducted its affairs. Notwithstanding 
the fact that he had limited educational ad- 
vantages in early life, he has studied to good 
purpose as boy and man, has traveled exten- 
sively and observed closely, and is known 
among his friends and associates as a man of 
cultivated tastes and broad general informa- 
tion. He has made several trips to Europe, 
and has made many friends abroad. Resi- 
dence address, 1827 Compton avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS EDWARD MULVIHILL. 

Thomas Edward Mulvihill, lawyer and 
prosecuting attorney, was born in Clair 
county. Mo., May 25, 1862, son of Lawrence 
and Mattie (Finncan) Mulvihill. His par- 
ents came to New York, in 1865, and soon 
Mrs. Mulvihill died. Then the father, with 
his three sons, came to Farina, Fayette coun- 
ty, 111. The subject of this sketch was cared 
for and reared by his father's sister and her 
husband, Bridget and John Collins, his father 
dying in 1872. He began his education by 
attending the public school at Farina, until 
he was eighteen years of age, when he went 
to Peotone, Will county. 111., where he at- 
tended the public school. In 1882, through 
the encouragement of a brother, he came to- 
St. Louis and entered the St. Louis Law 
School, from which he graduated in 1885. 
and in June of the same year was admitted 
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at St. Louis. He continued to practice here 
and May 20, 189 1, was appointed assistant 
city attorney by Mayor Edward A. Noonan. 
November 6, 1894, was elected prosecuting 
attorney of the St. Louis Court of Criminal 
Corrections, an office which he still holds. 
He is a Democrat and has taken an active 
part in politics, national, state and local, for 
the past twelve years. Is a member of the 
Legion of Honor, of the ex-Confederate His- 
torical Society, and of the St. Louis Bar 
Association. In 1887 he formed a partner- 
ship with E. C. Fodge, which still continues. 
September 28, 1892, Mr. Mulvihill was 
married to Katie M. Daily, daughter of 
Owen and Mary Daily, old and respected 
residents of St. Louis. They have two chil- 
dren, Margaret Mary and Thomas Lawrence 
Mulvihill. Business address, City Hall 
building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



Sac City, Iowa, to Miss Carrie Comstock. 
One child, Frank L. Woodward. Business 
address, Willis Wood Theatre ; residence ad- 
dress, 3324 Troost avenue, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



ORVILLE DELBERT WOODWARD. 

Orville Delbert Woodward. Theatrical 
manager. Born May 19, 1866, in Plymouth, 
Ind. Son of James M. and Harriet (Mc- 
Clure) Woodward. Educated in the public 
schools, and Business College, Des Moines, 
Iowa. 

Mr. Woodward located in Kansas City, 
Mo., from Nebraska, October 18. 1898, and 
has been connected and identified with sev- 
eral important business enterprises. He is 
president of the Woodward & Burgess 
Amusement Company, Hoyt State Bank, 
Hoyt, Kans., and director in the Traders' 
Bank, Kansas City, Kans., and a stockholder 
in the Lenapah State Bank, Indian Terri- 
tory. In politics he is a Republican. He was 
married on the 25th of February, 1885, at 



CLARENCE M. NICHOLSON. 

Clarence M. Nicholson, physician, was 
born January 15, 1868, in Kansas City, Mo., 
son of Colonel E. P. and Elizabeth (Savage) 
Nicholson. His paternal grandfather was 
Isaac P. Nicholson, born in 1789, who, after 
serving on the bench as circuit judge in Mis- 
sissippi, was elevated to the Supreme bench 
of that state, and acquired enviable distinc- 
tion as a jurist. Dr. Nicholson obtained his 
academic education in the public schools of 
Kansas City and St. Louis, and began the 
study of medicine in the last named city. He 
matriculated in the Missouri Medical Col- 
lege, where he graduated in the class of 1891, 
and immediately afterward became a teacher 
in that institution. While he has engaged 
in general practice, his strong predilection has 
been toward surgery, and his practical expe- 
rience has been supplemented, in this field 
of medical science, by post-graduate courses 
of study in New York and Philadelphia, and 
at the clinics of London, Paris, Vienna and 
Berlin. In 1893 he was appointed surgeon 
to St. John's Hospital, and in 1895 surgeon 
to the Emergency Hospital, and he has occu- 
pied the chair of general descriptive anatomy 
and clinical surgery at the Beaumont Hos- 
pital Medical College. He was secretary also 
of the state anatomical board, and a member 
of various medical societies. Outside of pro- 
fessional circles he is known as a genial and 
accomplished gentleman, and one who has 
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organizations. He is a member of the Ala- 
sonic order, and of the order of Knights of 
Pythias, and is chancellor commander of Red 
Cross Lodge of the last named order, in St. 
Louis. Business address, 4500 Olive street ; 
residence address, 5471 Delmar boulevard, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



ALFRED J. MILLER. 

Alfred J. Miller, purchasing agent of the 
M. K. & T. railway system, was born in 
Bellefonte, Pa., July 4, 1865, son of Lewis 
W. and Ann Eliza (Sweeney) Miller. He 
entered the railroad business November i, 
1888, and is at the present time engaged as 
purchasing agent. Located in Sedalia, Mo., 
in 1892, from Kansas. Began his business 
career as an office boy, and has steadily 
climbed up. He is a member of the Mer- 
cantile Club, Athletic Club, Glen Echo 
Country Club, ^Manufacturers' Association, 
Knight Templar, and is a Protestant in re- 
ligious belief. 

Mr. Miller was married May 20, 1889, 
to Miss Georgia Deol, at Pasadena, Cal. 
Children born : Maria, George Alfred and 
Helen Miller. Business address, Wain- 
wright building; residence address, 5147 
Morgan street. 



GUSTAVE WILLL\M XIEAL\XN. 

Gustave William Niemann, president of 
the Title Guarantee Trust Company, one 
of the most prominent financiers and opera- 
tors in real estate in St. Louis, was born in 
St. Louis July 27, 1857, son of William and 



Minna (Trauernicht) Niemann. His father 
was engaged for many years in merchandis- 
ing in St. Louis, and his maternal grand- 
father. Dr. Gustave W. Trauernicht, was a 
famous dentist in that city , who died in 
Thuringen some years since. The elder 
Niemann was a native of Osnabrueck, Ger- 
many, born in that city in 1827. He came to 
this country in 1847, and during the earlier 
years of his residence in St. Louis was en- 
gaged in the dry goods trade. His son, Gus- 
tave W., grew up under favorable auspices, 
attending, as a boy, the public schools and 
Wertz's German private institute. He com- 
pleted his academic studies at the Christian 
Brothers' College, and then fitted himself 
for the business in which he has since been 
engaged by a course of study at the St. Louis 
Law School, which familiarized him with the 
underlying principles of law, and also with 
various legal forms and methods of proced- 
ure, which he has had occasion to make use 
of in the conduct of his business. Soon after 
leaving the law school he entered the office 
of August Gehner, one of the most successful 
business men of St. Louis, who is recognized 
also as an exceptionally astute financier, and 
under his tutorage learned all the details of 
the real estate and brokerage business. He 
was promoted from one position of trust and 
responsibility to another in Mr. Gehner's 
office until, in 1886, he became a partner in 
the business, and for a dozen years he has 
been conspicuous as a representative of large 
business interests, and a remarkably saga- 
cious and successful man of afifairs. He has 
become a recognized authority on matters 
pertaining to the examination of land titles, 
and devotes a large share of his time to this 
branch of the business in which he is en- 
gaged. He is officially connected with the 
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that institution, is a member of the leading 
social clubs of the city, and is widely known 
in fraternal circles as a Mason of high rank. 
Residence address, 4472 Lindell boulevard, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



HARRY N. MARX. 

Harry N. Marx. President of the Marx 
& Haas Clothing Company. Born June i, 
1853, in Richmond, Mo. Son of Solomon 
and Clara (Schweich) Marx. He acquired 
his education in the public schools of St. 
Louis, Mo. Mr. Marx for many years has 
been connected with the wholesale clothing 
business. He began the business first as a 
clerk, then salesman, then as manufacturer 
and general manager. The original firm 
with which he was first employed, Marx & 
Schoen, was established in 1855, afterwards 
changed in style to Marx & Haas, 1865. In 
1892 he organized the Mar.x & Haas Cloth- 
ing Company, composed of H. N. Marx, 
president ; E. J. Marx, first vice-president ; 
B. F. Marx, second vice-president, and 
Gus Hirchland, secretary, wholesale man- 
ufacturers of clothing and pants. 

Mr. Marx was married, September 26, 
1904, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Blanche 
Moss. Business address. Thirteenth and 
Washington avenue; residence address, 5077 
Westminster Place. 



THOMAS GARRISON MORFIT. 

Thomas Garrison Morfit, president of the 
St. Louis Shoe Company, was born June 12, 
1868, in Baltimore, Md, son of Mason and 



Elizabeth (Garrison) Morfit. Educated in 
the public schools and at the Baltimore City 
College. He is a member of the firms, St. 
Louis Shoe Company and the Frisco Build- 
ing Company, president of the former and 
director of the latter. The St. Louis Shoe 
Company is composed of T. G. Morfit, presi- 
dent; H. M. Stephens, vice-president; D. W. 
Pomeroy, secretary; F. B. Rice, treasurer; 
W. B. Rice, J. A. Dasha, H. L. Rice and J. 
C. Morfit, directors, and was established in 
June, 1898. 

In early life he chose mercantile pur- 
suits for his future career. He is a member 
of the University Club, Missouri Athletic 
Club and Normandy Park Club. In relig- 
ious belief he is a Baptist, and he affiliates 
with the Democratic party. Business ad- 
dress, 1009, loii and 1012 Washington ave- 
nue; residence address, 5367 Cabanne ave- 
nue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS H. McKITTRICK. 

Thomas H. McKittrick. Merchant. Born 
in St. Louis, Mo., April 17, 1864, Son of 
Hugh and Mary Webber (Cutter) McKit- 
trick. He was reared in St. Louis, and edu- 
cated in local schools and at Washington 
University, from which institution he was 
graduated in 1883. His connection with the 
Hargadine-McKittrick Dry Goods enterprise 
dates from about six months after he left 
college. He was admitted to a partnership 
in the concern in 1886, and since 1895 has 
been president of the company. Since he 
accepted the responsibilities of this position 
nine years ago, the growth of the house in all 
its departments has been rapid and steady, its 
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fluence of this progressive merchant and man 
of affairs is perceptible in many commercial 
and financial interests of St. Louis. He is 
officially connected with numerous enter- 
prises of note, including the National Bank 
of Commerce, the St. Louis Union Trust 
Company, the American Central Insurance 
Company, the Guaranty Trust Company and 
the Missouri Safe Deposit Company, in all of 
which corporations he is a director. Is a 
director of the Louisiana Purchase Exposi- 
tion Company, vice-chairman of the commit- 
tee on ways and means and a member of the 
committee on fine arts and entertainment, 
and is a member of the Noonday, St. Louis, 
Commercial, County and University clubs. 
Mr. McKittrick married. May 9, 1888, 
Miss Hildegarde Sterling. They have two 
sons and a daughter. Business address, 911 
Washington avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM ALBERT SWASEY. 

William Albert Swasey, architect, was 
born October 11, 1863, in the city of Mel- 
bourne, Australia, son of John B. and Hettie 
f Jewett) Swasey, both of whom were na- 
tives of Newburyport, Mass. Although born 
on the island continent while his parents were 
temporarily sojourning in the largest of its 
cities, he comes of an old New England fam- 
ily, and his great-grandfather was a Revolu- 
tionary soldier. His education was obtained 
at the Boston Latin School, a military board- 
ing school of Paris, France, and the Boston 
Institute of Technologj', the last named be- 
ing the institution at which he completed his 
course of study and from which he was grad- 
uated in the class of 1882. Later he studied 
and practiced architecture under eminent 



architects of Chicago, New York and foreign 
cities, and in 1885 came to St. Louis and 
entered into co-partnership with Charles K. 
Ramsey, becoming junior member of the 
firm of Ramsey & Swasey. Two years later 
this partnership was dissolved, and since then 
Mr. Swasey has continued the practice of his 
profession alone, gaining a leading position 
among western architects as a result of his 
artistic accomplishments and his thorough 
knowledge of everything pertaining to the 
superintendence of building operations. 
While he has been the architect of many fine 
churches, apartment houses, hotels, and other 
public buildings, his cultivated tastes have 
found their best expression in club houses 
and private residences. The Fullerton build- 
ing, completed about the close of 1897, one 
of the most impressive office buildings in St. 
Louis, was designed by him and erected 
under his supervision ; and the Pastime Club, 
St. Louis Dairy Company building, and the 
Cumberland and Westminster Apartment 
houses are structures which have contributed 
not a little to his renown as an architect. The 
residences of Samuel Kennard, Byron Nu- 
gent, J. C. VanBlarcom, Judge Elmer B. 
Adams, Henry Siegrist. and others, which 
never fail to attract the attention of visitors 
to St. Louis, are evidences of his superior 
attainments as a designer of dwellings, ad- 
mirably adapted to their surroundings and 
replete in artistic beauty. He may be said to 
have introduced and popularized in St. Louis 
the colonial style of architecture, now largely 
in evidence in the fashionable "West End" 
and in other handsome residence portions of 
of the city. He is a member of the St. Louis, 
Noonday, and Country clubs, and the Society 
of the Sons of the Revolution, a member of 
the St. Louis Chapter of Architects, and a 
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tects. He is an Episcopal churcliman and a 
member of St. George's Church of that de- 
nomination. 

Mr. Swasey married, in 1890. Miss Irene 
McNeal, the accomplished daughter of Hon. 
Albert J. McNeal, of Memphis, Tenn., and a 
great-granddaughter of President James K. 
Polk. Their only child is a son, McNeal 
Swasey, born November 9, 1891. Business 
address, Mercantile Trust building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



HUGH McKITTRICK. 

Hugh McKittrick (deceased). Merchant. 
Born October 21, 1829, at Gil-na-Hirk, Ire- 
land. Son of Hugh and Martha (Kennedy) 
McKittrick. He attended private schools 
imtil he was fourteen years of age when he 
became midshipman in the British navy. 
Began his business career in the linen trade 
at seventeen and at nineteen came to the 
United States. In August, 1849. he accepted 
a position in St. Louis with the firm of Crow, 
IMcCreery & Barksdale. In 1856, on the re- 
tirement of Mr. Barksdale, became a member 
of the firm of Crow, McCreery & Company. 
Afterward he was a member of the firm of 
Hargadine, McKittrick & Co., and from 
1889 until his death in 1895, was president 
of this company, and in which office he was 
succeeded by his son, Thomas H. McKit- 
trick. He was long president of the board of 
trustees of the Church of the Messiah, was 
twenty years a director of the St. Louis Na- 
tional Bank, and helped to organize the 
Union Trust Company, and as long as he 
lived was a member of its executive commit- 
tee. In May, 1878, was appointed a member 
of the government commission created bv 



Secretary Sherman, of the United States 
treasury. In this commission, consisting of 
five merchants, one each from Chicago, Cin- 
cinnati, Baltimore, New York and St. Louis, 
Mr. McKittrick represented the merchants of 
St. Louis and the southwest. He was for 
years a director and stockholder in several 
New York corporations. His career was 
successful and creditable and he ranks as one 
of the great merchants of his time. He mar- 
ried, in 1859, Miss Mary Webber Cutter. To 
them have been born nine children. Resi- 
dence address, 911 Washington avenvte, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



GERRIT H. TEN HROEK. 

Gerrit H. Ten Broek, lawyer, and vice- 
consul of the Netherlands, and editor, was 
born March 30, 1859, in St. Louis. His par- 
ents were Henry and Gepke (Diekenga) Ten 
Broek, and he comes of Dutch ancestry. 
After completing his academic education at 
the St. Louis High School he entered the St. 
Louis Law School and finished his law 
course there. He was admitted to the bar 
and at once began the practice of his profes- 
sion in St. Louis. Turning his attention to 
mercantile law, he established the Ten Broek 
agency, through which he became ac- 
quainted, either personally or by correspond- 
ence, with several thousand attorneys scat- 
tered throughout the United States and other 
countries. In 1886 he conceived the idea of 
uniting these correspondents into a regular 
organization, and in pursuance of this idea 
he formed the "Associated Law Offices." 
This is an organization which aims to secure 
by co-operation, interchange of information 
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contracted correspondents, tlie highest effi- 
ciency in their collection departments. Mr. 
Ten Broek has had the satisfaction of seeing- 
this organization develop into one of the 
most noted and most thoroughly efficient col- 
lecting agencies of the country. He estab- 
lished, in 1885, "The Mercantile Adjuster," 
of which he is still the editor, and in which 
he owns a controlling interest. This monthly 
legal publication is issued from New York, 
contains information of especial interest and 
value to credit men, collection managers and 
commercial lawyers, and now has a circula- 
tion of 10,000 copies, which extends into 
every country in the world having commer- 
cial relations with the United States. Its 
offices in New York are in the Empire build- 
ing, where Mr. Ten Broek spends a portion 
of his time, although his residence and prin- 
cipal office has been in St. Louis. 

He is a member and vestryman of Grace 
Episcopal Church, and is secretary of the St. 
Louis Bethel Association, secretary of the 
St. Louis Hospital Association, and secre- 
tary of the Hospital Saturday and Sunday 
Association. He married, in 1893, Mrs. 
Frances Lorraine Colby, of St. Louis. Resi- 
dence address, 1103 Jackson Place, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



MAXIAHLLXN C. STARKLOFF. 

Maximilian C. Starkloff. Physician. 
Was born December 30, 1859, in Quincy, 
Illinois, son of Dr. H. M. Starkloff, a na- 
tive of Germany. The son was educated in 
the public schools of St. Louis, and at the 
military academy of Pennsylvania, and later 
took a commercial course at Bryant & Strat- 
ton's College of this city. For four years 



thereafter he read medicine under the pre- 
ceptorship of the noted physician and sur- 
geon. Dr. John T. Hodgen, attending the 
courses of lectures also at St. Louis Medi- 
cal College. He received his doctor's de- 
gree from that institution at the close of the 
college year 1882, and immediately after- 
ward began the practice of his profession in 
Carondelet. He has since continued his 
practice in this city, and at the same time 
has held various important municipal and 
other offices. During the administration of 
President Harrison, he served as president 
of the board of United States pension ex- 
aminers for St. Louis. In 1895 he was ap- 
pointed health commissioner of St. Louis, 
by Mayor Walbridge, and still fills that po- 
sition, in which he has done much to im- 
prove the public health and better sanitary 
conditions in the city. He is also local sur- 
geon for the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com- 
pany, and consulting surgeon of the West- 
em Steel Company, and of the Vulcan Iron 
works. During a period of ten years' serv- 
ice as surgeon of these corporations, he has 
treated fifteen thousand persons, suffering 
from injuries for which the corporations felt 
themselves in some degree responsible, an 
average of fifteen hundred patients a year. 
As a physician and surgeon Dr. Starkloff 
stands high among his contemporaries ; as a 
public official he has been true to every 
trust, and as a man he has drawn about him 
a host of warm friends. An enthusiastic 
patron of field sports, he is known locally 
as one of the best shots in St. Louis and as 
a participant in numerous shooting tourna- 
ments. Politically he is identified with the 
Republican party, and he has taken an ac- 
tive part in advancing its interest, and is one 
of the influential party managers, of St. 
Louis. He married, in 1879, at Belleville, 



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Illinois, Miss Mary E. Flynn, a daughter of 
William Flynn, of Mexico, Mo., well known 
throughout the west, as a railroad builder 
and contractor. Office address 7619 Broad- 
way, St. Louis, Mo. 



WILLIAM S. McCHESSNEY, Jr. 

William S. McChessney, Jr. President 
of the Terminal Railway Association of St. 
Louis, Mo. When he accepted that position 
he took the great task of providing ade- 
quate terminal facilities for the handling of 
the thousands of trains that would bring 
World's Fair visitors to St. Louis and take 
them home again in 1904. The aim of the 
association was to build up in St. Louis the 
most complete system of railroad terminals 
in the world. This is a part of the work 
which Mr. McChessney undertook. He 
was vice-president and general manager of 
the association for three years before be- 
coming the president. Mr. McChessney 
was born at Cynthiana, Ky., August 5, 
1855, son of William S. and Martha 
(Curry) McChessney. His parents are liv- 
ing at Lexington, Ky., where they located 
when this subject was a mere child. Mr. 
McChessney was educated in Pennsylvania 
University, and did his first railroad work in 
1878 just after completing his studies in 
that institution as passenger agent at Lex- 
ington. Ky., for the Ohio & Mississippi 
Railroad Company. Later he was appointed 
general traveling agent for the Louisville, 
Cincinnati and Lexington Railway Com- 
pany, and after this was bought by the 
Louisville-Nashville Company, was until 
December, 1895, general agent at Lexington 
for the last mentioned line. He went to St. 



Louis in 1895, as superintendent for the 
Nashville road, and held that position until 
1900. Was elected vice-president and gen- 
eral manager for the Terminal Railway As- 
sociation. His election to the presidency of 
that road took place March 24, 1903. He 
is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Templar 
and a member of the Noonday, St. Louis, 
Mercantile, Academy and Country Clubs. 
December 22, 1880, Mr. McChessney mar- 
ried Miss Sallie Caldwell Warfield, of Lex- 
ington, Ky. They have a son Samuel and a 
daughter, Martha B. McChessney. Busi- 
ness address, 107 Union Station, St. Louis, 
Mo. 



GEORGE JUDD TANSEY. 

George Judd Tansey. President of the 
St. Louis Transfer Co. Born March 25, 
1865, in Alton, Illinois, son of Robert T. 
and Maria (Mangum) Tansey. The elder 
Tansey removed, with his family, to St. 
Louis in 1869, and the son was fitted for 
college in the Stoddard Grammar School 
and at the St. Louis high school, graduat- 
ing from the last named institution in 1884. 
In the fall of the same year he entered Cor- 
nell University, of Ithaca, New York, and 
was graduated from that university with 
the degree of bachelor of letters in the class 
of 1888. Returning then to St. Louis, he 
took a course at the St. Louis Law School, 
and was admitted to the bar in June of 1889. 
During the following year he was assistant 
secretary of the St. Louis Transfer Com- 
pany. In March of 1890 he became junior 
member of the firm of Laughlin, Kern & 
Tansey, his partners being Judge Henry D. 
Laughlin and R. H. Kern. Mr. Kern re- 
tired from the firm some time later, and 



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Randolph H. Laughlin, Judge Laughlin's 
son, being admitted to the partnership, the 
firm was Laughhn, Tansey & Laughhn until 
the spring of 1899, when this association 
was dissolved. At the death of his father 
Mr. Tansey succeeded the elder Tansey as 
president of the St. Louis Transfer Com- 
pany, becoming also general manager of the 
affairs of that corporation. While prac- 
ticing his profession successfully, Mr. Tan- 
sey has also taken an active part in politics, 
not as a candidate, but as an orator, writer 
and party leader. In the presidential contest 
of 1896 he was one of the active managers 
of the National Democratic party move- 
ment, and took a prominent part in the con- 
duct of the campaign in Missouri. He is a 
member of the Delta Epsilon fraternity, of 
the Mercantile, Cornell, and Office Men's 
Clubs, and of the Knights of St. Patrick, 
and is one of the wittiest and most versatile 
after-dinner speakers in St. Louis. Resi- 
dence address, 226 N. Newstead avenue, St. 
Louis, Mo. 



WILLIAM D. ORTHWEIN. 

William D. Orthwein, grain merchant. 
Born February 9, 1841, in Wuerttemberg, 
Germany. He came to this country in 1855, 
having laid the foundation of a thorough 
education in Germany, and after remaining 
here a short time, returned to his native 
land to complete the course of study upon 
which he had previously entered. After de- 
voting five years more to his educational 
equipment for the business of life, he re- 
turned to the United States in i860. For 
eighteen months thereafter he was employed 
in a merchandising establishment at Lin- 
coln, 111., and then came to St. Louis, in 



1862 and accepted a position as bookkeeper 
for the grain commission firm of Haenschen 
& Orthwein, of which his brother, Charles 
F. Orthwein. was junior member. He was 
closely identified with the firm until 1870. 
when his brother became head of the firm of 
Orthwein & Mersmann, which he continued 
to be connected with until 1879. During 
this time enterprises set on foot by this 
house did much toward revolutionizing the 
grain trade of the west and southwest. 
They made the first all-water shipments of 
bulk grain from St. Louis and demon- 
strated conclusively that export grain ship- 
ments could be made from this city by way 
of New Orleans. In 1879 he became a 
member of the firm of Orthwein Bros., 
which existed successfully until 1893; after 
the severance of the partnership relations be- 
tween the brothers, William D. Orthwein 
formed the William D. Orthwein Grain 
Company, with his sons, Frederick C. and 
W'alter E., as his associates. Since then he 
has continued to do a large grain business 
under this name, at the same time, has been 
prominently identified with many other en- 
terprises. President of the above named 
grain company, president of the St. Louis 
Victoria Flour Mills Company, vice-presi- 
dent of the Manufacturers" Railway Com- 
pany, a director of the Mississippi Valley 
Trust Company, director of the Kinloch 
Telephone Company and director of the 
L'nion Casualty Company. When a young 
man. he saw service in the Union Army dur- 
ing the Civil war, having been on duty in 
tlie quartermaster's department of the First 
Division of the Fifteenth Army Corps from 
July. 1863. until May. 1864, when ill-health 
compelled him to leave the army. He has 
served as a director of the Merchants' Ex- 
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board of managers of the Mullanphy Emi- 
grant Relief Fund. In club circles he is 
known as a member of the Union, St. Louis, 
and Jockey Clubs. June 9, 1870, he mar- 
ried Miss Emily H. Thuemler. Their chil- 
dren are Fred C, Walter E., Edgar L., 
William R., Percy J., Alice S., Nellie F. 
and Mildred Orthwein. Business address, 
303 Chamber of Commerce Building, St. 
Louis, Mo. 



HENRY CLAY GRENNER. 

Henry Clay Grenner, Collector of In- 
ternal Revalue for the First District of 
Missouri, born in Philadelphia, Pa., 1852, 
son of John L. and Mary Grenner. After 
completing his education at New York Col- 
lege, of New York City, from which insti- 
tution he was a graduate, he engaged in the 
business of printing and publishing in New 
York, when he was nineteen years of age. 
In 1877 he left New York for the oil re- 
gions of Pennsylvania, and soon afterward 
became part owner of the Titusville, Pa., 
Daily and Weekly Herald. During the year 
1880 Mr. Grenner entered the oil business 
and developed many new oil fields. After 
opening a number of valuable wells, he en- 
gaged also, in 1882, in the business of re- 
fining petroleum. He mastered all the de- 
tails of producing and refining oils and 
having a thorough understanding of the 
business, he became an important factor in 
the early fight made against the Standard 
Oil Company, in Pennsylvania. Was one 
of the prime movers in organizing a com- 
pany which built an independent pipe line 
from the Pennsylvania oil regions, and he 
also built the international oil works at Ti- 
tusville, and was president of the company 



which operated that plant. In 1886 Mr. 
Grenner came to St. Louis for the purpose 
of developing the independent oil trade 
throughout the west and southwest and in 
pursuance of the plan which he had formu- 
lated, he built the International Oil Works 
in this city. Became president of the cor- 
poration owning this plant, and which 
has been wonderfully successful, and is to- 
day a potent factor in controlling the oil 
trade of the west. He has always been a 
zealous Republican and has at different 
times contributed much to his party. Presi- 
dent McKinley appointed him United States 
collector of Internal revenue for the First 
District of Missouri, in which he entered 
upon February, 1898. Mr. Grenner is one 
of the most prominent members of the Ma- 
sonic order in Missouri, and he is also a 
member of the order of Odd Fellows and 
the order of Knights of Pythias. He mar- 
rined in 1875, Miss Gussie L. Seabury, of 
New York City. Business address 418 
South Threasa avenue. 



WILLIAM H. HAHN. 

William H. Hahn. Ex-recorder of 
deeds for St. Louis. Born February 13, 
1864, in St. Louis, son of William Hahn. 
Mr. Hahn was educated in the public 
schools of St. Louis, at the German Insti- 
tute and at Bryant and Stratton's Business 
College. When fifteen years of age he be- 
gan his business career as an employe of the 
hardware firm of Bailey & Richardson. In 
1 89 1 he engaged in the hardware business 
Dn his own account at 1530 Olive street and 
has since been prominently identified with 
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firm of William H. Haiiii & Company. He 
is Republican in politics and takes an active 
interest in his party. He was central cnni- 
mitteeman of the Eighteenth ward, the ban- 
ner Republican ward of the city ; secretary 
of the Republican central city committee 
and treasurer of the Eleventh Congressional 
League of Rei)ublican League Clubs. In 
1897 he was appointed a member of the 
Public Library Board of St. Louis by 
Mayor Ziegenheim, but in 1899 he re- 
signed this, to accept the office of 
recorder of deeds. He has also served as 
State secretary of the Rqiublican League 
Clubs. His religious afifiliations are with 
the Evangelical Church, and he is an active 
member of the Masonic (M-der. He is past 
master of Keystone Lodge No. 243 of that 
order, was elected its treasurer in 1897, 
serving to date; also a Knight Templar and 
a member of the Mystic Shrine. Was mar- 
ried April 30, 1885, to Miss Rose Rembor 
of St. Louis. Business address, 1530 Olive, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM ALBERT STICKNEY. 

William Albert Stickney. Merchant. 
President William A. Stickney Cigar Co. 
Was born in the town of Townsend, Mass., 
in 1844, son of Dr. Augustus G. and Louise 
(Wilson) Stickney. He was reared and ed- 
ucated in the neighlxirhood of his birthplace, 
and left there in 1862, when he was eigh- 
teen years of age, to go to Boston, then, as 
now, the mecca of ambitious New England 
youth, where he proposed to fit himself for 
the business of merchandising. Connecting 
himself with one of the stores of Boston, 
he was employed there as a clerk for two 



years, when he enlisted in the Sixth Vol- 
unteer Regiment of Massachusetts, at the 
last call made. After his term of service 
expired he went to New York City, where 
he became identified with the trade in which 
he has since been so signally successful. He 
embarked there in the cigar business, made 
a careful study of all its branches and de- 
tails, familiarized himself with the trade 
throughout the country, and in 1872 deter- 
mined to come west, and establish a whole- 
sale cigar house in the Mississippi Valley. 
Selecting St. Louis as the most available 
situation from which to control the trade of 
a large territory, he established here the 
W'illiam A. Stickney Cigar Company, or, 
more properly speaking, the business which 
has since been incorporated under that 
name. His capital was not large to begin 
with, but he had a thorough knowledge of 
the tobacco trade in general, and especially 
of that branch of it which includes the im- 
portation, manufacture and sale of cigars, 
and this knowledge enabled him to lay a 
broad foundation for future business. He 
was quick to note the demands of trade in 
the Mississippi Valley, and equally prompt 
in meeting such demands and, as a result, 
soon ])<)pularize(l himself and his house with 
the retail trade. With the vigor and energy 
characteristic of men trained to commercial 
pursuits in New England, he extended his 
business in various directions, winning pa- 
tronage by sheer force of enterprise, tact 
and courtesy, and retaining it through fair 
dealing and the recognized high character 
of the goods which he sent into market. As 
the business grew, he extended it beyond 
what is considered the territory tributary to 
St. Louis in other branches of commerce, 
and for some years his goods have been 
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The house which lie estabhshed a quarter 
of a century since lias now become the lar- 
gest joljbing house engaged in the cigar 
trade in the United States, and wherever it 
is known, its high character as a business 
estabhshment is recognized, and its admir- 
able management commendeil. A branch 
house is operated in Kansas City, and also 
in Denver, the latter house for territory in- 
cluded in the States of Colorado, Utah, Wy- 
oming and Montana. The trade controlled 
directly by the St. Louis house, and its 
branches extends throughout all the south- 
ern and Gulf States, westward to the Pacific 
Coast and northward to the Dominion of 
Canada. Many of its brands of cigars, like 
the "Chancellor," "Security," "Pr^fer- 
encia" and others, have become known in 
every part of the country, where good cigars 
are consumed, and it is one of the largest 
importers of fine cigars in the United States. 
A genial gentleman, as well as a successful 
business man, Mr. Stickney is exceedingly 
popular in social as well as in business cir- 
cles in St. Louis, is a member of the Mer- 
cantile, University and other clubs, and a 
member also of all the more prominent fra- 
ternal organizations of the city. He was 
married, in 1873. to Miss Millicent M. 
Taylor, of Covington, Ky., and has four 
children — Albert Taylor, Stuart Gros- 
venor, William Arthur and Mildred Le- 
moine Stickney. Residence address, 3515 
Morgan, St. Louis, Missouri. 



FRANK JAMES McCASLIN. 

Frank James McCaslin. Lawyer. Born 
October 12. 1879, in Jefferson county, In- 
diana. Son of C. H. and Henrietta (Brana- 
man) McCaslin. Educatefl in the public 



schools and the Missouri State University, 
1902, B. L. degree, Law School of Missouri 
State University. 1903. He located in Gen- 
try county. Mo., where he read law and en- 
gaged in general practice, continuing in the 
same up to the present time. In political 
matters he atifiliatcs with the Republican 
party. Business address, 622 Wainwright 
building; residence, 4265 Olive street. 



ELIAS MICHAEL. 



Elias Michael. Vice-president Rice-Stix 
Dry Goods Company. Born in Eschau. Ger- 
many. September 28, 1854. Son of Simon 
and Sarah (Ottenheimer) Michael. Among 
the many self-made business men of this de- 
cade, stands the name of Elias Michael. He 
began as errand boy and gradually worked 
bis way to stockkeeper, then buyer, manag- 
ing director and then vice-president of the 
wholesale house of Rice-Stix Dry Goods 
Company, established in 1861. Mr. Michael 
located in St. Louis from Memphis, Tenn., 
in 1879, since which time he has been active 
in many business enterprises. He is a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education of the city of 
St. Louis. President of the Premium 
Mfg. Co., organized in 1880; director in 
Commonwealth Trust Company, organized 
in 1900, and Independent Fire Underwrit- 
ers, organized 1903: vice-president of the 
Rice-Stix Dry Goods Company, entering 
this firm in 1884. Also ex-director of the 
Provident Association; executive commit- 
tee of the Business Men's League. Member 
of the Mercantile, Noonday, Columbian, 
University and Contemporary clubs, Jew- 
ish Charities and Educational Association, 
Hospital, and American Geographical So- 



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cieties. Is independent in politics, and Jew- 
ish in religious belief. Was married June 
17, 1886, in Cincinnati, O., to Richael Stix. 
No children. Business address, 1000 Wash- 
ington avenue; residence, 4383 Westmin- 
ster place. 



JOHN P. MARSHALL. 

John P. Marshall. Manufacturer. Born 
November 27, 1850, in Aberdeen, Scotland. 
Son of Alexander and Jessie (Gellon) Mar- 
shall. Obtained his early education in the 
home of his birth. Later he attended for a 
time a public school, and, while learning his 
trade, attended also a private evening 
school. In 1872 he came to the United 
States, and while working at his trade in 
Brooklyn, continued his course of study in 
the night schools of the city. After nine 
months he came to Port Washington, O., 
where he became chief engineer of a blast 
furnace operated at that time there. He 
then went to Shawnee, O., where he was 
employed for several years, first as manager 
of a blast furnace and later as general man- 
ager of the Glasgow Iron Works. From 
there he went to Pittsburg, Pa., where he 
became a foreman in the famous Carnegie 
Iron Works, continuing in this a year and a 
half then came to St. Louis and entered tlic 
employ of the St. Louis Ore & Steel Com- 
pany, as master mechanic, continuing with 
this company in all nine years. In the mean- 
time, in company with his brother he had 
established the St. Louis Whiting Com- 
pany, to which, however, he did not give his 
personal attention until 1889. In this 
year he also organized the Arrow Rock 
Mining & Milling Company, of Quincy, 111., 
also organized the Imperial Paint and Oil 



Company of St. Louis. In August, 1898, 
was elected general superintendent of the 
South St. Louis Iron Works of McNair & 
DeCamp. In 1895 was elected to member- 
ship in the house of Delegates of St. Louis. 
Later was elected speaker pro tem. of the 
House. Is an earnest member of the Re- 
publican party in politics. Is a member of 
the Presbyterian Church. In 1873 he be- 
came a member of the Masonic order at 
New Straitsville, O. Is a member of Tem- 
plar Royal Arch Chapter; of St. Louis 
Commandery, No. i, Knights Templar, and 
of the Legion of Honor. Mr. Marshall mar- 
ried, September 22, 1876, Miss Elizabeth 
Ann Dey, of Aberdeen, Scotland. The chil- 
dren are Jessie A., William D., Maggie D., 
and Lizzie A. Marshall. Business address, 
Water, southeast corner Krause, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



AUGUST F. DONK. 

August F. Donk (deceased). ]\Iine 
operator. Born in Creffeld, Germany, Feb- 
ruary 13, 1846. Son of Henry and Jose- 
phine (Hinzen) Donk. Coming with his 
parents to this country at an early age, he 
was reared in Peoria, 111., where he obtained 
a limited education in private schools. After 
quitting school he began serving an appren- 
ticeship in Peoria, but soon developed a fond- 
ness for the printing business, and devoted 
most of his leisure time to setting type in a 
newspaper office. When sixteen years old 
he went to Chicago and began work as a com- 
positor on one of the daily newspapers of that 
city, where he achieved marked success in 
the calling. The next year he took a posi- 
tion as bookkeeper with his uncle, Joseph 
M. B. Puetz, then engaged in business in 



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St. Louis, and soon became thoroughly con- 
versant with every department of the coal 
business, hence, was soon given practically 
entire charge of the affairs. In the mean- 
time he was making an effort to improve his 
educational attainments, and was a regular 
attendant at the city night school. In the 
year 1863 Mr. Donk organized the firm of 
A. F. Donk & Company, and engaged in the 
coal trade on his own account. Later his 
brother, Edmund C. Donk, was admitted to 
the firm, which then became Donk Bros. & 
Co. This firm in later years being succeeded 
by the Donk Bros.' Coal & Coke Company. 
His younger brother, who has succeeded him 
as president and manager of the coal com- 
pany, was trained to the business under his 
direction, and has always felt that he owed 
his success to his brother's kindly regard, 
counsels and^ advice. His death occurred 
June 28, 1894. He was a member of the 
Unitarian church, a Republican in his politi- 
cal affiliations, and a prominent member of 
the Masonic Order. 

In 1869 Mr. Donk married Miss Emile 
Martini, of St. Louis. The children born of 
this union were August H., Josephine, Olga, 
Edwin, Camille, Lydia and Arthur Donk. 



HENRY A. BAKER. 

Henry A. Baker. Lawyer. Born Aug. 
3, 1867, in Webster, N. Y. Son of Chas. 
and Mary Anne (Weidman) Baker. Ac- 
quired his education in the public schools of 
Webster and Geneseo, N. Y. He gradu- 
ated from Yale College, 1895, with degree 
of B. A., St. Louis Law School, 1897, with 
degree of LL. B. After graduating at the 
Law School for three years he taught at 

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Smith Academy of Washington University, 
St. Louis, Mo. He then began the practice 
of his profession and has successfully pur- 
sued the same up to the present time. Mr. 
Baker is a member of the Masonic order 
and the Methodist Episcopal Church. He 
affiliates with the Republican party. Busi- 
ness address 617-22 Roe building; resi- 
dence address, 2747 Russell avenue, St. 
Louis. 



WILLIAM HENRY SWIFT. 

William Henry Swift. President Fruin- 
Bambrick Construction Company, was born 
in Cayuga county. New York, March 27, 
1832, son of Joseph P. Swift, at one time 
high sheriff of Cayuga county, a well known 
Whig politician and the intimate friend of 
Millard Fillmore, Judge Alfred Conkling, 
and other old-time leaders of the Whig 
party. In the paternal line, Mr. Swift is 
descended from an English immigrant an- 
cestor who landed on Cape Cod in 1644 and 
became the progenitor of a family which has 
had many distinguished representatives in 
this country. His maternal ancestors, the 
Stoddards, were also among the earliest 
colonists of New England. He obtained in 
schools only a fair English education, but 
left the school-room to enter one of those 
institutions from which many of the most 
distinguished men of modern times have 
been graduated, the American newspaper 
office. As a printer's apprentice on the Au- 
burn Advertiser, published at Auburn, 
New York, he continued a system of edu- 
cation in which all theories are subordinated 
to practice, and then, as a craftsman, he 
gathered knowledge of the world, of busi- 
ness affairs, of politics and government in 



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various cities of the east and south. In 1850 
he came to St. Louis and began his career 
in this city as a journeyman printer. After 
a time he became foreman of the State Jour- 
nal composing room and was employed in 
that capacity until the pubhcation of the 
paper was discontinued. The practical 
printer had, by tliis time, become an accom- 
plished news-gatherer and soon after be- 
came city editor of the St. Louis Dispatch. 
In his capacity he had an opportunity to evi- 
dence his ability as a writer, his executive 
force and his familiarity with affairs in 
general, and as a result, he was promoted to 
the position of editor-in-chief, which he 
held until his inclination to identify himself 
more thoroughly with the business circles of 
St. Louis prompted him to accept the man- 
agement of the commercial and financial de- 
partments of the Missouri Republican, now 
the Republic. He himself took an active in- 
terest in political affairs, and as a result of 
his personal popularity and rescognized fit- 
ness for the position, he was elected clerk 
of the city council and held that office for 
two years. After retiring from the clerk- 
ship, he determined to abandon newspaper 
work and devote himself to business pur- 
suits, and in pursuance of this plan, asso- 
ciated himself with Jeremiah Fruin, then, as 
now, famous as a contractor for the building 
of public works of all kinds. His knowl- 
edge of public affairs, the diplomacy of 
which he was master, and the knowledge of 
men which he had acquired as a result of 
his years of newspaper work, had a vivify- 
ing effect upon the business which Mr. 
Fruin had established, and from that time 
forward its operations were vastly ex- 
tended. Some years later Messrs. Fruin, 
Bambrick and Swift formed a corporation 
to carry on their business, which took the 



name of the Fruin-Bambrick Construction 
Company. Of this corporation Mr. Swift 
was made president, and is still at the head 
of one of the most famous contracting com- 
panies in the United States, an institution 
which has operated in almost every state in 
the Union and which has constructed many 
of the most notable public works in the 
larger cities of the country. Residence ad- 
dress, 4335 West Pine boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



AUGUST FREDERICK POLLMAN 

August Frederick Pollman was born in 
St. Louis, July 4, 1862, son of Frederick and 
Mary Pollman, both natives of Germany, 
who came to St. Louis in 1847. After ob- 
taining a fairly good education in the public 
schools, he was apprenticed to the plasterer's 
trade with his brother, H. C. Pollman, and 
later worked for his brother as an employe 
in the coal trade. He was employed in vari- 
ous capacities thereafter during his youth and 
early manhood, always energetic, industrious 
and faithful in the discharge of his duties, 
and practicing all the time the frugality 
which is essential to the building up of for- 
tunes. When he had accumulated a little 
capital by this means, he became associated 
with the brother before mentioned, under the 
firm name of H. C. Pollman & Bro., and to- 
gether they took large contracts for street- 
sprinkling in St. Louis, which yielded them 
handsome returns. They were engaged also 
to a considerable extent in the coal trade, and 
in 1888 incorporated the H. C. Pollman & 
Bros.' Coal & Sprinkling Company, of which 
August F. Pollman was vice-president until 
1897. In the year last named he disposed of 
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in the same business under liis own name and 
on his own account. He has been a success- 
ful business man and a good citizen. His 
pohtical affiliations are with the Republican 
party, and he is a member of the Methodist 
Church, and of the Order of Odd Fellows. 
He married first, in 1884, Miss Anna Mar- 
garet Gerken, of Wright City, Mo. She 
died in 1880, leaving two children — Esther 
and August Frederick Pollman. In 1892 
Mr. Pollman married Miss Henrietta E. 
Gerken, a niece of his first w-ife, and two chil- 
dren have been born of this marriage, named, 
respectively, Henry Clay and Franklin 
Simon Pollman. Business address, 23 11 
Victor street; residence address, 2417 In- 
diana avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LOUIS H. SHAFFNER. 

Louis H. Shaffner, contractor, was born 
in St. Louis, Mo., April 10, 1842, son of 
Jacob and Eliza Shaffner. The elder Shaff- 
ner, a coppersmith by trade, and a native of 
Zanesville, Ohio, located in St. Louis at an 
early date. After acquiring a practical edu- 
cation in the public schools of St. Louis 
young Shaffner served an apprenticeship to 
the carpenter's trade with Samuel C. Mc- 
Cormack, a contractor and builder. In 1874 
he engaged in contracting and building on 
his own account, and is still engaged in that 
business. He frequently employs 100 car- 
penters at a time, besides other labor in the 
prosecution of his building contracts. Among 
the noted buildings erected by him is the 
Bowman Dairy Co. block. Sixteenth and 
Franklin avenue. He devotes most of his 
time to the construction of private dwellings, 
among which are many of the finest resi- 



dences in St. Louis. He is a good judge of 
real estate and other property, and has been 
frequently called upon by his neighbors to 
adjudicate values. He resides in his orig- 
inal homestead, which he has occupied con- 
tinuously for thirty-seven years. Mr. Shaff- 
ner, during the war, was engaged in re- 
building bridges of the North Missouri Rail- 
road destroyed by the armies. He is a Dem- 
ocrat, and has been a member of the Demo- 
cratic committee in his precinct, and a judge 
of election. He is a Methodist in religious 
belief and prominent as a member of the 
Masonic order, the Knights of Honor and 
the Legion of Honor. 

Mr. Shaffner has been twice married ; 
first, to Miss Cora Ulray, of St. Louis, in 
1876. Mrs. Cora Shaffner died in March, 
1887, leaving six children: Eva (deceased) ; 
Belle; Daisy, wife of Charles Spiers; Louis 
S., Arthur and Alfred Shaffner. His second 
marriage was with Miss Rose Paine, of St. 
Louis, in 1889. Two children have been 
born of this marriage — Rose Ann and Mary 
Shaffner. Residence address, 3923 Scullin 
avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WALTER D. DUNSHEE. 

Walter D. Dunshee, manager of the 
Chandler Pump Company, was born Sep- 
tember I, 1868, in Rockford, 111., son of 
Frank K. and Hannah (Hall) Dunshee, na- 
tives of New York. He acquired his edu- 
cation in the public schools of Illinois and 
Iowa. He was collector first in thel Des 
Moines Savings Bank, three years; in the 
employ of the Standard Oil Company, same 
place, as cashier, 1889-97. Came to Kansas 
City, 1 89 1, served in same position until 



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1897, when he was appointed manager of 
the Chandler Pump Company, Kansas City, 
Mo., and has remained in that position up 
to the present time. Mr. Dunshee has suc- 
cessfully promoted all of the business inter- 
ests that have been placed under his control ; 
judicious and painstaking in all of his busi- 
ness transactions, he is considered reliable 
and trustworthy on all occasions and capable 
of handling and operating a large volume of 
business, as is shown by the books of the 
company he now represents. In social, as 
well as business matters, he is a favorite. 
Member of the Kansas City Driving Club 
and the Elm Ridge Club. Married, June 12, 
1894, to Miss Mayme Schroder, Kansas 
City, Mo. Residence address, 3742 Bait 
avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



Mo., to Miss Annie A. Cone. Business ad- 
dress, 307 Wainwright building; residence 
address, 5239 Fairmount avenue. 



OLIVER JAMES BARWICK. 

Oliver Jame^ Barwick. Building con- 
tractor. Born March 21, 1873, in St. Louis, 
Mo. Son of James and Martha Jane (Ol- 
ney) Barwick. Educated in the public 
schools and Washington University, class of 
1 89 1. Mr. Barwick is a member of the 
Barwick Construction Company, established 
in 1898 and at that date was elected presi- 
dent. He began his career as an apprentice 
in pattern shops in Architectural Iron 
Foundry, then worked as draughtsman for 
several years and then took up general con- 
tracting, which business he is still engaged 
in. Mr. Barwick is a member of the En- 
gine(er's Club, Masonic order. Mercantile 
Club, Missouri Athletic Club, St. Louis Ar- 
chitectural Club. In religion he is a Meth- 
odist; in fKilitics he is a Republican. 
Married, January 10, 1900, in St. Louis, 



WILLIAM MENDEL. 

William Mendel, merchant, was born 
July 7, 1853, in Germany, son of Jacob and 
Caroline Mendel. Educated in the public 
schools of Germany. He is a member of 
the Isador Bush Wine & Liquor Company. 
He began his business career as a clerk in 
1868. In 1872 he came to America. In 
1878 he went into business in Versailles, 
Mo., under the firm name of Bach & Mendel. 
In 1882 started and organized the firm of 
William Mendel. In 1892 became secretary 
and treasurer of the Isador Bush Wine & 
Liquor Company. In 1901 became presi- 
dent. Mr. Mendel is a member of the Co- 
lumbian Club. He is an Israelite in relig- 
ious belief, and in politics he is a Republican. 
Married January 6, 1880, in St. Louis, Mo., 
to Miss Theresa Glaser. Children, Camille 
and Blanche Mendel. Business address, 117 
North Second street ; residence address, 
4216 Morgan street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LILBURN G. McNAIR. 

Lilburn G. McXair, financier, was born 
February 7. 1856, in St. Louis, son of 
Antoine de Reihe and Cornelia (Tiffin) Mc- 
Nair. He was reared in St. Louis, and was 
educated in the public schools and began his 
business career as messenger in tiie office of 
Carlos S. Greely. treasurer of the Kansas 
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office he supplemented the education re- 
ceixed prior to this by attending the night 
schools of the city, and thus, at one and the 
same time, added to his scholastic attain- 
ments and trained himself to business pur- 
suits. By force of genius and effort Mr. Mc- 
Nair was transferred from the position of 
messenger boy to that of the corporation and 
chief financial officer of the entire system of 
railroads under its control, Mr. McNair 
being at this time the youngest treasurer of 
a great railroad company in the United 
States. In 1880 he resigned this position 
and, associating himself with Charles F. 
Tracy, Jr., he engaged in the brokerage bus- 
iness under the firm name of McNair & 
Tracy, in which great success was evidenced. 
Mr. McNair was the first man west of the 
Mississippi river to establish a private wire 
telegraphic connection between St. Louis 
and New York. Later he accepted a posi- 
tion with New York, Philadelphia and 
St. Louis capitalists as president of the Kan- 
sas City Elevated Railway & Tunnel Com- 
pany. His success in this field of enterprise 
caused him to become a promoter of steam 
and street railway building, and he has been 
the conductor of some of the largest opera- 
tions of this kind which have been negotiated 
in the west, and his talent for operations of 
this character has caused him to become 
identified officially as a stockholder of num- 
erous corporations, and he has been a mem- 
ber of the Mississippi Valley Trust Com- 
pany, the Union Casualty & Surety Com- 
pany, and in various branch lines of the 
great railway systems centering in St. Louis. 
He has also, within the past few years, taken 
a place among the leading fruit growers of 
the United States, he and his brother having 
large fruit orchards in southern Missouri 
and Illinois. 



Mr. McNair has been one of the recog- 
nized leaders of society in St. Louis. An 
enthusiastic clubman he holds membership in 
the St. Louis Club, the University Club, the 
Country Club, the Jockey Club, and other 
similar organizations. He has been chair- 
man of the house committee of the Univer- 
sity Club, member of the board of governors 
of the Jockey Club, and has served on all the 
important committees of the St. Louis Club. 
January 23, 1893, he married Miss Minerva 
Primm, of Belleville. 111. Their children are 
Jane and Cornelia Margaret McNair. Busi- 
ness address. Locust, southeast corner of 
Eighth ; residence address, 4629 Berlin ave- 
nue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



EDWARD LEE BRETNOR. 

Edward Lee Bretnor, general agent of 
the J. I. Case Thrashing Machine Co., was 
born April 20, 185 1, at Hollingsworth, Eng- 
land, son of Enoch and Hannah (Thomp- 
son) Bretnor. Parents came to America in 
1863, and located in the state of Illinois. 
The education of Edward Lee was obtained 
at the public and high schools of Rockford, 
111., and he graduated in the class from the 
high school of 1873, also of the Rockford 
Business College. He began his business 
career as clerk in W. F. & John Barnes' 
Manufacturing Company, Rockford, 111., 
manufacturers of iron and wood working 
machinery, where he was assistant in the 
office three years. Bookkeeper in the imple- 
ment business of John Garner at Waverly, 
Iowa, four years, in which he managed the 
business from 1876 to 1880. In 1880 man- 
ager for Hunt, Holt & Garner, Grand Forks, 
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grain, five years. Traveling salesman for 
J. I. Case, 1886 to 1894. In 1894 assistant 
manager, Lincoln, Neb. Came to Kansas 
City, Mo., February, 1899, in the interests 
of the same house as assistant manager. In 
1 90 1 became general manager, occupying 
this position at the present time. He is a 
member of the Masonic fraternity, including 
Chapter ; member of the Implement and 
Vehicle Club of Kansas City, Mo. 

Mr. Bretnor is an enterprising, congenial 
gentleman, successful in promoting the in- 
terests of the company he has been connected 
with, and capable of dispatching a large 
amount of business. Cautious and consider- 
ate in all of his business engagements, he 
possesses the confidence of all who know 
him, and considered reliable and trust- 
worthy. Takes a great interest in all public 
matters concerning the welfare of the state; 
strongly advocates Republican principles, but 
is not a politician, and is a member of the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas City, 
Mo. He was married November i, 1890, to 
Miss Sarah Johnston, of G'rafton, N. D. 
Four children have been born, three living : 
Roy, John and Edna. Residence address, 
2726 Wabash, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JOHN DANIEL PAULUS. 

John Daniel Paulus. Architect. Born 
January 17, 1867, in St. Louis, Mo. Son 
of Daniel and Dorothy Paulus. He was 
educated in the public and private schools 
and art schools of St. Louis, Mo. Mr. 
Paulus began his professional career first as 
a draughtsman, then began business for him- 
self, in 1890. He has been the designer and 
architect of several large business buildings 



of the city of St. Louis, as follows : North- 
west Gymnastic building, Rossi Hotel, and 
many others. He is a member of the A. O. 
U. \V. and K. of P. In religious belief he 
is a Protestant. In politics he affiliates with 
the Republican party. Married, November 
5, 1891, in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Julia 
Herting. Children : Eugene H. and Gert- 
rude W. Paulus. Business address, 28 La- 
clede building ; residence address, 4729 Ken- 
nerly avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LEON BLOCK. 



Leon Block, vice-president of the Kan- 
sas City Bar Association, was born at Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, July 18, 1859. After graduat- 
ing from the common schools of that city, he 
entered the law school of the Cincinnati 
University, graduating therefrom in May. 
1885. After being admitted to practice by 
the Ohio Supreme Court, he entered into 
partnership with Mr. Adolph L. Brown, one 
of Cincinnati's tnost prominent attorneys. 
Mr. Block received, about this time, such 
glowing accounts of the growth and future 
of Kansas City that, after coming here and 
investigating and finding the future of the 
city most promising, he located here perma- 
nently in August, 1886. In January, 1889. 
he formed a co-partnership with Henry N. 
Ess and John Georgen, under the firm name 
of Ess, Block & Georgen, which continued 
for five years. Since 1891 Mr. Block has 
practiced alone. He has figured in a num- 
ber of important cases, among which the fol- 
lowing established precedents of public 
interest. 

Kansas City vs. Building & Loan Asso- 
ciations, in which Mr. Block contended that 



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the city could not tax the bonds and mort- 
gages of building and loan associations, and 
in which contention he was sustained by the 
Supreme Court. 

Clark vs. Fidelity & Casualty Co., 
wherein it was decided, as contended for by 
him, that the suicide clause in the Missouri 
Statutes regarding life insurance applied to 
accident policies insuring life. 

Wurmser vs. Sivey, wherein the Kan- 
sas City Court of Appeals decided, as con- 
tended for by him, that the statute with ref- 
erence to conditional sales requiring the re- 
funding of 75 per cent of installments paid 
by the purchaser, did not apply to chattel 
mortgages securing purchase money payable 
in installments. 

Terti vs. Fire Insurance Co., wherein it 
was decided that clauses in fire insurance 
policies issued in Missouri, which were 
known as the 80 per cent clause, and which 
provided that insured should, in certain 
cases, be a co-insurer of the property insured 
were invalid. 

While enjoying a large general practice 
in the field of commercial law, Mr. Block 
has specialized in the law of insurance and 
real estate, with more particular attention to 
the latter, to which he has devoted much of 
his time for the past thirteen years as attor- 
ney for the Jackson County Mutual Loan & 
Building Association. 

Mr. Block was president of the Progress 
Club in 189 1 and 1892, and has been trustee 
of the congregation, B'nai Jehudah, for ten 
years, as president of which he is now serv- 
ing his second term. 

Mr. Block's high position at the bar has 
been won by honorable conduct and hard, 
conscientious work. He has never sought 
public office, but his high ability as an orator 
has been fully recognized by his party by 



invoking his services in that regard at its 
most important meetings. While still a 
comparatively young man, Mr. Block has 
one of the largest and most lucrative prac- 
tices in the city, and maintains in an equal 
degree the complete confidence and respect 
of both his clients and the bar. Business ad- 
dress, yT,2, New York Life building; resi- 
dence address, 3018 Forest, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM C. STEIGERS. 

William C. Steigers, business manager 
of the Post-Dispatch, was born September 
15, 1847, i" St. Louis, son of Francis I. and 
Sarah (Price) Steigers, who were married 
at Baltimore, Md., in 1840, and came from 
there to St. Louis the same year. His father 
was for many years a grocery merchant of 
St. Louis, and died in this city in 1863. His 
mother died here in 1891. Mr. Steigers was 
educated at the old Cathedral School, on 
Walnut street, between Second and Third 
streets, at the Christian Brothers' College, 
the Benton and Washington public schools, 
and at the old High School, then located at 
the corner of Fifteenth and Olive streets. 
September 15, 1862, he enlisted in the 
Eighth Missouri Regiment of Volunteer In- 
fantry, and was mustered into the Union 
army for service in the Civil war. He 
joined his regiment at Memphis, Tenn., and 
soon afterward, as the result of a competi- 
tive examination, was assigned to duty as a 
member of the United States Signal Corps. 
He served in the armies of Grant and Sher- 
man, and as a participant in the battles of 
Arkansas Post, Chickasaw Bayou, Port 
Hudson, the siege of Vicksburg, and numer- 
ous minor engagements. July 5, 1863, the 



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day after the surrender of Vicksburg, he was 
taken seriously ill, and lay three months in 
the military hospital at that city. In Sep- 
tember he was sent to St. Louis and dis- 
charged from the service on account of 
physical disabilities, resulting from the ex- 
posure and hardships which he had under- 
gone. After his recovery from this illness, 
he accepted a position in the Eagle Foundry, 
of St. Louis, beginning his service there as 
bookkeeper in 1866. In April of 1868 he 
became connected with the business depart- 
ment of the Evening Dispatch newspaper, 
which then had its office at 313 North Third 
street, and was controlled and managed by 
Peter L. Foy and W. H. McHenry. He 
began his connection with the newspaper 
business as collector, and held that position 
until 1870, when he was transferred to the 
advertising department. In October of 
1871, D. Robert Barclay bought the Dis- 
patch, and Mr. Steigers was the only one of 
the old employes, acting as head of a depart- 
ment, who was retained under Mr. Barclay's 
management. He resigned his position with 
the Dispatch, in 1872 to accept the position 
of advertising manager on the Times, then 
managed and controlled by Major Ewing, 
Stilson Hutchins and John Hodnet. In July 
of 1878 he engaged with John A. Dillon, 
publisher and owner of the Evening Post, 
as advertising manager. In December fol- 
lowing the Post and Dispatch were consoli- 
dated under the name St. Louis Post-Dis- 
patch, with Joseph Pulitzer as editor, John 
A. Dillon as head of the business depart- 
ment, and Mr. Steigers as advertising mana- 
ger. He filled this position until October 
I5> 1895, when he was released by C. H. 
Jones, who obtained temporary control of 
the Post-Dispatch, because of Mr. Steiger's 
pronounced advocacy of the Pulitzer inter- 



ests in the Pulitzer-Jones suit for possession 
of the property. He then accepted the posi- 
tion of advertising manager on the New 
York World, which he filled until January 
I, 1807. In March of that year he opened 
negotiations with Col. C. H. Jones to pur- 
chase his interest in the Post-Dispatch, and 
the successful conduct of these negotiations 
resulted in the transfer of Colonel Jones' in- 
terest in the paper to Mr. Pulitzer Mr. 
Steigers was then re-employed as advertis- 
ing manager of the Post-Dispatch, entering 
upon the discharge of his duties January, 
1898. June 1 8th, following, he was made 
business manager, as well as advertising 
manager, and still fills both these positions. 
He always voted the Democratic ticket until 
the Chicago platform was promulgated in 
1896, but since then has voted independ- 
ently. He became a member of the Order 
of Elks in 1883, and has filled all the prin- 
cipal stations of the order, including that of 
exalted ruler. As a result of his long con- 
nection with the publishing business in St. 
Louis, Mr. Steigers has earned and enjoyed 
the reputation of being an able and success- 
ful newspaper manager. Residence address, 
5156 Morgan street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



RUDOLPH F. HEIM. 

Rudolph F. Heim, a well-known archi- 
tect of St. Joseph, was born in Hamburg, 
Germany, January 30, 1874, and is a son 
of Adolph V. A. and Anna (Gensen) Heim. 
Rudolph Heim, grandfather of our subject, 
was a native of Bavaria and filled the posi- 
tion of judge at Schehslitz. 

Rudolph F. Heim was instructed in a 
private school until he was nine years old, 



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his studies including German, Frencii and 
Englisli. He then attended the gymnasium 
at Ostcrburg- until he was twelve years old, 
paying attention to the classics, and then 
transferred to a high class school at Arend- 
see, where he was instructed in the studies 
corresponding to those in the American high 
school curriculum. 

In 1888, when fourteen years of age, he 
prevailed upon his parents to permit him to 
come to America and join the family of his 
uncle, F. W. Gensen, secretary of the 
Pfeififer Stone Company, of St. Joseph. He 
made the long voyage and trip alone, and 
after reaching St. Joseph took a business 
course at the Rittner Commercial College. 
He then devoted four years to learning the 
stone-cutting trade, and during his appren- 
ticeship prepared many of the drawings used 
in the shop. After completing his trade he 
worked in California for a year as a journey- 
man. In February, 1895, he returned to 
Germany and entered the great technical 
school at Ilolzminden, where he was gradu- 
ated in 1897, receiving the coveted degree 
of master of building. After a few months 
of visiting and renewal of old friendships in 
Hamburg, Mr. Heim returned to America, 
in 1897, entering the employ of E. J. Eckel, 
at St. Joseph, with whom he remained until 
190 1, when he opened an architect's office at 
Atchison, Kans., where he stayed until Oc- 
tober of that year, i le then entered into 
partnership with John H. Felt, of St. Jo- 
seph, under the firm name of Felt & Heim, 
which held until October, 1902. In Janu- 
ary, 1903, he opened his present offices in 
the German-American Bank building, where 
he can usually be found, one of the busiest 
men in the city. His work is mainly the 
making of plans for residences, flats and 
business houses, and he has done consider- 



able drawing for parties outside of St. 
Joseph, and with such accuracy and beauty 
of design that he finds his business con- 
stantly increasing. 

In June, 1901, Mr. Heim was married 
to Helen L. Haefeli, who is a daughter of 
Wernhard and Catherine Haefeli, of St. 
Joseph. They have one little daughter, 
Corinne Ida. They belong to the German 
Lutheran Church. Mr. Heim is a member 
of St. Joseph Lodge, No. 40, B. P. O. E. 
Business address, 510 German-American 
Bank building, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



JEREMIAH T. DEW. 

Jeremiah T. Dew. Lawyer, was born 
near Carlyle, in Clinton county. 111., Novem- 
ber 5, 1847, but was reared in St. Clair 
county, on his father's farm at Summerfield, 
111., working on the farm during summer 
months, and attending district school in 
winter. His father, Samuel P. Dew, died 
in the year of 1858, at the age of thirty-six 
years. Mr. Dew's ancestry were from the 
Southern States, those on his mother's side 
coming from Georgia, and those on his 
father's side from Virginia, and both 
branches of the family were represented in 
the Union army in the Civil war. His 
grandfather. Rev. John Dew, as a young 
Methodist minister, came west with the 
Rev. Bishop William McKendree, on edu- 
cational and church ministry work, and 
among the many things that they did in that 
work was the foundation of McKendree 
College at Lebanon, 111., in that early 
day. This college is about the oldest 
educational institution in the State, 
and manv of the best and foremost 



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men of the west received their educa- 
tion there. Rev. Air. Dew was one of the 
first presidents. Although born and reared 
in a slave state, the Rev. John Dew brought 
his slaves inherited from his father's estate 
in Virginia, with him into the then terri- 
tory of Illinois, and voluntarily set them 
free, as a matter of conscience, some thirty- 
five or forty years before the Civil war. The 
subject of this sketch at the age of sixteen 
years, enlisted in the spring of 1864 in Com- 
pany B, i4Sth regiment, Illinois Infantry, 
volunteers, of which company his uncle Ed- 
ward C. Dew was captain, and served faith- 
fully until the close. After the war he enter- 
ed Bryant & Stratton's Commercial College 
at St. Louis, Mo., and later matriculated at 
McKendree College, graduating therefrom 
in 1874. He was chosen, and served as edi- 
tor of the college paper, the McKendree Re- 
pository, and also was president of the lit- 
erary society, and was president of the sen- 
ior class organization, during their gradu- 
ating year. He began reading law w^hile yet 
in college, but believing he could not give his 
law studies that attention they required, 
while engrossed with his regular college 
course, he deferred the further reading un- 
til after his graduation, when he again re- 
sumed the study of law in a law office in 
Nashville, 111., but before finishing his course 
he had determined to settle in the west, and 
removed to Kansas and entered the law 
office of Martin & Case, at Topeka, and sub- 
sequently located in Kansas City, Mo., 
where he was admitted to the bar, and began 
the practice of his chosen profession in 1877. 
About one year later he formed a co-part- 
nership with an established firm, and, under 
the firm name of Tomlinson, Ross & Dew, 
this co-partnership lasted for many years, 
and the firm attained great prominence in 



this part of the State. Subsequently upon 
dissolution of this firm, by the retirement 
from active practice of both Messrs. Tom- 
linson and Ross, Mr. Dew became associ- 
ated with M. R. Downs and A. E. Parkin- 
son, which, after many years was changed to 
Dew, Parkinson & Barnes. Mr. Dew is rec- 
ognized as one of the most reliable, and 
strongest practitioners in this city. He is a 
member of the Kansas City Bar Asociation, 
and was once its president. He is quite 
prominent in Grand Army circles. He is a 
member of Farragut-Thomas post No. 8, 
this city, and has served his post more than 
a decade as its adjutant. He is past post 
commander of Farragut post; has been a 
delegate to the National encampments ; as- 
sistant inspector general ; two or three 
terms a member of the National Council of 
Administration ; also member of the Depart- 
ment of Missouri, Council of Administra- 
tion; department judge advocate; depart- 
ment senior vice-commander; and is the 
present department commander, Department 
of Missouri. Mr. Dew is also a member of 
the various Masonic orders. Business ad- 
dress 820 New York Life Building; resi- 
dence, 1013 Euclid, Kansas City, Missouri. 



THEODORE B. HOAGLAND. 

Theodore B. Hoagland. President of the 
Hoagland Loan & Investment Company, 
was born in Booneville, Cooper county, 
Missouri, in 1845, ^"<^1 i'' '^ -''O" o^ George 
T. and Nannie (Gale) Hoagland, the fam- 
ily being of Dutch descent. 

He was reared and educated in St. Jo- 
seph, attending private schools. He became 
associated with his father in the lumber 



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business at St. Joseph, but was soon obliged 
to give it up because of failing health. About 
1880, his father inaugurated a real estate 
and loan business, of which our subject be- 
came manager. He displayed a high order 
of business ability and continued in that po- 
sition until the organization, in 1902, by the 
Hoagland family, of the Hoagland Loan & 
Investment Company, for the purpose of 
making realty loans in the vicinity of St. Jo- 
seph. This is one of the largest companies 
of the kind in Northwestern Missouri and 
has met with deserved success. 

Our subject is unmarried and lives at 
home with his mother. He is a member of 
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and 
in politics favors the Prihibition party. 
Residence address, 921 Robidoux street, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



GEORGE HOWELL SHIELDS. 

George Howell Shields. Lawyer. Born 
June 19, 1842, at Bardstown, Ky., son of 
George W. and Martha A. (How^l) 
Shields, and removed to Hannibal, Mo., 
with his parents in 1844. He obtained a 
common school education before the war, 
and in 1859 went to Westminister College 
at Fulton, Mo., where he continued until in 
1 86 1, when he returned home and began 
the study of law. The war rendered study 
impossible as he was a member of the Fifty- 
third Regiment of the Enrolled Missouri 
Militia in Company E. During duties in 
connection with his military service, he kept 
up his studies. Later was commissioned by 
Governor Gamble as captain and A. Q. M. 
of the Fifty-third Regiment E. M. M. In 
1864 Mr. Shields went to the Louisville 



Law School and entered the senior class and 
graduated in March, 1865. That fall he 
was elected city attorney of Hannibal on the 
Republican ticket, and was re-elected twice 
afterward without opposition. In 1870 he 
was a delegate to the Republican State con- 
vention ; in the Legislature in 1871-72 he 
was a member of the Judiciary Committee; 
chairman of the committee on Constitutional 
Amendments ; was chosen chairman of the 
Missouri Republican convention in 1872 at 
Jefferson City. In 1873, he removed to St. 
Louis and formed a partnership with Hon. 
John B. Henderson which lasted ten years. 
In 1876 Mr. Shields was elected chairman 
of the Republican State Committee, contin- 
uing until 1880. In 1875, he was elected a 
member of the Constitutional Convention of 
this State. In 1876, was elected by the 
people of St. Louis as one of the Board of 
Freeholders to frame a scheme for the di- 
vision of the city from the county of St. 
Louis, and to frame a charter for the city, 
and was its president. In April, 1889, was 
appointed by President Harrison as assis- 
tant attorney general and had charge of the 
legal business of the Interior Department 
for four years ; then was appointed counsel 
and agent of the United States before the 
United States and Chilean claims commis- 
sion and served for a year and a half under 
the administration of President Cleveland. 
Returning to St. Louis again in December, 
1894, after many experiences, Mr. Shields 
resumed the practice of the law. In Sep- 
tember, 1895, General Noble, whose assis- 
tant he had been for so long in Washington, 
oft'ered him a partnership and the firm of 
Noble & Shields was formed and continued 
for eight years. In February, 1866, he 
married Miss Ma,ry Harrison Leighton. 
They have three living children, George H. 



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Jr., Sarah Bainbridge Leighton, and Marion 
Leighton Shields. Business address, 6i6 
Rialto building/ Fourth and Olive, St. 
Louis. 



FRANK HARLOW. 



Mr. Harlow has been vice-president of 
his business organization ever since its 
founding, and is considered one of the able 
and enterprising business men of this sec- 
tion. He belongs to St. Joseph Lodge, No. 
40, B. P. O. E. Residence address, 614 N. 
Tenth, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



Frank Harlow. Vice-president of the 
McCord-Harlow Shoe Company, of St. Jo- 
seph, was born at Charlestown, N. H., Au- 
gust 27, 1854, and is a son of Jehial and 
Jane S. (Boutelle) Harlow. 

Our subject was fourteen years of age 
when his parents removed to Keene, N. 
H., where he enjoyed the advantages of 
high school training. After several years 
of employment in various mercantile estab- 
hshments, he came west in 1880, accepting a 
position as bookkeeper in a shoe factory at 
Jefferson City, Mo. In 1888 he removed to 
St. Louis, where he continued three years 
in the shoe business, and then came to St. 
Joseph, where he accepted the office of su- 
perintendent for Noyes, Norman & Com- 
pany, with which firm he remained 
for eight years. In 1899 he took the initia- 
tive in the organization of the McCord-Har- 
low Shoe Company, a corporation which 
has developed into one of the city's large 
and important industries. The immense 
product of this firm goes directly to the re- 
tailer without being handled by jobbers. The 
company has built up such a reputation that 
its mere name carries the guarantee of ex- 
cellence. 

On December 23, 1874, Mr. Harlow 
Avas married to Hattie L. Smith, who was 
a daughter of Chauncey Smith, of Hart- 
ford, Conn., and they have three children: 
Nellie J., Bertha M.. and Frank J. 



CHARLES E. SWINGLEY. 

Charles E. Swingley. Chief of the St. 
Louis fire department. Born in Ogle county, 
Illinois, January 4, 1849, son of George and 
Annia (Locker) Swingley. His parents 
went to California the year of his birth 
where he was reared until nine years of 
age, when in 1858 the family removed to 
Kansas and three years later to St. Louis 
where the father died in 1869. Chief 
Swingley received his early education in an 
Illinois country school, and completing it in 
St. Louis. When but twenty years of age 
he joined the fire department as a private 
and his connection with it practically con- 
tinues. His record as a subordinate is ex- 
traordinary both in faithful service and 
bravery, and he may well be proud that dur- 
ing the twenty-six years he was never rep- 
rimanded. He has always responded to the 
call of duty and has never shirked a task. 
Mayor C. P. Walbridge, recognizing his fit- 
ness for this kind of work, appointed him 
chief of the department in 1895. in which 
capacity he has served with distinguished 
ability and was reappointed in 1901 by 
Mayor Henry Zeigenhein. Mr. Swingley 
is vice-president and ex-president of the In- 
ternational Association of Fire Chiefs. He 
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of the Knights Templar, the Mystic Shrine 
and the Knights of Pythias. He was mar- 
ried June 15, 1869, to Miss Eliza Charlton. 
They have three sons, Charles W., Edward 
C. and Benjamin E. Swingley. Business 
address, City Hall building, St. Louis, Mis- 
souri. 



EUGENE H. SCHLANGE. 

Eugene H. Schlange. Wholesale tobacco 
merchant. Born August i, 1881, St. Louis, 
Mo. Son of Joseph and Helen (Thompson) 
Schlange. Educated in private school of St. 
Louis and St. Louis University. After ac- 
quiring his education he entered into part- 
nership with his brother John J. Schlange. 
The firm of John J. Schlange & Co. is com- 
posed of the individual members, John J. 
and Eugene H. Schlange, and was estab- 
lished in 1867. They do an extensive job- 
bing business and wholesale leaf tobacco 
business. Mr. Schlange is a member of the 
Missouri Athletic Club, and Olive and 
Union Club. In religion he is a Catholic. 
Democratic in politics. Business address 
7 S. Second street; residence address 1720 
Longfellow boulevard. 



MAJ. HENRY R. W. HARTWIG. 

Maj. Henry R. W. Hartwig, recently 
elected presiding judge of the county court 
of Buchanan county, ex-mayor of St. Jo- 
seph, and capitalist, soldier and politician, 
is one of the city's distinguished and hon- 
ored citizen. He was born at Neidermoell- 



rich, near Hesse-Cassel, Prussia, on April 
II, 1837, and is also of Frederick Oswald 
and Elizabeth (Rosenblath) Hartwig. 

The boyhood of Henry R. W. Hartwig 
was passed on his father's farm and in at- 
tendance upon the local schools. A quiet 
agricultural career was opened to him there, 
on the family estates, but his ambition 
reached out for another career. After con- 
sidering the advantages offered to young 
and ambitious men by the great land across 
the ocean, he decided to try his fortune in 
America and reach the port of New York in 
1854. His business career was commenced 
as a dry goods clerk at Cleveland, O., where 
he remained until the spring of 1857, when 
he was infected with the fever which sent 
hundreds of the young men of the east to 
build up the enterprises of the undeveloped 
west. He spent one year at Council Bluffs^ 
la., and in Nebraska, and in 1858 he located 
at St. Joseph, Missouri. 

After deciding to locate permanently at 
this point, he entered into the business of 
outfitting miners for the long journey to 
Colorado, as those were the days of the gold 
excitement there and the Pike's Peak emi- 
gration. Possessing the business ability 
which marks his nationality. Major Hart- 
wig was able to realize considerable capital 
in the first year, and as he had come to the 
west with some means found himself in a 
position to embark in an enterprise of his 
own. He established a wholesale and retail 
liquor business, under the firm name of H. 
R. W. Hartwig & Company, which was 
continued until 1863, when Major Hartwig 
engaged in a grain and commission business, 
later transferring his interests to groceries 
and liquors. In 1869 the grocery feature 
was discontinued and from that time until 



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1888 he was engaged in the wholesale liquor 
and rectifying business. 

The outbreak of the Civil war, which 
put to test the manly courage and faithful 
loyalty of so many hitherto peaceful, quiet- 
prosperous citizens, found in Major Hart- 
wig one who could put aside his personal in- 
terests in defense of principles he believed 
right. The spirit of the true soldier was 
inborn, and from the day he entered the 
service until his discharge he had an untar- 
nished record on tlie battle field and in the 
disciplined camp. In the summer of 1861 
he enlisted in Captain Harbine's company of 
Enrolled Missouri Militia and at once was 
made a sergeant. August 21, 1862, he was 
promoted by Gov. Gamble to be first lieuten- 
ant of Landry's battery of artillery. Soon 
after Captain Landry was promoted to the 
rank of major of the Swiss regiment and the 
battery was reorganized with Captain Hart- 
wig at its head and it was then known as 
(Hartwig's Independent Artillery). In that 
service the gallant captain and his devoted 
soldiers continued until 1864, when he was 
promoted by Governor Hall. In October, 
1865, when the Missouri State Militia was 
reorganized. Governor Fletcher commis- 
sioned him major of the First Regiment. In 
1867 he was still further honored by this 
wise executive, by appointment as commis- 
sioner to represent Missouri at the Paris 
Exposition. 

Major Hartwig has been in close accord 
with the Republican party, and has been 
honored many times by this great organiza- 
tion, his years of political activity continu- 
ing from 1870, when he was elected city 
collector of St. Joseph to November, 1904, 
when as one of the nominees on the Republi- 
can ticket he was elected presiding judge 
of the county court by a large majority. In 



the meantime, after serving two years as 
city collector, in 1884 he was called to the 
executive chair of the city and for two 
years served as mayor, during which time 
the municipality grew and was admitted to 
the second class of cities, numerous civic 
improvements were inaugurated and a pe- 
riod of unusual prosperity dawned upon St. 
Joseph. 

In 1888 he was nominated for Congress 
and was defeated only on account of the per- 
sonal popularity of his opponent, Hon. 
James N. Bumes. 

On March i, i860, Major Hartwig was 
married to Caroline Kuechler, of St. Jo- 
seph, whose death took place December 2. 
1885. On March 24, 1898, Major Hartwig 
was married to Emma Vegely, who was a 
daughter of August Vegely. 

Major Hartwig resides at No. 2706 
Seneca street, a home where hospitality 
reigns, which has been the scene of many 
notable gatherings and of innumerable pleas- 
ant social functions. 

Major Hartwig has always worked for 
the development of the city's commercial in- 
terests and has been prominently identi- 
fied with the Board of Trade and with the 
Commercial Club, serving as president of 
the latter organization from 1894 to 1897. 
He has also been president of the Hartwig 
Realty & Investment Company, which 
owns large holdings of valuable real estate 
not alone in St. Joseph and vicinity, but in 
Denver, Col. ; Salt Lake City, Utah ; Wich- 
ita, Kans., and large bodies of land in Mis- 
souri, Kansas and Nebraska. He is re- 
garded as one of St. Joseph's most enter- 
prising and representative citizens, and the 
fact that, after some years of withdrawal 
from the lime-light of public life, he has 
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the sincerity of their esteem for one whose 
years of service in behalf of the city have 
been characterized by abihty and fidehty to 
the confidence reposed in him. Business ad- 
dress Court House, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



JOHN H. FELT. 



John H. Felt. President of J. H. Felt 
& Company, architects, of St. Joe, Mo., 
whose reputation in his profession is en- 
viable in character, is still comparatively a 
young man, his birth having taken place on 
August 6, 1867, at Greenfield, Ind. His 
parents were Sylvester W. and Rebecca J. 
(Latshaw) Felt. 

Mr. Felt was educated in the public 
schools of Greenfield and numbered among 
his acquaintances the poet, James Whitcomb 
Riley, a native of the same place. From 
boyhood Mr. Felt was more interested in 
architecture than in any other line, but in 
his earlier years no opportunity was afforded 
him for its serious study. After leaving 
school, he entered a planing mill, at Green- 
field, of which he was superintendent for six 
years, and during all this time he was using 
every spare moment in the study of archi- 
tectural works. His natural ability in this 
direction combined with his perseverance in 
study and constant observation in all man- 
ner of construction, gave him enough cour- 
age to open an architectural office, in con- 
nection with his mill duties, which he con- 
tinued for two years. During this period 
he received so much encouragement and fur- 
nished plans which proved to be of such 
utility that he decided to open an office in 
the city and to devote his life to his profes- 
sion. His work at Greenfield, which in- 



cluded schcK-)l houses, churches and resi- 
dences, testifies to his ability and established 
his reputation as a competent architect in his 
native city. 

In 1898 Mr. Felt came to St. Joseph, 
Mo., and here formed a partnership with 
Homer H. Carr, who had formerly been em- 
ployed by Mr. Felt, in Indiana, the firm 
name being Felt & Carr. This partnership 
continued until 1901, when on account of 
failing health, Mr. Carr withdrew from the 
firm. Since then the business has been con- 
ducted as J. H. Felt & Company. In 1904 
this company entered into a new enterprise, 
the publishing of a monthly magazine under 
the appropriate title of Modern Architec- 
ture. The aim of this work is to create a 
demand for a better class of architecture 
and architectural service, for the country is 
unfortunately flooded with cheap designs 
which are accepted by ignorant buildqrs, 
whose completed work is never satisfactory. 
This publication has met with a flattering 
reception and seems to fill a long felt want. 

Among the leading buildings con- 
structed by our subject's designs may be 
mentioned : the King Hill Building, resi- 
dence of Dr. Heddens, residence of William 
Bergman, residence of George J. Engle- 
hart, the high school buildings at Savannah, 
Grant City and Macon, Mo., and York, 
Neb. ; the Odd Fellows' School at Liberty, 
Mo. ; the Missouri College for the Feeble 
Minded and Epileptics, at Marshall, Mo. ; 
and like buildings all over the country. Mr. 
Felt married Kate M. Stallard, and they 
have two children, and they attend the 
Methodist Episcopal church. 

Mr. Felt enjoys outdoor sports, is par- 
ticularly fond of hunting, and belongs to 
the Hunting Club of this city. He has long 
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identified with all the leading secret socie- 
ties and with business, political and social 
organizations. He is an Elk, a member of 
Zeredatha Lodge, No. 189, A. F. & A. M., 
Hugh de Payens Commandery, No. 51, 
K. T., and Moila Temple, A. A. O. N. M. 
S. ; a member of Enterprise Lodge, No. 232, 
I. O. O. F. ; senior past sachem of the lodge 
of Red Men at Greenfield, Mo ; and belongs 
to the Lotus, Commercial and Monroe clubs 
of St. Joseph. Residence address, 2723 
Patee, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



ROBERT FRANKLIN WALKER. 

Robert Franklin Walker. Lawyer and 
ex-attorney general of the State of Missouri. 
Born at Florence, Morgan county, Mo., 
November 29, 1850, son of Belford S. and 
Abigail L. (Evans) Walker. After the 
usual preparatory scholastic training, Mr. 
Walker entered the State University at Co- 
lumbia, Mo., graduating therefrom in June, 
1873. After graduation he entered the law 
department of the University, and pursued 
his studies until he received his diploma. 
Next returned to Versailles, and took a post 
graduate course of reading in the office of 
Hon. James P. Ross. After being regularly 
admitted, he went to Texas, practiced there 
for a year then returned to Missouri in 
1876, where in November of the same year 
he was elected to the office of prosecuting 
attorney; ser\'ed the people well and was 
three times re-elected. In 1885 was aj>- 
pointed to the office of assistant attorney 
general of Missouri. Just at the close of 
his official term, the statutory commission 
of 1889, a subject to which Mr. Walker had 
devoted much time and study, was created 



by the general assembly for the purpose of 
re\'ising the Missouri statutes, and he was 
appointed by the commission to asist it in 
its labor. After the completion of the re- 
vision of 1889, Mr. Walker again engaged 
in his practice until November, 1S92, when 
he was elected as attorney general. On the 
expiration of his term, January 11, 1897, 
he removed to St. Louis, and engaged in the 
practice of his profession. Mr. Walker is a 
member of the Baptist Church, stands well 
with Masonic circles and is a member of the 
Knights of Pythias and the Legion of 
Honor. He has been twice married. His 
first wife was Miss Nannie A. Wright, of 
Fayette, Mo., to whom he was married Sep- 
tember 20, 1877. Mrs. Walker died No- 
vember 24, 1892, leaving two children, 
Katherine and Leland. September 28, 
1895, he was married to Mrs. Geneva C. 
Percy, of Brooklyn, N. Y. Business ad- 
dress, 928 Rialto building. Fourth and 
Olive, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ALBERT B. DUNCAN. 

Albert B. Duncan, lawyer, born April 
17, 1862, in Platte county, Mo., son of Rich- 
ard F. and Sarah Ann (St. John) Duncan, 
and his ancestors were Revolutionary sol- 
diers. Educated in the public schools, Wil- 
liam Jewell College, 1880- 1886, graduating 
in 1886 with degree of Bachelor of Arts. 
He was a member of the Phi Gamma fra- 
ternity at college. Mr. Duncan was reared 
on a farm, and after acquiring his education 
engaged in the practice of law, which he has 
continued until the present time. He is a 
member of the legal firm of Duncan & Utz, 
composed of A. B. Duncan and W. H. Utz, 




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established January 21, 1895. Mr. Duncan 
was a member of the city council of St. 
Joseph, Mo., from April, 1891, to April, 
1893; prosecuting attorney of Buchanan 
county from January, 1895, to January 
1897; member of the Democratic State 
Committee 1898-1900; member of the Gen- 
eral Assembly from January, 1901, to Jan- 
uary, 1905; served as member of the judi- 
ciary and appropriation committee and as 
chairman of the committee on municipal cor- 
porations and enrolled bills. Was speaker 
pro tem of the General Assembly during the 
session of 1903. Was appointed by Governor 
A. M. Dockery and served upon the legisla- 
tive committee to audit the accounts of, and 
settle with, the state officers for the years 
1901-1902. He assisted in organizing the 
St. Joseph & Southern Railway Company, 
now defunct. He was a member of all of 
the York rite Masonic bodies and the Order 
of the Mystic Shrine; Elks, Eagles and Red 
Men ; member of the Monroe Democratic 
Club. Democratic in politics and active in 
the interest of his party. 

Mr. Duncan was married, September 9, 
1900, in St. Joseph, Mo., to Mrs. Emma 
Witherspoon. Business address, Lyceum 
Theatre building, southwest corner of Fifth 
and Jule streets; residence address, 1609 
South Tenth street, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



FREDERICK W. SULTAN. 

Frederick W. Sultan. Manufacturing 
chemist. Born in 1864 in Baltimore, Md. 
Mr. Sultan is the president of the Sultan 
Drug Company, (incorporated) and began 
his business career in the manufacturing 
concern of Sharp & Dohmb, of Baltimore, 
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and remained with them up to 1889, where 
he organized the Sulton Drug Company, 
and became interested in the same. The 
concern manufactures ethical pharmaceu- 
ticals, and advertises to physicians only. Mr. 
Sultan is a member of the American Phar- 
maceutical Association, and the St. Louis 
and Glen Echo Clubs. His education was 
acquired in the public schools of Baltimore, 
Pharmacy department and in the Maryland. 
College of Pharmacy. Business address, 
112-114 N. Second street; residence address 
4521 Forest Park boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JOHN M. WOOD. 



John M. Wood. Attorney at law, St. 
Louis, Mo., is a native of Kentucky, was 
born in Franklin county, of that state in 
1850. When he was about five years old 
his parents removed to Missouri, settling in 
Clark county. Here Mr. Wood grew to 
manhood and after attending Lagrange Col- 
lege, he entered the office of the late Judge 
Turner at Kahoka, where he began to study 
law. In 1878 he was admitted to the bar 
and opened an office of his own. Two years 
later he was elected to represent Clark 
county in the Legislature. He was re- 
elected in 1882 and again in 1884. During 
the session of 1885 'i^ was speaker of the 
House. In 1888 he was elected attorney 
general of the State of Missouri and re- 
moved to Jefferson City. At the expira- 
tion of his four years term he located in St. 
Louis, where he has since resided and en- 
gaged in the practice of his profession ex- 
cept while on the bench. In 1895 he was 
appointed judge of the Eighth Judicial Cir- 
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years when he formed a partnership with 
Judge Douglas that was dissolved by the 
election of Mr. Douglas to the circuit judge- 
ship in 1900. Mr. Wood is a member of 
the Jefferson Club, the St. Louis Bar As- 
sociation, the Masonic fraternity and the 
Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 
1886 he married Miss Margaret McKee, of 
Clark county. Mo., and has three daughters. 
Mr. Wood is exceptionally strong as an ad- 
vocate and has a good clientage whose inter- 
ests are his chief concern. Business address, 
204 Laclede building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. JAMES ALEXANDER 
CAMPBELL. 

Dr. James Alexander Campbell, Oculist, 
was born at Platteville, Wis., on January 12, 
1847, being the son of Dr. James C. Camp- 
bell. His mother's maiden name was Per- 
melia C. Oliver. Dr. Campbell's general 
and professional education was received at 
St. Louis and at Berlin, Germany; Vienna, 
Austria; Paris, France, and London. His 
graduation in 1869 was followed by his en- 
try into the practice of his profession, which 
he has followed, with assiduity ever since. 
Dr. Campbell is a member of the following 
learned scientific societies : The American 
Institute of Homoeopathy, which is a na-- 
tional association ; the Western Academy of 
Homoeopathy, the Missoiu-i Institute of 
Homceopathy, the Hahnemann Club, the St. 
Louis Society of Homceopathic Physicians 
and Surgeons, the Southern Homceopathic 
Medical Society, the Indiana Institute of 
Homoeopathy (honorary member). His 
early boyhood was spent at work on a farm 
and in attending country schools up to 1859, 



when he entered college at Kentucky Uni- 
versity, Harrodsburg, Mercer county, Ky., 
and remained there until April, 1861. He 
enlisted at Richmond, Va., on the 23d day 
of April, 1 861, in the Confederate army, and 
was assigned to duty with the First Ken- 
tucky Infantry, under Colonel Blanton Dun- 
can. After one year's service the regiment 
was disbanded, at Yorktown, Va. He then 
came west, and was with General Tilghman, 
of Kentucky, as a staff officer, at Fort Don- 
elson, on the Cumberland River, and Fort 
Henry, on the Tennessee River. He was 
afterwards with him at the battle of Cham- 
pion Hills, in front of Vicksburg, Miss. ; 
was captured at Vicksburg, and subse- 
quently exchanged as a prisoner of war. He 
then joined General Forrest's cavalry, and 
remained with him until the close of the war, 
23d of April, 1865. He devoted a short 
period to farming, in Todd county, Ken- 
tucky, and then embarked as a salesman in 
the wholesale grocery house of Ashbrook, 
Ryan & Co., at Paducah, Ky., and after- 
wards in the wholesale boot and shoe house 
of Merten Brothers, in the same city. In 
the spring of 1867 he went to Philadelphia, 
Pa., and entered the Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege as a student of medicine, and graduated 
March 12, 1869. From Philadelphia he 
came to St. Louis, in April, 1869, and has 
made this city his home since, practicing the 
medical profession. In 1869 and 1870 he 
was demonstrator of anatomy in the St. 
Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
the faculty at that time being made up of 
such bright minds as Dr. Steadman, Dr. 
Outten, Dr. James F. Johnson, Dr. Mont. 
Fallen, and other St. Louis physicians. In 
1876 and 1877 he was chosen physician to 
the Women's Guardian Home, on North 
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tian ladies of St. Louis. In 1891 he was 
appointed by Mayor Noonan to the snper- 
intendency of the Female Hospital and was 
confirmed by the city council, and commis- 
sioned March 16, 1892. Office 407 N. 
Broadway; residence 3438 Lucas avenue, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN VINCENT BOLAND. 

John Vincent Boland. Contractor. As 
time goes on, the fortunes of men change 
and the laborer of yesterday is the contrac- 
tor of to-day. Mr. Boland was born in 
Perrysville, Mo., in 1873 on the 21st day of 
November. Son of John Boland and wife 
Susie (Seemes) Boland. An ancestor, John 
Philip Boland, was in the war of 181 2. John 
Vincent Boland received an education in the 
public school of Missouri. He began as an 
apprentice in the bricklaying trade, 1894, 
worked as a journeyman until 1897 when 
he organized the John V. Boland Construc- 
tion Company, of which he is president. 
While he has not taken an active part in 
politics, he is a Democrat. Business address 
507 Holland building; residence address, 
771 Bayard avenue. 



DR. JOHN N. FRANK. 

Dr. John N. Frank. Ex-coroner of St. 
Louis, is a native of this city — born June 22, 
1848. His father was John N. Frank, and 
his mother Catherine Flesh. The son, John, 
was educated in St. Louis schools and stud- 
ied medicine in the St. Louis Medical Col- 
'^gS) graduating in 1869, at the age of twen- 



ty-one years. He at once entered upon the 
practice of his profession, and became so 
prominent among the young doctors of the 
city that he was appointed assistant at the 
City Hospital. This was followed by a nine- 
months' services as house surgeon in the Mt. 
Sinai Hospital, in New York City. He re- 
turned to St. Louis and resumed his prac- 
tice, becoming a member of the St. Louis 
Medical Society. In 1880 Dr. Frank was 
elected coroner of St. Louis. He was again 
elected in 1888 and in 1892. Dr. Frank is 
known by everybody; but outside of his 
popularity as a citizen, he has a high stand- 
ing in his profession as a physician and sur- 
geon, which contributes very largely to his 
success. He was married in 1878, but be- 
ing bereaved in 1891, has married again. 
Residence address, 1723 Waverly Place, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN W. HARRISON. 

John W. Harrison. Manufacturer. Born 
in Howard county, Missouri, in 1840. Son 
of John and Pamela (Marr) Harrison. Was 
reared on a farm near Glasgow, Mo. Be- 
came a student in the State University at 
Columbia, Mo., from which he was grad- 
uated in the class of 1858. Came to St. 
Louis in 1859 and entered upon a special 
course of study designed to give him a bet- 
ter knowledge of practical methods in the 
conduct of business afifairs. Under the pre- 
ceptorship of Professor Jonathan Jones of 
Jones Commercial College, he gained a thor- 
ough knowledge of bookkeeping and com- 
mercial law. He began his business career 
in i860 as manager of the iron furnace at 
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with the intention of establishing himself 
permanently in the business in this city. In 
company with Messrs. Frederick Shickle 
and Thomas Howard, he established the 
Shickle, Harrison & Howard Iron Com- 
pany. In 1890, in company with Thomas 
Howard, Mr. Harrison organized the How- 
ard-Harrison Iron Company, which erected 
large iron pipe works at Bessemer, Ala. Of 
both these corporations Mr. Harrison was 
president, and also the principal owner of 
stock in both companies. He is a member 
of St. Johns M. E. Church, South, of St. 
Louis. Mr. Harrison is now largely inter- 
ested in the Missouri Lincoln Trust Com- 
pany and vice-president of the same. Mr. 
Harrison has been twice married. First, in 
i860, to Miss Laura Harrison, a union to 
which three children were born. After the 
death of his first wife he married Mrs. A. E. 
Campbell of Carrollton, Mo. Business ad- 
dress, 318 N. Eighth, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JUDGE JAMES GIBSON. 

Judge James Gibson. Born November 
19, 1849, '" Cooper county, Mo., was edu- 
cated in the common schools of the county 
and at Kemper College at Booneville, Mo. 
It was upon the farm wliere he was born and 
reared that he learned those habits of inde- 
fatigable industry and self reliance that has 
characterized his career since arriving at 
manhood. In 1871 he removed to Kansas 
City, Mo., where he has since resided. Was 
admitted to the bar in 1875, elected city at- 
torney of Kansas City in 1877, re-elected in 
1878; 1880 Democratic presidential elector 
of the Fifth Congressional District, then 



composed of Cass, Jackson, Clay and Piatt 
counties; 1883 elected mayor of Kansas 
City. At the close of his term he was ten- 
dered a unanimous renomination which 
honor he declined; 1889 appointed judge of 
the circuit court of Jackson county, and at 
the next election in 1890 was elected to the 
same position, serving until 1894, when he 
resigned to return to the practice of his pro- 
fession. His paternal great-grandfather, 
John Gibson, was a Pennsylvanian, served 
in the Revolutionary war, and was wounded 
in the battle of Brandywine. Judge John 
Bannister Gibson, the noted chief justice of 
Pennsylvania, was also a member of this 
family. Hugh Gibson, the grandfather of 
Judge Gibson, was lx)rn in Pennsylvania 
and in early life removed to Montgomery 
county, Virginia. Served as a captain in 
the war of 181 2. Married Elizabeth B. Rut- 
ledge, daughter of General Rutledge, a 
member of the famous Rutledge family of 
South Carolina, and one of the heroes of 
"King's Mountain." John Hugh Gibson, 
the father of Judge Gibson was born in Vir- 
ginia and removed to Missouri at an early 
age, where he followed farming up to the 
time of his death. Judge Gibson's mother, 
Mary A. Hill, was a lineal descendant of 
Robert Hill of North Carolina, who was 
born in Virginia in 1750, and served in the 
Revolutionary war as a captain in the North 
Carolina forces. She was born in Cooper 
county, Missouri, Dec. 15, 1818, which at 
that time was yet a territory. Was a grand- 
daughter of Samuel Peters, who served in 
the war of 181 2 and was one of the earliest 
settlers of Missouri, Petersburg, in Cooper 
county, being named after the worthy pio- 
neer. November 18, 1880, Judge Gilison 
married Miss Mary P. Pence of Piatt 
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of the leading farmers of northwestern 
Missouri. Business address, 609 Bryant 
building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FESTUS J. WADE. 

Festus J. Wade. Real estate operator. 
Born in St. Louis in i860. Education lim- 
ited and self acquired. In 1875 he embarked 
in the first business adventure on his own 
account, engaging at that time in the manu- 
facturer of cider. Disposed of his business 
and became clerk and paymaster for a con- 
tractor who was constructing a portion of 
the present Wabash railroad extending from 
Ferguson station south to the Union Depot. 
In 1877, he became clerk in the city office 
of the St. Louis Fair Association, the most 
famous organization of its kind in the 
United States. In this position his natural 
appetite was given full scope and the ex- 
cellent training which he received aided 
largely to develop that ability for the suc- 
cessful conduct of business affairs which 
has since brought him such well merited dis- 
tinction. In 1883, he received the first 
marked recognition in his appointment to 
the position of secretary of the Fair Asso- 
ciation. He succeeded Mr. G. O. Kalb, who 
had resigned the secretaryship of the fair, 
holding the secretaryship of the fair asso- 
ciation until December 31, 1886, and then 
resigned to accept a similar position with the 
August Gast Bank-Note and Lithographic 
Company. He remained in the employ of 
the Bank-Note Company until July of 1888, 
but in the meantime he organized, in com- 
pany with L. E. Anderson & Company and 
embarked in a business for which he has 
shown himself to be admirably fitted. This 



firm was organized on the 17th of March, 
1887, and was succeeded in July of 1888 by 
the corporation known as the Anderson- 
Wade Realty Company. When this corpor- 
ation was formed Mr. Wade resigned his 
position with the Bank-Note and Litho- 
graphic Company and since then has devoted 
all his time and attention to the real estate 
business. He has been the prime mover in 
inaugurating enterprises which have re- 
sulted in the erection in St. Louis since the 
year 1890, of more than fifty buildings, 
among them being the Planters' Hotel, the 
Rialto building, the Columbia and Republic 
office buildings and the business houses oc- 
cupied by the Hergadine-McKittrick Dry 
Goods Company, the Roberts-Johnson- 
Rand Shoe Company and the Desnoyer 
Shoe Company. Business address. Eighth 
and Locust, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM HUTTIG. 

William Huttig, president of the West- 
ern Sash & Door Company, which is one of 
the largest and most important manufactur- 
ing concerns in Kansas City, was born in 
Muscatine, la., November 26, 1859. He 
was educated at the public schools, and at 
the early age of ten years began work in the 
establishment of his father, Frederick Hut- 
tig, who was one of the pioneer sash and 
door manufacturers of tlie entire Mississippi 
valley. William began at the bottom of the 
ladder of business, and during the years that 
have since passed away has risen step by 
step until he now occupies a commanding 
position in the world of business. His plant 
is now one of the largest in all the west, if 
not in the world. In 1882 the establish- 



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ment was removed to Kansas City, at which 
time the capitaHzation was but thirty thou- 
sand dollars. At present it is about one 
million dollars. Mr. Huttig is president of 
this mammouth concern. He is also vice- 
president of the Fidelity Trust Company, a 
director of the Eagle Manufacturing Com- 
pany, the Sonora Developing Company. He 
is also one of the executive members of the 
Mexico & Orient Railroad. He is a mem- 
ber of the Commercial and Kansas City 
clubs; and at all times is active in the sup- 
port of all worthy measures to promote the 
public welfare and the upbuilding of Kan- 
sas City. Business address. Twenty-third, 
corner Grand avenue and Baltimore, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



ROBERT ELI COLLINS. 

Robert Eli Collins. Lawyer. Born at 
Florence, Pike county. III, January 7. 185 1, 
son of Monroe R. and Esther (Baker) Col- 
lins. His parents were residents of St. Louis, 
but were temporarily located at Florence at 
the time of their son's birth, and soon after- 
ward returned to their home in St. Louis 
where he grew up to manhood. He at- 
tended the city schools, and in 1872 was 
graduated from Washington and Lee Uni- 
versity, Va., with the degree of bachelor of 
arts. He then began the study of law with 
Britton A. Hill, and attended the regular 
course of lectures of the St. Louis Law 
School. Soon after being admitted to the 
bar he formed a partnership with James A. 
Carlisle. After this partnership was dis- 
solved he formed another with his old pre- 
ceptor, becoming junior member of the firm 
of Hill & Collins. This association con- 



tinued until 1 88 1, when the firm of Collins 
& Jamison was formed. Later the firm of 
Collins & Chappell was formed, being now 
one of the oldest and best known firms in 
the city. Politically Mr. Collins is a Demo- 
crat, is a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
Church and is one of the stewards of St. 
John's. Is a member of the Masonic fra- 
ternity. In 1880 became a member of the 
Occidental Lodge, No. 163, of St. Louis, 
and has held all the ofifices in the lodge. In 
1884 became a member of the Great Lodge 
of the State of Missouri. Since 1896 has 
been chairman of the committee on juris- 
prudence. 

In 1873 Mr. Collins married Miss Ida 
K. Bishop, of Baltimore, Md. Two daugh- 
ters have been born to them : Ida Kate died 
when she was nine years old, and Esther is 
the wife of Edwin R. Chappell, Mr. Collins' 
present law partner. Business address, 220 
North Fourth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MILTON HENRY GIBBS. 

Milton Henry Gibbs. Born February 
8, 1864, in Ripon, Wis. Son of Alfred C. 
and Mary S. (Wilson) Gibbs, natives of 
New York. He was educated in the public 
schools of Ripon and Montello high school, 
graduating in the class of 1882. He began 
his business career as bookkeeper for a mill 
and elevator company at Valley Springs, 
S. D., serving five years in this calling. In 
1887 became traveling salesman for the 
Walter A. Wood Mowing and Reaping 
Machine Company and was in their employ 
altogether for three years, and with W'alter 
A. Wood Harvester Company at St. Paul. 
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D. M. Osborn & Company, as traveling 
salesman, and remained in their employ in 
this capacity until the fall of 1899. Assis- 
tant manager from 1899 to 1903 in St. 
Louis. Manager in 1903, in Kansas City, 
Mo., store, and continues in the same posi- 
tion until the present time. Mr. Gibbs is 
considered one of the leading implement 
and machine men in the west, his success as 
a solicitor made him prominent for further 
promotion, and his services as manager has 
materially increased the business of the 
house he represents, making the Kansas City 
branch one of the leading branch houses of 
the company. He is an up-to-date man in all 
that pertains to his business. He is a mem- 
ber of the Kansas City Implement, Vehicle 
and Hardware club, and the United Com- 
mercial Travelers Association. In religious 
belief he is a Congregationalist. He was 
married April 11, 1888, to Miss Addie M. 
Dorman of Guilford, N. Y. Three children 
born, Lutie May, Addie Dorman, Mary 
Katherine. Residence address, 909 Indiana, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



C. LESTER HALL, M. D. 

C. Lester Hall, M. D. Born at Arrow 
Rock, Saline county. Mo., March 10, 1845. 
His ancestry is Scotch and English, and the 
American branch on both sides was planted 
in colonial days. He is a son of Dr. Mathew 
W. and Agnes J. (Lester) Hall. The 
father was a son of Rev. Nathan H. Hall, a 
native of Kentucky, a Presbyterian clergy- 
man, of striking personality and great abil- 
ity, who preached in Lexington, Ky., for a 
quarter of a century, and for some years 
afterwards in St. Louis. Mo. He died in 



Columbia, Mo., at the age of seventy-six 
years. Mathew W., born in Kentucky, be- 
came a physician of much ability; he prac- 
ticed in Salem, 111., from 1837 until 1845; 
in the latter year he removed to Arrow 
Rock, Mo., where he practiced for twelve 
years, afterwards removing to his farm near 
Marshall, where he passed the remainder of 
his life. During the Civil war he served as 
surgeon in the Confederate army. He 
twice represented his district in the Legisla- 
ture. He was an earnest Presbyterian and 
an elder in that church for many years. 

C. Lester Hall, the oldest son, derived 
his second name from his mother largely 
out of regard for her brother, Dr. Thomas 
B. Lester, an eminent practitioner and 
author. He was brought upon the home 
farm, and attended school in the neighbor- 
hood and at Booneville. In 1862, when 
seventeen years of age, he attached himself 
to the army of Gen. Sterling Price, but after 
the affair at Le.xington, he was invalided 
home. He rejoined the army in December 
following, but was subsequently captured, 
with Colonel Robertson's command, at Mil- 
ford, Mo., and after being held as a prisoner 
for three months, took the oath of allegiance 
to the United States and returned home. He 
studied medicine with his father, and in 
Booneville. He was a student in the St. 
Louis Medical College, in 1864-65, and in 
the Jefferson Medical College in the sessions 
of 1866-67, graduating in the latter year. 
For six years following he was associated in 
country practice with his father at the farm 
home. In 1873 he removed to Marshall, 
Mo., where for seventeen years he was en- 
gaged in a large and remunerative practice. 
In September, 1809, he removed to Kansas 
City, Mo., since which time he has been a 
conspicuous member of the medical profes- 



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sion, a leader in the women's department, of 
general practice, with a special talent for the 
treatment of the diseases of women. He is 
a member of the American Medical Associa- 
tion. The Western Surgical and Gyneco- 
logical Association, the Missouri State Med- 
ical Society, of which he has been president ; 
the Jackson County Medical Society and the 
Kansas City Academy of Medicine, which 
he served as president. He is also president 
of the faculty of the Medico-Chirurgical 
College and professor of gynecology and 
abdominal surgery. 

Dr. Hall was married, June i6, 1869, 
to Miss Katherine Sappington, daughter of 
Hon. E. D. and Penelope (Breathitt) Hall. 
Her maternal grandfather was a former 
governor of Kentucky. Of five children 
born of this marriage, one died in infancy. 
Three living are Dr. Darwin Wallace Hall, 
a graduate of the University Medical 
College, Kansas City; a post-graduate 
of the Polyclinic School of New York, 
a rhinologist and laryngologist, practic- 
ing in association with his father, and a 
member of the Medico-Chirurgical Society ; 
Penelope, wife of Leon Smith, of the Smith- 
McCord Dry Goods Company; C. Lester 
Hall, educated in the Chicago University. 
Business address, 525 Bryant block, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



MONROE R. COLLINS. JR. 

Monroe R. Collins, Jr., financier, was 
born February 8, 1854. son of Monroe R. 
Collins, Sr. He is a nephew of the late 
Peter Jesse G. Lindell, who came to this city 
at an early date and engaged extensively in 
various enterprises, built up vast fortunes 



and left their names linked indissolubly with 
the city's growth and progress. 

Mr. Collins was educated at ^\'ashington 
University, and began his business career as 
shipping clerk in a wholesale grocery house, 
later establishing a general collecting agency 
in St. Louis. In 1879, forming a partnership 
with Delos R. Haynes, engaged in the real 
estate business under the firm name of 
Haynes & Collins. In 1884 he established 
what is now the widely known real estate 
firm of M. R. Collins, Jr., & Co.. of which 
he has since been the manager and executive 
head. Inheriting a portion of the Lindell 
estate, he became largely interested in the 
management of the properties belonging to 
the estate, and has been the representative 
of many eastern and local capitalists of this 
city. He has laid out several additions to 
the city and suburbs of St. Louis, two of 
which have been named for him : "Collins' 
additions to Kirkwood," and "Collins' sub- 
division" at EUendale. He is vice-president 
and secretary of the Collins' Real Estate Co. 
From November i, 1895, to April 12, 1897, 
he was secretary of the St. Louis Real Es- 
tate Exchange, and a long time has been a 
member of that body. Served one term as a 
member of the St. Louis House of Dele- 
gates, and while in that body was speaker 
pro tem of the house, chairman of the ways 
and means committee and member of the 
committee on public improvements. He 
affiliates with St. John's Methodist Episco- 
pal Church, South, and in Masonic circles he 
is well known as a member of Occidental 
lodge No. 163, St. Louis Chapter No. 8, 
Ascalon Commandery No. 16, and Moolah 
Temple of the Mystic Shrine. Served five 
years as member of the Masonic Board of 
Relief. 

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Clara Shewell, of Philadelphia, who belongs 
to an old English family which settled in the 
Quaker City about the year 1700. Business 
address, i and 2, second floor, Chestnut, 
southeast corner of Eighth street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



GIBBON WILLIAM CARSON, M. D. 



ular and distinguished Mason, and is iden- 
tified with other fraternal organizations. 
Past eminent commander of St. Aldermar 
Commandery No. 18, K. T., and grand cap- 
tain general of the Grand Commandery of 
Missouri, and grand master of the Grand 
Council of R. & S. M. He married, in 1879, 
Miss Bettie N. King, of Fulton, Mo. Busi- 
ness address, 313 North Ninth street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



Gibbon William Carson, M. D., was 
born in Washington county. Mo., July 8, 
1854, son of James A. and Mary (Wingo) 
Carson. He was educated at Belview Col- 
lege, Caledonia, Washington county. Mo., 
and at Westminster College, Fulton, Cala- 
way county. Mo. He read medicine at St. 
Louis, 1876-78, and in the latter year was 
graduated with honor in the degree of medi- 
cine from Missouri Medical College. For 
some time Dr. Carson was connected offi- 
cially and professionally with the health de- 
partment of the city of St. Louis as physi- 
cian of the City Asylum for the Insane, the 
Female Hospital, the Poor House, the City 
Hospital and the City Dispensary, and part 
of this time filling the office of secretary of 
the Board of Health of the city of St. Louis. 
He severed his connections with these insti- 
tutions to enter upon private practice in 
which he has gained an enviable reputation 
with the public, also his profession and as 
a family physician. Studious, thoroughly 
conscientious, and tireless in his efforts in 
behalf of his patients, he has gained a large 
and a constantly increasing patronge. He 
has been president of the Alumni Associa- 
tion of the Missouri Medical College, and is 
a member of the St. Louis Medical Society. 
Dr. Carson is a Presbyterian in his religious 
views and a Democrat in politics. Is a pop- 



DANIEL CATLIN. 



Daniel Catlin. Manufacturer. Born in 
1837, in Litchfield, Conn. He was reared 
and educated in St. Louis, and trained to 
the business, in which he has since been so 
eminently successful, in early boyhood. In 
his young manhood he became the manager 
of his father's tobacco factory, and at once 
greatly expanded its operations. Giving 
special attention to the manufacture of fine- 
cut chewing and smoking tobacco, he placed 
on the market the noted brands known as 
"Golden Thread," "Meerschaum," "Old 
Style" and "Huntress," which have become 
known everywhere, and have carried the 
names and fame of the manufacturers to all 
parts of the country. In 1876 the corpora- 
tion known as the Catlin Tobacco Company 
was organized, of which Mr. Catlin became 
president, and remained at its head until 
1898, when he and his associates sold the 
property, which they had built up, to a mam- 
moth corporation, which at that time con- 
solidated many of the leading tobacco man- 
ufactories of the country under one manage- 
ment. During the later years of its exist- 
ence the Catlin Tobacco Company had in its 
employ more than four hundred persons. 



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and was numbered among the leading indus- 
trial institutions of St. Louis. 

Mr. Catlin is also largely interested in 
real estate, banking and other enterprises, 
and he is officially identified with some of 
the strongest financial institutions of the 
city. He married Miss Justina Kayser, of 
St. Louis. Business address, 319 North 
Fourth; residence address, 21 Vanderventer 
Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MICHAEL HANICK. 

Michael Hanick, railroad constructor, 
was born near the town of West Port, Mayo 
county, Ireland, August 25, 1848, son of 
Owen and Bridget (Nolan) Hanick. He 
received a good education in the schools of 
the region in which he was raised. While 
still a boy he became connected with the 
live stock trade, and in 1865 was sent to 
Liverpool, England, where he acted as 
transportation agent until 1867, in which 
year he came to the United States, landing 
in New York, where he entered the employ 
of a wealthy farmer living near Geneva. 
After a few months he went to the Mar- 
mora iron mines, in Peterboro county, Can- 
ada, and engaged in the building of a short 
stretch of railroad. After that he was for 
three years inspector of ores at the mines, 
and then went from there to Chicago, 111., 
where he remained one year, employed a 
portion of the time as foreman in street 
construction. Shortly after tliis he entered 
the employ of the Rock Island Railroad 
Company, engaged in track-laying on lines 
constructed in Iowa by that company, until 
1871. Later he was identified with railway 
construction on the Burlington & South- 



western Railroad; the Springfield & Green- 
field Railroad, in Missouri ; and the Cuba & 
Salem Branch Railroad, until in 1S73, when 
he established himself in tlie freighting busi- 
ness at Salem, Mo. Soon removed to St. 
Louis, and for two years was connected with 
the work of constructing the Eads bridge 
tunnel in this city. From 1878 to 1880, 
was junior member of the firm of Cary & 
Hanick, general constructors, and engaged 
in this business on his own account when 
this partnership was dissolved in 1880. 
Formed, in 1881, a partnership with Tim- 
othy W. Scott, under name of Hanick & 
Scott. During this association the firm 
built the Clayton & Forest Park Steam Rail- 
road, the section of the "Frisco" railroad 
between St. Louis and Kirkwood, and a por- 
tion of the Jacksonville & Southeastern 
Railway, and did much street construction 
work. In 1882 completed a levee contract 
in Bolivar county. Miss. He built the Creve 
Coeur Brancii railroad, the Bald Knob 
Branch of the Iron Mountain Railroad, the 
Lindell Street Railroad, and was engaged 
in the construction of the Terminal Rail- 
road of St. Louis. He also built the South- 
ern electric line to Jefferson Barracks; the 
Eastern Avenue line from King's Highway 
to the city limits; the Jefferson Avenue line; 
the Meramec Heights line ; the Chouteau 
and Euclid Avenue lines, and has done much 
good work for tiie city. As a result of his 
large contracting operations and sagacious 
investments, he has accumulated a comfort- 
able fortune, and is numbered among the 
successful self-made men of St. Louis. Is 
vice-president of the Atlantic Quarry & 
Construction Company. Engaged in quarry, 
street construction and general railroad con- 
struction. In 1904 built the Terminal Belt 
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Paul Society, and of the Society of Knights 
of St. Patrick. Pohtically, identified with 
the Democratic party, and his rehgious affil- 
iations are with the Catholic Church. 

June 4, 1874, Mr. Hanick married Miss 
Margaret McMahon. Their children are: 
Owen, Annie, Michael, Frank H., Fidelis, 
Agnes, Florence and Joseph Hanick. Office 
address, 217 Benoist building; residence ad- 
dress, 4329 Laclede avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 

*--¥ 

RICHARD BARTHOLDT. 

Richard Bartholdt, congressman and 
journalist, was born November 2, 1853, in 
the town of Schleiz, Germany. He came to 
this country when but seventeen years of 
age, having been educated in his native 
town. For four years he lived in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., where he learned the printer's trade. 
He came to St. Louis in 1857 and entered 
the printing rooms of a leading German 
paper, Dcr Anzeigcr des Wcstens. He 
worked in this capacity until 1876, when, 
with the accumulation of his yearly savings, 
he returned to the fatherland for a pleasure' 
trip and, combining profit with pleasure, 
while abroad, he studied law. Two years 
later he returned to the United States and 
with broadened knowledge he adopted jour- 
nalism as a profession, and immediately be- 
gan on his chosen work in New York city. 
His fondness for St. Louis, however, 
brought him back to that city in 1884, 
where he took charge of a German paper, 
The Tribune, which he soon brought to a 
degree of great excellence and established it 
as a leading periodical of St. Louis, particu- 
larly among the German speaking residents 
of this city. 



In 1890 Mr. Bartholdt entered politics at 
the earnest solicitation of his friends. He 
was elected a member of the city school 
board by a large majority, and the following 
year was made president of that body so 
successfully had he discharged his duties in 
the previous office. In 1892 he was sent to 
Congress on the Republican ticket from the 
Tenth Missouri district, receiving a major- 
ity of three thousand votes, thus silently at- 
testing his popularity as a candidate, and 
his labors in the national legislature two 
years later received the overwhelming ma- 
jority of eight thousand votes. He was re- 
elected in 1896 and again in 1898, and now 
takes rank among the able and still promis- 
ing members of the American Congress. 
Residence address, 3319 Sputh Ninth street, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



JULIUS CHARLES BIRGE. 

Julius Charles Birge. Manufacturer. 
Bom November 18, 1839, in Whitewater, 
Wis. Son of William and Mary (Nobles) 
Birge. Mr. Birge was the first white child 
born in Walworth county. He was reared 
and received his early education in that new 
community, and then went to Beloit Col- 
lege, where he entered upon a classical 
course of study. In 1855, on account of 
the failing health of his father, he was 
obliged to return to home duties. His 
father had Ijeen one of the leading business 
men of Whitewater, dying in i860. Julius 
C. Birge being the only son, assumed the 
entire charge and management of the estate. 
He continued to reside in Whitewater until 
1867, when he disposed of his principal in- 
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established himself in business here as a 
dealer in agricultural implements and ma- 
chinery. Later became a stockholder in the 
Semple & Birge Manufacturing Company, 
and for several years was a director and 
vice-president of the Winchester & Part- 
ridge Manufacturing Company, which was 
engaged extensively in the manufacture of 
wagons and machinery at Whitewater, W'is. 
After the death of the two senior officers of 
this corporation, it discontinued business. 
Mr. Birge has been a stockholder in and 
president of the Seymour Manufacturing 
Company, at Seymour, Ind. He is president 
of the St. Louis Shovel Company. In poli- 
tics he is a Republican. As a churchman he 
has been prominently identified with various 
enterprises of a public character. He has 
been trustee of the Marion-Sims Medical 
College since it came into existence. During 
the year 1879 was president of the Congre- 
tional Club, of St. Louis. Was reared in the 
Congregational faith, and since 1873 has 
been a member of the Pilgrim Congrega- 
tional Church, of St. Louis. Is a member 
of the Masonic order, of the Knights Tem- 
plar degree. December 4, 1873, married 
Miss Mary Patrick, of St. Louis. Business 
address, 4038 Duncan avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JAMES CLREEN. 



James Green. Manufacturer and capi- 
talist. Born in Staffordshire. England, Sep- 
tember 23, 1829, and came to this country 
in 1852. For several years after he worked 
in the eastern states, taking charge at dif- 
ferent times of several rolling mills and fur- 
naces, which were then among the largest in 
the United States. In 1857 he came to St. 



Louis and took charge of the Laclede Roll- 
ing Mills, where he remained for seventeen 
years thereafter. During that time he built 
the Belcher Sugar Refinery, projected by 
Charles Belcher and Judge Lackland ; the 
furnaces at the Helmbacher Forge and Roll- 
ing Mills, and also the Bessemer Iron 
Works in East St. Louis; the Vulcan Steel 
Works ; the Jupiter Furnaces in Caronde- 
let; the Springfield Rolling Mills, of Spring- 
field, 111., and many other kindred manu- 
facturing plants. In 1865 he established, on 
his own account, in a comparatively small 
way, a plant for the manufacture of fire 
brick at Cheltenham. The plant grew stead- 
ily and yielded good returns, and in 1869 
the business thus established was incorpo- 
rated as the Laclede Fire Brick Manufact- 
uring Company. Rapid development fol- 
lowed and now these works are among the 
most celebrated of their kind in the world. 
Here are made all kinds of fire brick, gas 
retorts, blast furnace linings, culvert and 
sewer pipe, paving brick and many other 
products which find their way into all the 
markets of the United States and into all 
foreign markets as well. Mr. Green is pres- 
ident of the corporation owning and con- 
trolling these works and has been one of the 
creators of an industry which has contrib- 
uted largely toward making St. Louis famous 
as a manufacturing center. He is an inves- 
tor with many corporations, among which 
may be mentioned the Greencastle Gas Com- 
pany, of Greencastle, Ind. ; the Helmbacher 
Forge and Rolling Mills Company ; the Se- 
dalia Electric Light & Power Company, of 
Sedalia, Mo., and the Moberly Gas & Elec- 
tric Company, of Moberly, Mo., of all of 
which corporations he is president ; and tiie 
St. Louis & Suburban Railway Company, 
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Company, in each of which he has been a 
director. One of the purely pubhc enter- 
prises of St. Louis with which he has been 
officially identified and in which he has 
taken a deep interest, is the St. Louis Fair, 
which he helped make the most famous insti- 
tution of its kind in the country. 

Mr. Green is married and has four sons 
and one daughter, his children being named 
respectively, James, Thomas T., J. Leigh, 
Rumsey and Mabel Green. Business ad- 
dress Manchester avenue and Sulphur, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



member of the American Bar Association, 
and of the Missouri State and the St. Louis 
Bar Associations. Business address. City 
Hall building. St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES WOODSON BATES. 

Charles Woodson Bates. City counselor 
of St. Louis. Born in St. Charles county, 
Mo., January 23, 1864, son of Richard and 
Ellen (Woodson) Bates. Received his early 
education in the public schools of St. 
Charles county, later in those of St. Louis, 
and his college training at Westminster 
College and Fulton, Mo., from which insti- 
tution he was graduated in 1883. He im- 
mediately began fitting himself for the legal 
profession and after completing his course 
in the St. Louis Law School he was ad- 
mitted to the bar and gained his first experi- 
ence as a practitioner in this city. In 1888 
removed to Greeley, Col., practiced in that 
state three years. Then returning to St. 
Louis he again opened his law offices 
and has since been in active practice of his 
profession. On November i, 1901, Mr. 
Bates was appointed by Mayor Wells to the 
office of associate city counselor and in Jan- 
uary of the following year, was appointed 
city counselor, which position he is now fill- 
ing. In politics he is a Democrat. Is a 



WILLIAM RANDOLPH BURNHART. 

William Randolph Burnhart. President 
Burnhart Mercantile Company. Born 1850, 
in Canada. Son of Robert G. and Mary 
Susan (Randolph) Burnhart. He was edu- 
cated in the public and private schools of 
Weston, Mo. Mr. Burnhart is a member 
of the Burnhart Mercantile Company (in- 
corporated), and is president of same. The 
company is composed of William Randolph 
Burnhart, president; C. L. Burnhart, vice- 
president, and Robert E. Woodson, secre- 
tary, wholesale edibles. Mr. Burnhart is a 
member of the Businessmen's League. In 
politics he is Democratic. He was married 
September 17, 1885, in St. Louis, Mo., to 
Miss Fanny G. Woodson. Six children 
born, three sons and three daughters. Bus- 
iness address, 518-20 N. Second street; res- 
idence address, 4221 Delmar boulevard. 



JAMES CAMPBELL. 

James Campbell. Broker and railroad 
man. Born in Ireland in the year 1848. 
When about two years old came with his 
parents to America and located at Wheel- 
ing, W. Va., where he continued to live until 
the breaking out of the Civil war when he 
was appointed to the position of messenger 
on the staff to General Fremont. Later went 
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Fremont into the brokerage business. Mr. 
Campbell devoted much time to the study of 
civil engineering and soon after leaving the 
service of General Fremont, he secured a 
position with the Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
Railroad as assistant engineer continuing 
with the same and the Iron Mountain Rail- 
road until 1 87 1. Then he secured the ap- 
pointment of chief engineer of the old Kan- 
sas, Memphis & Mobile Railroad, which po- 
sition he held until 1874. In 1876 was ap- 
pointed receiver for the Northwestern State 
Railroad Company of St. Louis, now, under 
the name. Mound City Street Railway. 
Later Mr. Campbell embarked in the oc- 
cupation of stock and bond brokerage and 
gives special attention to local securities. 
Under his active and observant management 
he soon built up one of the largest and 
most profitable brokerage establishments in 
the west. He was one of the directors of 
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Busi- 
ness address, 218 Rialto building, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



DE LACY CHANDLER. 

De Lacy Chandler. Merchant and grain 
dealer. Born February 17. 1856, at Fancy 
Hill, Rockbridge county, Virginia. Son of 
Dr. Samuel Temple and Reubenia (Grigs- 
by) Chandler. Reared in Virginia, Mr. 
Chandler attended a private school at 
Fancy Hill, until he was fourteen years of 
age, and then entered Washington and Lee 
University, of Lexington, Va. He was 
graduated when eighteen years of age from 
that institution with the degree of bachelor 
of arts, and for some time thereafter taught 
school in West Virginia. He then engaged 
in the mercandise business at Parkersburg, 



W. Va., and later was in business at Savan- 
nah, Ga., and Jacksonville, Fla., until 1876, 
when he came to St. Louis. For eleven 
years after his coming to this city he was 
identified with the grain trade, but at the 
end of that time he entered the employ of 
the Mississippi Valley Trust Company, 
which had just been organized. In 1894 he 
was elected secretary of the corporation and 
has held that office, becoming well known 
to the public in that capacity. Residence 
address, 5716 Gates avenue, St. Louis. Mis- 
souri. 



DOUGLAS G. COOK. 

Douglas G. Cook. Manufacturer. Born 
in Chicago, 111., June 3, 1847, son of Isaac 
and Harriet (Norton) Cook. The early 
years of his life were passed in his native 
town where he obtained his public school 
education. Later he took an academic 
course in the Christian Brothers' College at 
Notre Dame, Ind. Returning home, he then 
entered the employ of the American Wine 
Company as a shipping clerk, being advanced 
from one position to another as he familiar- 
ized himself with the trade. Entering 
heartily into the spirit of the enterprise, Mr. 
Cook contributed his full share toward the 
upbuilding of what may be truthfully said 
to be the most noted wine manufactory 
in the United States. In connection with 
the manufacture of wines, the Cooks have 
established large vineyards in northern 
Ohio, and, besides growing standard varie- 
ties, developed a variety of grape specially 
adapted to their purpose, which is widely 
known as the "Cook grape." When the elder 
Cook died, in 1886. Douglas G. Cook suc- 
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Wine Company, and still continues to be the 
controlling spirit and executive head of that 
important enterprise. In fraternal circles 
he is well known as a Knight Templar and 
a member of the Order of Elks. He mar- 
ried, in 1877, Miss Carrie S. Dickson of St. 
Louis. Their children are Carrie D., Doug- 
las D. and Ellis W. Cook. Business ad- 
dress, 3015 Cass avenue, St. Louis, Mis- 
souri. 



THOMAS W. EVANS. 

Thomas W. Evans. Cashier Merchants' 
Bank of St. Joseph, Mo., was born in 
Guernsey county, Ohio, in 1843, ^'''d was 
there reared to manhood, receiving his edu- 
cational training in the public schools. At 
the age of eighteen years, in 1861, he en- 
listed in Company B, 15th Regiment, Ohio 
Volunteer Infantry, and served as a private 
four years and four months, being in the 
4th Army Corps at the time of his dis- 
charge at San Antonio, Tex., at the close of 
the war. He returned to his home in Ohio 
and remained until 1867, when he went west 
to Plattsmouth, Neb. There he engaged in 
the banking business with Tootle, Hanna & 
Clark, which organized the First National 
Bank of that city. Mr. Evans served as as- 
sistant cashier until the spring of 1874, 
when he came to St. Joseph and entered the 
First National Bank in the same capacity. 
In 1880 he succeeded Mr. Yates as cashier 
of the Merchants' Bank, and served effi- 
ciently as such until 1887, when the stock of 
this bank changed hands. In July, 1890, he 
was again called to the office of cashier of 
the Merchants Bank of St. Joseph, the duties 
of which office he has faithfully and satis- 
factorily discharged since. 



Mr. Evans was joined in marriage with 
Mary C. Venable, a daughter of Joseph 
Venable, who had resided in St. Joseph 
prior to 1861, but who was living in Mem- 
phis, Tenn., at the time of his death by yel- 
low fever in 1878. 

In politics our subject has always been 
a Republican, and from 1882 to 1884 served 
as treasurer of the city of St. Joseph. He 
is a member of Custer Post No. 7, G. A. R., 
of which he is past commander, and is past 
senior vice-department commander of Mis- 
souri. Religiously, he is a member of the 
First Presbyterian Church, of which he is 
an elder. Business address, Merchants' 
Bank, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



JOHN DONOVAN FLINT. 

John Donovan Flint, cashier of the 
Buell Manufacturing Company, of St. Jo- 
seph, was bom in Buchanan county, Mis- 
souri, September 18, 1845, and is a son of 
Dr. William P. and Sarah Emeline (Don- 
ovan) Flint. 

John D. Flint, the immediate subject of 
this sketch, was educated in the private 
schools of St. Joseph and in a college at 
Chillicothe, Mo. 

The greater part of his business life has 
been passed in association with large con- 
cerns and few men have had a more honor- 
able connection. In 1863 he became the 
cashier of the Southern Bank of the State of 
Missouri, at Savannah, of which George 
Warren Samuels was then president, and in 
1864 he went with Lemon, Hosea & Com- 
pany, of St. Joseph, in the capacity of book- 
keeper and subsequently became a partner 
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Mr. Flint then became one of the partners 
of the notion and dry goods house of Hosea, 
Fhnt & Kemper and from 1872 until 1876 
he was closely associated with this business. 
In the latter year he entered upon his duties 
as cashier of the Buell Manufacturing Com- 
pany, a position of responsibility he held 
until 1883 when he resigned it to accept the 
position of paying teller and director of the 
Saxton National Bank. He continued with 
this financial concern until 1894, when the 
consolidation of this concern with the 
Schuster-Hax National Bank brought about 
his resignation. During the subsequent two 
years, Mr. Flint served as deputy county 
collector, but since 1899 he has most 
efficiently filled his old position as cashier of 
the Buell Manufacturing Company. 

On May 10, 1870, Mr. Flint was united 
in marriage with Mary Anna Bell, a daugh- 
ter of William Bell, Jr., of St. Joseph, and 
their two surviving children are: Grace B., 
who married Frank J. Moss, of St. Joseph, 
and has one daughter, Mary Frances ; and 
William P. Mrs. Flint is a member of the 
Protestant Episcopal Church. 

Mr. Flint has long been very prominent 
in fraternal circles. He was made a Mason 
in Zeredatha Lodge, No. 189, A. F. and 
A. M., and is now a member of Charity 
Lodge, No. 331, A. F. & A. M., of which 
he is a charter member and which he served 
as master in 1888. 

In 1 89 1 he was high priest of St. Jo- 
seph Chapter, No. 14, R. A. M. He has 
been illustrious master of St. Joseph Coun- 
cil No. 9. In 1892 he was eminent com- 
mander of St. Joseph Commandery, No. 4, 
K. T. 

He is also a member of Moila Temple, 
A. A. O. N. M. S. He belongs also to Po- 
cahontas Tribe No. 10, Improved Order of 



Red Men, of which he is past sachem and 
has been past grand sachem of the order for 
the state of Missouri. Residence address, 
1 01 1 Faraon, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



HUGH McINDOE. 



Hugh Mclndoe. Lawyer. Born in Wau- 
sau. Wis., July 24, 1863. His father was 
a native of Scotland, and his mother was 
born and raised in Missouri. His grand- 
father, Thomas A. Beatty, was born near 
St. Charles, Mo., in 181 1. Educated in the 
Wausau public schools, at Cornell College, 
Mt. Vernon, Iowa, B. S. 1886, Northwestern 
University Law School, class 1891. During 
his vacations he worked in the lumber camps 
and sawmills of northern Wisconsin, in vari- 
ous capacities for the purpose of securing 
funds to aid in the expense of his education. 
After his graduation from Cornell College 
he served four years as principal of the pub- 
lic schools of his native town. He held this 
pcjsition until 1890 when he resigned to de- 
vote his entire time to the study of law, which 
had occupied his spare moments during the 
period of teaching. He engaged in the prac- 
tice of law in Chicago, and soon gained a 
lucrative practice. In 1894 he engaged in 
mining in Chitwood Hollow, near Joplin, 
and shortly thereafter remo\-ed with his fam- 
ily to Joplin, personally supervising differ- 
ent mining enterprises in which he became 
interested. He was prominently identified 
with the formation of the Missouri and Kan- 
sas Zinc Miners' Association, and at a time 
when many of the leading mine operators in 
the district held aloof from such an organ- 
ization from fear of the smelter combine. 
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the Zinc Association during the period of its 
greatest efficiency when the association saved 
milHons of dollars to the mining district. 

In 1902 Mr. Mclndoe was nominated by 
the Republicans for the office of state sena- 
tor and elected by a good majority for a four 
year term ending January, 1907. He has 
devoted deep study to the government of 
large cities, and under his leadership was 
brought about the repeal of the infamous 
Nesbit election law. He is the author of the 
bills prohibiting the sale of cocoaine in Mis- 
souri, and creating a normal school district 
for southwest Missouri. During the fa- 
mous senatorial deadlock of 1905 Senator 
Mclndoe was chairman of the Republican 
safety committee, and he was also the rank- 
ing Republican member of the senate inves- 
tigating committee which inquired into the 
sources of party campaign funds. He is 
vice-president of the Carnegie Library board, 
and is a member of the charter committee 
appointed by the Commercial Club to pre- 
pare a new charter for the city of Joplin. 

In 1886 Mr. Mclndoe was married to 
Bessie Morin, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and 
has three children, James, Hugh and Cath- 
erine. He is engaged in the practice of law, 
being a member of the law firm of Mclndoe 
& Thurman. Business address, Joplin, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM GODDIN BOYD. 

William Goddin Boyd. Ex-president of 
the Merchants' Exchange, of St. Louis, 
born June 22, 1853, in Richmond, Ky., son 
of William W. and Sophie (Goddin) Boyd. 
He was reared at his native town, attending 
the public and private schools of that city, 
and later Transylvania University. Quit- 
ai 



ting school when he was fifteen years of age 
he worked for a time in his father's dry 
goods store, and then became bookkeeper 
and cashier for the grocery firm of Clark 
& Bro., of Lexington. In 1874 became con- 
nected with the wholesale dry goods trade as 
entry clerk for the firm of Appleton, Lan- 
caster & Duff, of Lexington, later a sales- 
man. In 1876 he entered the internal rev- 
enue service of the government under Hon. 
A. M. Swope, then collector at Lexington 
for the Seventh District of Kentucky. First 
served as a clerk in the collector's office, but 
was soon made a deputy collector. After 
four years a vacancy occurred in the chief 
deputyship, and he was promoted to that 
position. In October, 1882, he resigned and 
came to St. Louis to accept the position of 
cashier with the grain commission house of 
D. R. Francis & Bro. He retained this po- 
sition until it was succeeded by the D. R. 
Francis & Bro. Commission Co., in 1883; 
he then became treasurer of this corporation 
and remained as such until July i, 1901, 
when he withdrew from the firm to become 
vice-president and treasurer of the Brown 
Bond & Stock Co. In January, 1892. he 
was elected a director of the Merchants' Ex- 
change of St. Louis, and the year following 
was elected first vice-president of that body. 
Soon after the election, the president of the 
corporation died and a special election was 
held to fill the vacancy and Mr. Boyd was 
chosen to the presidency to serve out the 
remainder of the term. In 1894 was again 
elected director of the exchange, and served 
two years. He is a member of the Repub- 
lican party. Is a staunch churchman of the 
Presbyterian faith. He is a member of the 
Masonic order, affiliating with Tuscan 
Lodge No. 360; Missouri Chapter No. i, 
of Royal Arch Masons, and Ascalon Com- 



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mandery No. 16, of Knights Templar. Is 
past regent of Delmar Council of the Royal 
Arcanum, member of the Legion of Honor, 
and an ex-director of the Western Travel- 
ers' Association. In March, 1895, he was 
elected a director of the Mercantile Club, 
and in 1897 was elected president of that 
club. Was for three years a vice-president 
of the Business Men's League of St. Louis, 
and was a member of the board of managers 
of the Missouri Society of the Sons of the 
Revolution. He married December 15, 
1875, Miss Hallie Francis, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. John B. Francis, and sister of ex- 
Governor David R. Francis. She died De- 
cember I, 1893, leaving three children — 
Eliza R., Sydney F. and Sophie Rebecca 
Boyd. November 17, 1897, he married Mrs. 
Slaughter Bassett, of Georgetown, Ky. At 
present he is vice-president and treasurer of 
the Brown Bond & Stock Co., St. Louis. 
Business address, 325 Locust street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



RALPH HIRSCH. 



Ralph Hirsch. Wholesale clothing mer- 
chant. Born December 25, 1867, in New 
Orleans, La. Son of Aaron and Amelia 
(Blochman) Hirsch. He acquired a col- 
lege education in the State of Arkansas. He 
is a member of the firm of Singer & Hirsch, 
composed of Louis B. Singer, and Ralph 
Hirsch, wholesale clothing business. He lo- 
cated in St. Louis, Mo., in 1883 from the 
State of Arkansas. He was in the mercan- 
tile business in Arkansas and fire insurance 
business ; was special agent of the Union 
Casualty & Accident Company, of St. Louis, 
for Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and 



Texas ; also Oklahoma and Indian Terri- 
tory. Then was with the firm of Rice-Stix 
& Co., where he remained ten years, and in 
1903 went into the wholesale clothing busi- 
ness under the firm name of Singer & 
Hirsch Co. He is Jewish in religious be- 
lief. In politics a Democrat. Business ad- 
dress 1 009- 10- 1 1 Washington avenue; 
residence 4041-a McPherson avenue. 



HENRY P. STEWART. 

Henry P. Stewart. Member of the 
Stewart-Peck Sand Company, and member 
of the Board of Police Commissioners of 
Kansas City, Mo., was born in East Hart- 
ford, Conn., September 2^. 1858. He was 
educated at the public schools and at Chris- 
tian Brothers' College, and at the age of 
nineteen years located in Kansas City and 
engaged in the coal and wood business, in 
which he previously had secured valuable 
interests. He made great improvements 
from the start, introduced new and modern 
ideas and expanded the business and scope 
greatly. The old pontoon bridges were 
superseded by the more modern bucket 
dredges and they in turn by the steam 
dredges and the centrifugal pumps. In 
1897 he formed a partnership with Frank 
Peck, under the firm name of Steward-Peck 
Sand Company, having their own cars, 
switch properties, steamboats, dredges and 
yards, ilr. Stewart takes much interest in 
politics, being a member of the Democratic 
party. In 1888 and again in 1890 he was 
elected to the city council from the Seventh 
ward, but resigned to make a race for mar- 
shal. He was elected to this office in 1890 
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has devoted himself to his business interests, 
except that he was recently induced to ac- 
cept the position of police commissioner. He 
is among the leaders of thought and action 
in Kansas City. Business address, 401 
Kemper building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FRANCIS WILLIAM ROER. 

Francis William Roer. County Clerk of 
Cole county, was born in Jefferson City, Au- 
gust 31, 1859, his early education being in 
the schools of his native city, and later at- 
tended the celebrated school at Muenster, 
Germany. From the latter school he re- 
turned in 1874, to Jefferson City and was 
engaged for twelve years with Mr. H. Bock- 
rath, now president of the Bockrath Shoe 
Co., as a grocer's clerk, after which he en- 
gaged in the business of life and fire insur- 
ance in partnership with his father under the 
firm name of Francis Roer & Son, until the 
death of the former in 1888, since which 
time he has continued the business on his 
own account. He was city collector one 
term, 1889-1890, and served as a member of 
the city council. While city collector he 
was elected county clerk in 1889, to which 
office he has been re-elected a second time, 
his present term being the third. He was 
married June 3, 1891, to Aliss Annie A., 
daughter of Herman Tihen of this city. 
There have been born to this union five chil- 
dren, four girls and one son, whose inter- 
esting presence adds much to the pleasure of 
this home. 

Mr. Roer is a fine specimen of physical 
manhood, a good business man and citizen. 
The appreciation of his sterling qualities by 



the citizens of Cole county is attested by his 
continued re-election to the important posi- 
tion he holds. He is a member of Jefferson 
City lodge No. 513, Order of Elks, member 
of St. Peter's Benevolent Society and St. 
Peter's Branch No. 2214, C. K. of A. ; a 
Catholic in his religious belief. He is a 
director in the Capital City Building & 
Loan Association ; vice-president Cole Coun- 
ty Democrat Printing Company; repre- 
sents ten leading fire insurance compa- 
nies and also the Germania Life Insur- 
ance Company of New York since 1865; 
city councilman Fourth ward, 1887 and 
1888. Business address County Court 
House; residence 231 W. High street, Jef- 
ferson City, Missouri. 



ARTHUR H. GALE. 

Arthur H. Gale. Merchant. Born in St. 
Louis, September 3, 1852, son of Daniel B. 
and Caroline (Pattengill) Gale. Mr. Gale 
may be considered fortunate in his birth, for 
he was not only born to ample means and 
high social position, but he inherited a name 
which he may well esteem above either of 
these. His father before him was a success- 
ful merchant, whose high probity gave to 
his simple word the binding force of State 
statute, and whose name for a generation, 
on the street, at the Exchange, in banks, 
and in business centers, meant everything 
that business men set high value upon. 
Arthur H. Gale received the first part of his 
education in the public schools of his native 
city, and afterward attended Washington 
University until he was eighteen years of 
age, when he entered upon the course of 



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training, as an employe in the large whole- 
sale grocery house of Greely & Gale, which 
was to prepare him to become the worthy 
successor of his father and to assume the 
high position in business circles which he 
subsequently attained. The Scudder-Gale 
Grocer Company of 1898 traces back in di- 
rect line to the original firm of Greely & 
Gale of 1838, and if there is anything in a 
clear and untarnished pedigree in business 
succession, this company may be awarded 
the double honor of two of the most distin- 
guished mercantile names in St. Louis. And 
it is cause for congratulation that the Gale 
line will probably be continued in the suc- 
cession in the person of Leone Caryll Gale, 
eldest son of the subject of this sketch. He 
was born in his grandfather's old home, 
1 63 1 Lucas Place. December 29, 1876, 
reared in St. Louis, educated at Washing- 
ton University, and in 1897 taken into the 
establishment. When the war with Spain 
broke out in the spring of the following year 
Leone, fired with patriotic ardor, volun- 
teered as a private in the army, and was 
afterward appointed sergeant-major of the 
First Missouri Volunteer Infantry. Arthur 
H. Gale, in his more than twenty-seven 
years of active business in St. Louis, has ex- 
hibited the qualities which extend the com- 
merce and maintain the prosperity of a great 
city. Mr. Gale was married in 1876 to Miss 
Stella Honey, native born in Missouri, like 
her husband, and a niece of the wife of 
Governor Fletcher. She is the proud and 
happy mother of four children, who, in ad- 
dition to bearing the name of Gale and the 
estimable qualities it represents, inherit from 
their mother a high intelligence and virtues 
that qualify for social influence and useful- 
ness. The four children, named in the or- 



der of their age, are, Leone, Arthur H.. 
Jr., Grace and Margaret Gale. Business ad- 
dress, 714 Spruce, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM VINEYARD. 

William Vineyard. Real estate operator. 
Born January 15, 1835, in Green county, 
Ky. He is of Virginia ancestry, his grand- 
parents removing from Virginia to Ken- 
tucky when their son John W. was but a 
child. The latter named married Nancy G. 
Owens of Green county, Kentucky, daugh- 
ter of Hon. Nathaniel Owens. The pair 
removed to Illinois where Mr. Vineyard 
laid out the town of Warsaw. In 1837 they 
located in Platte county, Missouri. Mr. 
Vineyard being one of the early pioneers of 
that region and taking a great interest in 
educational matters. He was practically 
the founder of Pleasant Ridge College, as he 
furnished the money to his brother. Prof. 
B. W. Vineyard, in order to found the col- 
lege of which Prof. Vine3'ard was its first 
president and was a ripe scholar and an ac- 
complished teacher. In 1837 John W. 
Vineyard removed to Texas where he died. 
William, the eldest of his thirteen children, 
was but two years old when he was brought 
to Missouri. He worked on the home farm 
and attended the neighborhood schools until 
he was about seventeen years old, when he 
entered Pleasant Ridge College, where he 
took a through course in English and Latin. 
March 12, 1858, he married Miss Emma 
Evans, daughter of William B. Evans, a 
man noted for his honor and integrity, and 
a member of the original town company of 
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the great advantage of location determined 
on this city as his future abode, and soon 
after he was married he laid off the first 
addition made to the original town compris- 
ing this portion of the present city lying 
south of Seventeenth street, between Har- 
rison and Holmes. He has also laid out 
other extensive additions and has been one 
of the up-builders of the city. For twelve 
years past he has been connected with the 
Union National Bank of Kansas City as a 
stockholder and director. Nine children 
have been born of whom two are deceased, 
seven are living, four sons and three daugh- 
ters. Business address. Union National 
Bank building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



ARTHUR J. KING. 



Arthur J. King, of the King Realty 
Company, of Kansas City, Mo., was born, 
reared and educated in Elyria, Lorain 
county, O., his birth occurring April 23, 
1858. Upon reaching manhood he engaged 
in the mercantile business and continued in 
the same and as traveling salesman until 
1886, when he came to Kansas City and en- 
gaged in the real estate and loan business, 
meeting with much success. In 1890 the 
present firm — the King Realty Company — 
was founded, and has done a large business 
down to the present time. They make a 
specialty of acre property, buying the land, 
platting it into lots, improving the plats with 
buildings and other properties, and selling 
the same. They have incidentially done a 
great deal to build up the suburbs of this 
city. One of their latest deals was to buy 
the Ackerman Garden, plat it, erect about 
one hundred and twenty-eight houses of 



modern architecture ranging in price from 
three thousand, five hundred dollars to eight 
thousand dollars. They have just purchased 
a tract adjoining his tract on the east, em- 
bracing six thousand feet, called Euclid 
Grove, which is now being platted and pre- 
pared for market. On this tract they ex- 
pect to build one hundred and fifty modern 
houses, many of which are now in course of 
construction. Mr. King devotes his atten- 
tion to the business with excellent results. 
Mr. King is a member of the Central Pres- 
byterian Church. He was married to Stella 
Cunningham of Elyria, O., January i, 
1882. They have Helen, just graduated 
from the high school of the city ; Nina, just 
graduated from the ward school ; and son 
Myron in the public schools. Mr. King's 
residence is one of the finest on Linwood 
boulevard, where he has all the appoint- 
ments of an elegant home. Residence ad- 
dress, 1705 Linwood boulevard, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



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JAMES J. SWOFFORD. 

James J. Swofiford. Merchant. Born 
August 25, 1852, in Franklin county, Illi- 
nois. Son of James and Malinda Jane 
(Dixon) Swofford. Educated in the com- 
mon schools of Franklin county, Illinois, 
at thirteen years of age he began as wage 
earner on a farm. Spent four years as clerk 
in a general store; in 1878 engaged in the 
mercantile business on his own account in 
Shawneetown, which he continued for ten 
years, when he removed to Kansas City in 
1887: together with his brothers he pur- 
chased the stock of the William B. Grimes 
Dry Goods Company, and established the 



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present firm of Swofford Bros. Dry Goods 
Company. Since 1892 Mr. Swofford has 
been a director in the National Bank of 
Commerce of Kansas City; in jNIay, 1900, 
Governor Stephens appointed him one of 
the vice-presidents to represent Missouri at 
the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo in 
1901 ; promoter of various enterprises in 
Kansas City; he was elected in 1899 chair- 
man of a committee on Ways and Means to 
inaugurate and push an effort to bring the 
national convention of the Democratic party 
to Kansas City in 1900, which proved suc- 
cessful. Politically Mr. Swofford is a Dem- 
ocrat; is an officer in the Central Presby- 
terian Church, Kansas City, director in the 
Young Men's Christian Association, direc- 
tor in the Provident Association and a di- 
rector in the Commercial Club ; as a Mason 
he is a member of Kansas City lodge No. 
220, Kansas City Chapter, Kansas City 
Commandery No. 10, Knights Templar, and 
Ararat Temple, Nobles of the Mystic 
Shrine. Married October 2, 1877, to Miss 
Faylima R. Powell. Three children born, 
Ralph, Helen and James J., Jr. Residence, 
220 Garfield avenue; office. Eighth and 
Broadway. 



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ERNST A. HILDENBRANDT. 

Ernst A. Hildenbrandt. Real estate and 
financial agent. Born December 17, 1863, 
in St. Louis, Missouri. Son of Theoaore and 
Lina (Decker) Hildenbrandt. Education ac- 
quired in the St. Louis public and high 
schools. He is a member of the real estate 
firm, Hildenbrandt & Noble, composed of 
Ernst A. Hildenbrandt and Philip S. Noble. 
Established June i, 1897. The firm does an 
extensive business in real estate and loans. 



Mr. Hildebrandt, in politics, is a Republi- 
can and is a member of Unity Church, St. 
Louis. He is a member of the Mercantile 
Club, Glen Echo, Country Club. Business 
address, 623 Chestnut street; residence ad- 
dress, 2909 Allen avenue. 



JOHN CUTTER GAGE. 

John Cutter Gage. Born April 20, 1835, 
at Pelham, N. H. Son of Frye and Keziah 
(Cutter) Gage, both natives of New Hamp- 
shire. John Cutter spent his boyhood on 
his father's farm in New England. He ac- 
quired his education in the Phillip Academy 
at Andover, Mass. In 1852 he entered 
Dartmouth College, leaving there in 1854. 
In 1855 entered Harvard University, grad- 
uating in 1856; read law with S. A. Brown 
at Lowell, Mass; admitted to the bar in 
Boston in 1858; 1858 came west, admitted 
to the practice in St. Louis, and the follow- 
ing March came to Kansas City, Mo., where 
he located permanently, and is one of the 
oldest attorneys of the Kansas City bar. His 
career since the date of his location has 
been a very active one. He began practice 
in the profession alone but since then has 
been associated in partnership with the fol- 
lowing gentlemen : Messrs. W. C. Wood- 
son, William Douglas, Sanford B. Ladd 
and Charles E. Small. In politics he is a 
Democrat. In 1883 elected to the lower 
house of the Legislature. He is a member 
of the State Bar Association and in 18S4 
was president. He contributed worthy his- 
torical articles on the bar of Jackson county, 
and on Willard P. Hall and the Bench and 
Bar of the State of Missouri. He was mar- 
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daughter of Dr. Elijah Bailey of Marion 
county, Missouri. Two children born, 
John Bailey and Marion Mansur Gage. 
Business address, 605 New York Life build- 
ing, Kansas City, Missouri. 



GEORGE D. BERRY. 

George D. Berry, one of the leading 
men of St. Joseph, president of the Berry 
Foundry & Manufacturing Company, and 
president of the Berry Electric & Manufac- 
turning Company, was born January 28, 
1868, in Collin county, Texas, and is a son 
of George D. and Elizabeth C. (Dysart) 
Berry. 

George D. Berry was educated in the 
schools of St. Joseph, and after completing 
his education entered the employ of the St. 
Joseph & Grand Island Railway Company, 
with which he worked his way up from the 
bottom to the position of purchasing agent 
and assistant to the general manager. He 
remained with this corporation until July, 
1900, when he resigned and remained un- 
connected with any firm, busily arranging 
for the organization of enterprises of his 
own. In January, 1902, his plans were 
brought to completion by the organization 
and incorporation of the Berry Foundry & 
Manufacturing Company. Mr. Berry be- 
came the president of this business, the only 
one of its kind in St. Joseph. It makes a 
specialty of the manufacture of architectural 
iron and railroad work and gives employ- 
ment to over one hundred men. 

Mr. Berry married Annie M. Roberts, 
who is a daughter of Thomas C. Roberts 
of St. Joseph, and they have one son, Edwin 
Carlisle. Mr. Berry is identified with tbe 



Democratic party and has been active in 
civic affairs ever since young manhood. He 
was a member of the city council from 1896 
to 1898, and has worked hard for the wel- 
fare and advancement of the city in every 
direction. He belongs to the Monroe and 
Benton clubs, and to Lodge No. 40 of the 
Elks. As a Mason, he is a member of Char- 
ity Lodge, No. 331, A. F. & A. M. ; Mitchell 
Chapter, No. 89, R. A. M. ; Hugh Payens 
Commandery, No. 51, K. T. ; and Moila 
Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. Residence ad- 
dress 521 N. Seventh street, St. Joseph, 
Missouri. 



REV. WILLIAM RAY DOBYNS, D. D. 

Rev. William Ray Dobyns, D. D., pas- 
tor of the First Presbyterian Church, of St. 
Joseph, was born May 17, 1861, at Colum- 
bus, Johnson county, Missouri, and is a son 
of Dr. Benjamin F. and Margaret Ruth 
(Morrow) Dobyns. 

The Dobyns family on one side is of 
French Huguenot and on the other of 
Scotch-Irish descent, and the name has been 
one of distinction in many States of the 
Union for a long period. 

William Ray Dobyns was primarily ed- 
ucated in the common schools of Johnson 
county, and then entered Marshall Acad- 
emy, which was then under the charge of 
that able educator. Prof. George B. New- 
ton. At this academy have been trained 
more men who have taken prominent posi- 
tions in after life than in any other similar 
educational institution of this part of the 
State. From the academic shades of Mar- 
shall, Mr. Dobyns went to Austin, Texas, 
being variously engaged as a telegraph 
messenger, as a clerk in a dry goods store, 



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as a traveling representative of a wagon 
house and as a herder of cattle. For two 
years he was engaged in the study of med- 
icine but never matriculated. He had come 
under the powerful preaching of his uncle, 
Rev. Joshua Barbee, and had been con- 
verted to the reality of religious truth. At 
the same time he experienced the call to en- 
ter the ministry, but he combated this as 
long as possible, but in September. 1883, he 
entered Westminster College, at Fulton. 
Missouri, and began the serious study of 
theolog)'. In 1886 he entered McCormick 
Theological Seminary, Chicago, where he 
was graduated in 1889, with the degree of 
B. D. His twenty-eighth birthday was 
made memorable as on that day he was or- 
dained to the ministry, and at that time was 
installed as pastor of Emmamiel Presbyte- 
rian Church, at Chicago. This was a mis- 
sion that he had founded during his sem- 
inary life and his installation as pastor was 
gratifying both to himself and the congrega- 
tion. He remained there until 1891. Dur- 
ing this time he also acted as financial sec- 
retary of Westminster College. As his 
health had become impaired, it was thought 
best to make a change. 

From Chicago Rev. Mr. Dobyns then 
went to Marshall, Mo., where he remained 
until December, 1899, when he accepted the 
call to his present pastorate. His work 
here has been congenial and fruitful. In 
recognition of his scholarship and piety, 
Westminster conferred upon him the de- 
gree of D. D. and he is counted one of the 
representative graduates of that great col- 
lege of theology. 

On July 19, 1889, Dr. Dobyns was mar- 
ried to Mary T. Buckland, who is a daugh- 
ter of Hon. Thomas A. Buckland. of St. 
Louis. One little daughter named Mar- 



garet Ruth, died aged eleven months. Po- 
litically, Dr. Dobyns is an old-time Dem- 
ocrat. He has traveled extensively, and 
was the representative of the State of Mis- 
souri, in the Eighth Council of the Alliance 
of Presbyterian Churches throughout the 
world, which met at Liverpool, England, 
June 28 to July 9, 1904, inclusive. 

During the past few months, he has 
made a visit to Eg>-pt and Palestine, and to 
all the countries of Europe except Austria, 
Russia and Spain. Dr. Dobyns is a man of 
winning manner and possesses that gift of 
spiritual awakening that, far beyond his 
scholarship, proves the value of his calling. 
He preaches of the value of character, truth, 
honor, love and righteousness and his heart 
has been warmed to see harvests whiten 
where he has sown the seed. Residence ad- 
dress, 707 Jule, St. Joseph. 



EDWIN RUTHVEN CRUTCHER. 

Edwin Ruthven Crutcher. Real estate 
operator. Born August 29, 1853, near 
Nashville, Tenn. Son of William H. and 
Mary Trevilian (Baber) Crutcher. The 
Crutcher family came from Wales in 1675 
to Virginia. On the maternal line descended 
from the well known Mayo, Tabb and Tre- 
vilian families, all of whom were prominent 
in social and political history of Virginia. 
Edwin R. C. lived in Louisville, Ky.. from 
childhood, and graduated from the high 
school in that city at the age of six- 
teen. He was assistant sewer engineer in 
Louisville, Ky., when he was seventeen 
years old. At twenty-one years he engaged 
in the corn milling and grain business, de- 
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years into the largest plant in the country 
for the manufacture of corn goods. In 1887 
he left Louisville, Ky., for the west and be- 
came the cashier of the Bank of Columbus 
at Columbus, Kans. Afterwards manager 
of the New York office of the Jarvis Conk- 
ling Mortgage Trust Company in 1889 and 
permanently located in Kansas City, Mo., in 
October, 1891. From 1891 to 1893 he held 
the position of secretary and vice-president 
of the Lombard Investment Company. In 
September, 1893, he joined Mr. James B. 
Welch in organizing the real estate firm of 
Crutcher & Welch. Mr. Crutcher is a mem- 
ber of the Kansas City Commercial Club, 
the Board of Fire Underwriters, and the 
Kansas City Real Estate Exchange. He is 
a sound money Democrat, member of the 
Presbyterian Church, a Scottish Rite Ma- 
son, a member of Albert Pike Lodge, A. F. 
& A. M., a member of the Society of the 
Sons of the Revolution; and of the Society 
of Colonial Wars. He was married to 
!Miss Laura Loving, daughter of Judge 
William V. Loving, a distinguished jurist 
of the State of Kentucky. Residence ad- 
dress, 3448 Troost avenue, Kansas City, 
Missouri. 



JOSEPH SCHULL LOOSE. 

Joseph Schull Loose. Manufacturer of 
crackers and candy. He engaged in the 
business in 1881 and the business has grown 
and expanded so that it is one of the largest 
concerns of the kind west of the Mississippi 
river. Loose-Wiles Cracker and Candy 
Co. is composed of the following individ- 
uals, Joseph S. Loose, president; John H. 
Wiles, vice-president; C. E. Gould, secre- 
tary and manager ; F. B. Houston, assistant 



secretary; incorporated in 1902. He is also 
president of Bliss Syrup Refining Co. and 
a director in tlie First National Bank of 
Kansas City, and in Mexico & Orient Rail- 
road Co. Mr. Loose began his business 
career in a dry goods store in Paxton, 
111. Having attained success in all of his 
business efforts, he also takes a decided in- 
terest in the city he resides in and contrib- 
utes to all worthy enterprises liberally; he 
is a member of the Kansas City Club ; mar- 
ried and has one son, Harry W. Loose; he 
affiliates with the Republican party. Busi- 
ness address, iioo West Eighth street; resi- 
dence address, 1861 Independence boulet- 
vard, Kansas Citv, Missouri. 



THOMAS MARTIN SPOFFORD. 

Thomas Martin Spofford. Born in Pu- 
laski. Tenn., February 18, 1863. Father, 
Henry Martin Spofford. of New Orleans, 
for many years judge of the Supreme Court 
of Louisiana and elected senator from that 
State, but died while his seat was being con- 
tested. His mother was Ophelia (Martin) 
Spofford, of Pulaski, Tenn. Thomas M. 
Spofford was graduated in the law depart- 
ment of Columbia College, New York; 
afterwards removed to Kansas City, Mo., in 
1895, served in the Legislature in 1897, 
was chairman of the Appropriation Com- 
mittee and member of several other com- 
mittees ; was elected president of the Upper 
House ; was chairman of the Board of Pub- 
lic Works in the Kansas City, Mo., election 
of 1900, but resigned from this office in 
the fall of 1901, on account of ill health. 
Mr. Spofford is a nephew of Ainsworth R. 
Spofford, Librarian of Congress, and was 



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married in 1898 to Miss Bebe Wood, daugh- 
ter of Ben Wood, a pioneer merchant of 
Kansas City. Residence address, 2454 The 
Paseo, Kansas City, Missouri. 



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N. BURMEISTER. 

N. Burmeister, secretary and treasurer 
Hofmann Bros.' Produce Co. Born August 
19, 1843, i" Rehna, Mecklinberg-Schwerin, 
Germany. Married May 2"^, 1871, in St. 
Louis, Mo., to Miss Annie Hassendeubel. 
Children: Louis, Derman, Adolph, Henry, 
Emily, Meta, Helen, Adele. July, 1866, he 
engaged with the Hofmann Bros.' Produce 
Co. as secretary and treasurer. The firm 
of Hofmann Bros. Produce Co. is composed 
of E. G. Hofmann, president; F. W. Hof- 
mann, vice-president ; N. Burmeister, sec- 
retary and treasurer. Mr. Burmeister was 
educated in the private schools in Rehna, 
Mecklinberg-Schwerin, and the Gross- 
heimsch Schule in Lubeck, Germany. In 
religious belief he is a Lutheran. Business 
address, 700-702 N. Second street; resi- 
, dence address, 1304 Hickory street. 



HENRY CORWIN FLOWER. 

Henry Corwin Flower. President of the 
Fidelity Trust Company. Born at Mount 
Vernon, Ind., August 15, i860. Son of 
Richard Flower and Rebecca McArthur 
Flower. Educated at the University of 
Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Graduated 
1885; was married to Lida Carr December 
18, 1895, at Durham, N. C. Of this mar- 
riage two children were born, Henry Cor- 



win Flower, Jr., and Ruth Flower. Politics, 
Democrat; religion, Unitarian. A member 
of the Commercial Club, Kansas City Club, 
Country Club, Elm Ridge Club, and Hunt 
and Polo Club. Came to Kansas City Au- 
gust, 1885; was admitted to the bar 1885; 
practiced his profession as a lawyer to July 
I, 1899, when he was elected president of the 
Fidelity Trust Company. He still retains his 
partnership in law with the firm of Hower, 
Peters & Bowersock. He is also president 
of the Durham Hosiery Mills, Durham, 
N. C. ; president of the Tombigbee Lumber 
Company of Fairford, Ala; vice-president 
and treasurer of the Lombard Liquidation 
Company of Boston, Mass. Business ad- 
dress, Fidelity Trust Company; residence, 
3200 Main street. 



WILLL\M CALVIN BOWMAN. 

William Calvin Bowman. Wholesale 
lumber dealer. Born August 13, 1857, in 
Ladiesburg. Md. Son of William Henry 
and J\Iary Ann (Hyder) Bowman. Edu- 
cated in the public schools of Ladiesburg, 
Md. After deriving his early education, 
1879 engaged in the lumber business with 
the White Lake Lumber Company in Ox- 
ford, Neb., as yard manager; 1880 engaged 
in the lumber business at Odebolt, la. As- 
sociated with his two brothers under the 
firm name of S. H. Bowman Lumber Com- 
pany, of which he is now vice-president of 
this company, and the general offices located 
at Minneapolis. Minn.; 1880 to 1890 con- 
ducted a branch business of the firm in Ida 
Grove. la.; May. 1890. moved to Fort 
Worth Tex., and conducted the business of 
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a wholesale lumber business in Fort Worth, 
Tex. The retail business is still carried on 
in Texas under the name of W. C. Bowman 
Company, and now manager of the same. 
March, 1900, moved to Kansas City, Mo., 
and organized the Bowman-Hicks Lumber 
Company with general offices in Kansas 
City, and mills in Louisiana, and has been 
president and general manager of this com- 
pany ever since it was organized. In poli- 
tics Mr. Bowman is a Republican. On the 
29th day of May, 1884 at Ida Grove, la., he 
was married to Miss Catherine Helen John- 
son. One child has been born, Robert H. 
Bowman. Business address, 506 Dwight 
building; residence address, 2902 Harrison 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



CHURCHILL G. BRIDGEFORD. 

Churchill G. Bridgeford, of Kansas 
City, Mo., president of the Kansas City 
Live Stock Exchange, was born in Mis- 
souri, Paris, Monroe county, being the 
place of his birth. He was educated at Rens- 
selaer, Mo., but upon the completion of his 
education he returned to Monroe county and 
engaged in handling fine cattle and horses 
and in shipping stock to market. In 1880 
he went to Chicago and was with the firm of 
R. Strahan & Company, live stock dealers 
at the stock yards, for some time. During 
the time he was thus engaged he became 
familiar with the live stock interests of the 
country, and laid the foundation of his fu- 
ture usefulness in that important industry. 
In 1886 he went to Kansas City and en- 
gaged in the live stock commission business, 
and has thus continued ever since, with con- 
stantly growing reputation in that line as 



one of the most successful and skillful oper- 
ators in the west. In 1903 he was elected 
president of the Kansas City Live Stock Ex- 
change and was re-elected in 1904 without 
opposition. Mr. Bridgeford has not found 
time to engage in the game of politics, but 
takes a deep interest in the public welfare 
and the upbuilding of Kansas City. He is 
one of the originators and organizers of the 
Kansas City Horse Show, and has been one 
of its directors and a member of its execu- 
tive committee since the commencement. He 
is a member of the Kansas City Driving 
Club and of the Elm Ridge Jockey Club. 
He is regarded as one of the strongest fac- 
tors in the live stock interests of the west, 
and is one of the reliable business men of 
this metropoHs of the Mississippi valley. 
Business address. Live Stock Exchange, 
Sixteenth and Bell, Kansas City, Missouri. 



JOHN ALBUS, Jr. 

John Albus, Jr., collector of customs for 
the St. Joseph port of entry is a well-known 
citizen of St. Joseph, where he has lived 
nearly his entire life. He was born at 
Leavenworth, Kans., October 4, i860, and 
is a son of John and Elizabeth (Kessler) 
Albus. 

John Albus, Jr., was nearly three years 
of age when his parents removed from his 
native place to St. Joseph, and here he has 
since lived, receiving his education in the 
public schools. For a number of years he 
engaged in the wholesale and retail station- 
ery business. He was very successful and 
followed that line of business until March 
I, 1903, when he was appointed collector of 
customs for the St. Joseph port of entry, 



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succeeding W. L. Buechle. He has taken 
an active interest in politics for twenty-four 
years, and is recognized as one of the Re- 
pubhcan party leaders in St. Joseph. From 
1 89 1 to 1896 he served creditably as a mem- 
ber of the Board of Education. Mr. Albus 
was united in marriage with a daughter of 
Louis Hanssen, of Davenport, la., and they 
are the parents of three children. They 
reside at No. 728 North Twenty-second 
street, where they have a very comfortable 
home. Fraternally Mr. Albus is a member 
of Charity Lodge, No. 331, A. F. & A. M. ; 
Mitchell Chapter, No. 89, R. A. M. ; St. 
Joseph Lodge, No. 40, B. P. O. E. ; Wood- 
men of the World ; Knights of Pythias ; and 
Royal Arcanum. The family belong to the 
First Christian Church. Business address, 
Postoffice building; residence address, 728 
N. Twenty-second street, St. Joseph, Mis- 
souri. 



Children born: Harry F., Leila D., Julia 
A. and Hayward Brown. Business address, 
517-19 N. Second street; residence address, 
5715 Maple avenue, St. Louis. 



J. BACHMAN BROWN. 

J. Bachman Brown. Vice-president 
Roth-Homeyer Coffee Co. Born March 8. 
1863, in Lancaster, S. C. Son of Geo. H. 
and Ellen L. (Murray) Brown. .Educated 
in the public and high schools of Atlanta, 
Ga. His maternal great-grandfather was in 
the Revolutionary war. January i, 1899, he 
organized the present firm of Roth-Ho- 
meyer Coffee Co., incorporated, and at 
that time, became its vice-president. The 
firm is composed of Frederick Roth, J. 
Bachman Brown. H. A. Homeyer, Richard 
Kail. He began his business career first as 
bundle boy, then collector, and salesman, 
and remained in this calling until he entered 
the above firm. Married February i, 1882. 
at Carterville, Ga., to jMiss Julia G. Francis. 



JOSEPH M. HAYES. 

Joseph M. Hayes. President Joseph M. 
Hayes Woolen Co. Manufacturer. Born 
February 17, 1846, in Cincinnati, O. When 
he was five years of age his parents removed 
to Illinois and later established their home 
in Peoria. There Joseph M. Hayes at- 
tended the public schools, studied at Fay's 
Academy and afterward completed his edu- 
cation at a commercial college in Chicago, 
where his studies included commercial law. 
By inheritance and thorough judicious 
training, he had, to begin life with, steady 
habits and a disposition toward the practice 
of sensible economy and a portion of his 
early earnings was regularly laid aside for 
investment. Fortunate investments in real es- 
tate soon increased his capital to such an ex- 
tent that, when he was twenty-four years of 
age, he was able to begin business on his own 
account. In January of 1871 he began busi- 
ness in Chicago, and had gotten his enter- 
prise fairly under way when the great fire 
of that year totally destroyed it, for the time 
being. Notwithstanding this misfortune he 
at once made preparations to resume busi- 
ness, and the firm of which he was a mem- 
ber paid all its obligations, but was left with 
little capital upon which to operate. The 
year following the firm was a trying one in 
Chicago, and toward the close of 1872 Mr. 
Hayes determined to remove to St. Louis. 
Here he embarked in the sale of woolen 
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ties to contend with in the beginning he suc- 
ceeded in the course of two or three years in 
getting his business estabhshed on a firm 
basis, and since then it has been one of the 
prosperous commercial institutions of the 
city. For the purpose of interesting some 
of his faithful employes with him he incor- 
porated the Joseph M. Hayes Woolen Com- 
pany, in 1886, and he has ever since been 
president and executive head of this cor- 
poration. His house is an extensive im- 
porter and jobber of woolens and of every- 
thing required in the manufacture of men's 
clothing, and is one of the most widely 
known houses of its kind in the United 
States, its trade extending throughout the 
middle, western, northwestern and south- 
western States. Besides being one of the 
eminently successful commercial houses in 
St. Louis, this house is one which enjoys an 
enviable reputation for honesty, integrity 
and correct business methods. In both bus- 
iness and private life Mr. Hayes has won the 
esteem of all with whom he has come in con- 
tact, and his career has been in all respects 
an eminently creditable one. Residence ad- 
dress, 4389 Lindell boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JOHN CHARLES LEBRECHT. 

John Charles Lebrecht, physician, was 
born July 28, 1859, son of Dr. John and 
Louisa (Ludwig) Lebrecht. He inherited 
a fondness for the science of medicine, his 
father having been a distinguished member 
of this profession in St. Louis, and his ma- 
ternal grandfather, Dr. Valentine Ludwig, 
having also been an eminent practitioner in 
this city. After completing a classical 
course of study at St. Louis University, Dr. 



John C. Lebrecht began fitting himself for 
the profession of which his father and 
grandfadier had been honored members, 
and to which the bent of his intellect had in- 
clined him from childhood up. Matriculat- 
ing at St. Louis Medical College, he at- 
tended the regular course of lectures at that 
institution and was graduated in the class 
of 1882. Immediately after his graduation 
he began his professional career in this city, 
and, within a few years, built up a large 
practice, becoming especially noted for his 
successful treatment of diseases of women 
and children. Well equipped by nature and 
education for his chosen calling, he has be- 
longed also to that progressive class of 
physicians who continue all their lives to be 
students, and he has allowed none of the 
developments of medical science to pass un- 
noticed. The best literature of the profes- 
sion has found a place in his library, and 
keeping in touch with the organized move- 
ments to elevate the practice of medicine to 
the highest possible plane and to improve 
the attainments of practicing physicians, he 
has been an active and useful member of 
the St. Louis Medical and Mississippi Val- 
ley Medical Societies. Outside of his pro- 
fession he is known to a wide circle of ac- 
quaintances as a man of artistic tastes and 
an enthusiastic lover of outdoor sports. His 
chief recreation from the strain of profes- 
sional labors is found in the spring and 
autumn of each year in more or less pro- 
tracted outings in the wilds of Arkansas 
and southeast Missouri, where he devotes 
himself to hunting and fishing with all the 
zest of a true sportsman. A lover of music, 
he holds membership in several St. Louis 
singing societies, and he is also a member 
of the Turners' Society, a Knight Templar, 
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Shrine, the Ancient Order of United Work- 
men, and the Knights of Pythias. He is 
inedical director of the organization of Sons 
of Veterans in Missouri, and holds the rank 
of Heutenant-colonel of the First Regiment. 
Pohtically he is identified with the Repub- 
lican party, and has at times taken an ac- 
ti\-e part in pohtical campaigns. Office, 900 
S. Fourth street; residence, 1737 S. Grand 
avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HERMAN AUGUST HOMEYER. 

Flerman August Homeyer, secretary 
and treasurer of the Roth-Homeyer Coffee 
Co., born January 26, i860 in Lemgo, Ger- 
many. Son of Herman August and Louisa 
(Bodeker) Homeyer. Educated in high 
school of Lemgo, Germany. In 1874 he 
began his business career as an apprentice 
in the grocery business in Dusseldorf, Ger- 
many, then as bookkeeper in tobacco fac- 
tory, Bielfeld ; then after leaving the Father- 
land for America he located in St. Louis, 
and on August 11, 1884, accepted a position 
as bookkeeper in a wholesale grocery house. 
From 1889 to 1890 he was in the cof- 
fee business with Steinwender-Stoffregen 
Coffee Co., as secretary. In 1899 the pres- 
ent business was started with a capital of 
$25,000.00. which has steadily grown and 
employs to-day some fifty people with a cap- 
ital of $80,000. Originally the trade was 
confined to St. Louis ; it now extends over a 
large territory east, including Illinois and 
south to Texas and north to Iowa. The 
Roth-Homeyer Coffee Co. was incorporated 
January 23, 1900. Mr. Homeyer is inde- 
pendent in politics, a Protestant in religious 
belief, and a member of the Royal Arcanum. 



He was married October 2, i88g, in St. 
Louis to Miss Anna Charlotte Schlatter. 
They have one daughter, Louise. Business 
address, 517-519 X. Second street. 



EUGENE BUDER. 



Eugene Buder. Lawyer. Born Septem- 
ber 9, 1 87 1, in St. Louis, Mo. Son of An- 
ton and Apolonia Buder. Education ac- 
quired in St. Louis high school, and in 
1896-98 attended St. Louis Law School. 
He began his career first in the ice machine 
business and was afterwards bookkeeper 
and salesman in a music store. In 1898, 
admitted to the bar in St. Louis and has 
practiced his profession ever since. He is a 
member of the Ethical Society. Business 
address, 511 Roe building; residence ad- 
dress, 3321 Shenandoah avenue. 



GEORGE WILLIAM CALL. 

George \\'illiam Cale, chairman of the 
Southwestern Tariff Committee, is a native 
of St. Louis. He was born in August, 1844. 
His father was William, and his mother 
Evelyn Cale. He received his early educa- 
tion in the public schools of this city, and 
took a course of bookkeeping at Jones' Com- 
mercial College. He began his business 
career as messenger boy in the office of the 
Blue Line Fast Freight Company, which is 
still in operation here. Afterwards he found 
employment in the office of the Star Union 
Line, which was managed at that time in 
St. Louis by the well-known Nathan Ste- 
vens. He made steady progress in all subor- 



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dinate capacities, and was finally promoted 
to the office of chief clerk. From this place 
he passed into the office of the White Line 
Express Company, which ran on the Paci- 
fic Railroad, under the administrations of 
George R. Taylor, D. R. Garrison, William 
M. A'IcPherson, and other presidents of the 
road. He afterwards served in the general 
office of the Pacific Railroad Company, at 
the corner of Sixth and Olive streets, being 
chief cletrk of the general freight depart- 
ment. When the road was leased to the old 
Atlantic & Pacific Company, with Andrew 
Pierce as president, he withdrew from the 
service and conducted an agency of pooled 
eastern freight lines. The pool lasted about 
six months, and when it was dissolved Mr. 
Cale established a general freight agency, 
under the style of Cale & Hudson, at Second 
and Olive streets, where, for two or three 
years the firm did a large and prosperous 
business. When the Iron Mountain & 
Southern Railway was purchased by Mr. 
Jay Gould and consolidated with the Mis- 
souri Pacific, Mr. Cale was made assistant 
general freight agent of the Missouri 
Pacific, and continued in that service until 
he was offered the general freight agency of 
the "Frisco" road, December 5, 1882, by 
Vice-President and General Manager C. W. 
Rogers. He received one more promotion' 
from the "Frisco" Company management, 
to his present position of general freight and 
traffic manager. This is an admirable rec- 
ord for so young a man as Mr. Cale. He 
has come right up from the foot of the lad- 
der, serving in all intermediate places and 
capacities, gradually fitting himself for 
higher duties, and by his faithful service rec- 
ommending himself for promotion. His re- 
wards have come surely and rapidly. His 
ability is always commensurate with the de- 



mands made upon him, and he is to be much 
congratulated on his successful career. 

Mr. Cale was married, in 1886, to Miss 
Matilda L. Carvell, of St. Louis, and has a 
family of nine living children. Business ad- 
dress, 122 North Seventh street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JOHN H. TIMMERMAN. 

John H. Timmerman, secretary of the 
St. Louis Iron & Machine Works, is a na- 
tive of St. Louis, where he was born in 1849. 
He was also educated in his native city, 
after which he learned the trade of pattern 
maker, which he followed for some years, 
still having charge of the pattern shop of the 
company. He was married in St. Louis, in 
1873, ^n*^ li^s a family. He has never en- 
tered politics, but has continuously devoted 
himself to business, remaining with his 
father's firm until the organization of the 
present company. Residence address, 3803 
Castleman avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM F. NOLKER. 

William F. Nolker. Manufacturer. 
Born December 6, 1840, at Osnabrueck, 
Province of Hanover, Germany. Son of 
John F. and Anna (Bergman) Nolker. He 
received a good education in private schools, 
and, when sixteen years of age, came to this 
country, landing in the city of Baltimore, 
Md., in the year 1857. After spending a 
short time there, came west as far as Cin- 
cinnati, and obtained his first employment 
in that city at the Western Hotel, which 
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After that he -was for a time general utility 
man in a restaurant; later a conductor on a 
street railroad. Was then appointed mes- 
senger in the banking house of Fallis, 
Young & Co., now the Merchants' Na- 
tional Bank, of Cincinnati. Here he re- 
mained until 1863. After leaving the bank 
he became cashier in the wholesale hardware 
store of E. G. Leonard & Co. During the 
time he was employed here saw three 
months' service in the Civil war as a volun- 
teer soldier in the One Hundred and Thirty- 
seventh Regiment of Ohio Infantry. In 
1865 he was made general manager of the 
Vulcan Manufacturing Company, estab- 
lished by William H. Shoenberger, of Cin- 
cinnati, which position he occupied until 
1867, when Mr. Shoenberger retired, leav- 
ing him in full control of the business which 
they had established. Thereafter he con- 
tinued this business until 1873, when he 
established his home and business in St. 
Louis, and became interested as a partner in 
the brewery plant which had been previ- 
ously operated by Brinckwirth & Griesedeck, 
and which then became known as Brinck- 
wirth, Griesedieck & Nolker, and later as 
Brinckwirth & Nolker. In 1882 succeeded 
by the Brinckwirth-Nolker Company, incor- 
porated under the laws of the state, with 
Mr. Nolker as its president. This corpora- 
tion conducted a profitable business in the 
manufacture of beer until 1889, when, in 
connection with other St. Louis breweries, 
it was merged into the St. Louis Brewing 
Association, the largest corporation of its 
kind in the world. Retaining a large inter- 
est in the business, Mr. Nolker has smce 
been officially identified with it as treasurer. 
He is a director of the German-American 
Bank, a director and member of the execu- J 
tive committee of the Mississippi Valley * 



Trust Company, president of the Gilsonite 
Roofing & Paving Company, vice-president 
of the Gilson Asphaltum Company, vice- 
president of the Lithosite Manufacturing 
Company, and also an officer and director in 
many other corporations, occupying a posi- 
tion among the foremost business men of St. 
Louis. 

Mr. Nolker married, June 5, 1873, Miss 
Louisa Brinckwirth, of this city. The chil- 
dren born of their union were Frederick, 
Laura, William and Robert Nolker. Busi- 
ness address, Cass avenue and Eighteenth 
street ; residence address, 4504 Linden bou- 
levard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN LEWIS HOWARD. 

John Lewis Howard. Architect. Born 
August 17, 1867, in Saline county, Mo. Son 
of John C. and Mary L. (Lewis) Howard. 
He was educated in the public schools of his 
native state. His ancestors were among the 
early settlers of Virginia, and were engaged 
in the Indian wars, the War of 18 12, and 
in the Confederate army. 

The business career of John Lewis How- 
ard began in 1890, he previously having 
equipped himself in actual practice and ex- 
perience so necessary in his future profes- 
sion. He served an apprenticeship at the 
carpenter trade, was a superintendent of con- 
struction, took up and pursued the study of 
architecture and familiarized himself with 
the best authorities bearing on his profes- 
sion. He has successfully built up a large 
and lucrative business in a period approxi- 
mating fifteen years, and since that time his 
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their patronage upon him. He has designed 
and planned the following buildings: Ste- 
phens Opera House, Boonville, Mo. ; Colum- 
bia Transfer Warehouse Company, St. 
Louis; and a number of opera houses, resi- 
dences, etc., throughout the country. He 
also made the plans and details of the Bra- 
zil Pavilion at the Louisiana Purchase Ex- 
position, and the fire brigade headquarters 
at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Mr. Howard is a member of the Archi- 
tectural Club and the Missouri Athletic 
Club. In religious belief he is an Episco- 
palian, and Democratic in politics. Business 
address, 620 Chestnut street; residence ad- 
dress, 3818 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



FREDERICK ERNEST NEWBERY. 

Frederick Ernest Newbery. Electrical 
engineer and contractor. Born November 
10, 1864, in England. Son of Frederick 
and Jane Day Newbery. Acquired his edu- 
cation in the Bedford school, England, and 
in the Finsburg Technical College, London, 
England. Graduated in 1884 in the latter 
institution. He came to St. Louis in 1898, 
and he brought with him a large and varied 
experience in practical electrical engineering 
derived in England. Highly educated in all 
technical branches that pertain to this busi- 
ness. In appreciation of his talent and abil- 
ity he has built up a large and lucrative busi- 
ness in St. Louis as an engineer and con- 
tractor. The faithful performance of every 
trust and his superior attainments and 
thorough familiarity with all the details in 
the broad fields of electrical engineering has 
brought him more than his share of the 
public patronage. He has been connected 
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with the Patterson & Cooper Electric 
Works, London England; installation of 
electric plants in England and on the conti- 
nent; Thompson-Houston Electric Com- 
pany; L. K. Comstock Company. He is a 
member of the Glen Echo Club, St. Louis, 
Mo. ; Columbia Club ; Missouri Athletic 
Club. In religious belief he is an Episcopa- 
lian. Business address, 642 Century build- 
ing; residence address, Buckingham Club, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY NICOLAUS. 

Henry Nicolaus. Manufacturer. Born 
August 14, 185 1, in Gommersheim, in the 
Province of Pfalz, Germany, son of Gott- 
fried and Caroline Nicolaus. Was educated 
in the public and polytechnic schools of Ger- 
many, and at an early age began serving an 
apprenticeship to the brewing business. In 
1867 he came to the United States, establish- 
ing his home in St. Louis. Began work for 
the old time malsters, Becker & Hoppe, by 
whom he was employed for a year. After 
that he was employed at the National Brew- 
ery, and by E. Anheuser & Company, until 
1872, when he returned to Europe to per- 
fect himself in the art of manufacturing 
beer. Returning to the United States at the 
end of this course of training, he stopped 
at Cincinnati, Ohio, and for three years 
thereafter he was malster and brewer at the 
famous Meuhlhaeuser Brewery of that city. 
In 1875 went to Keokuk, Iowa, as foreman 
in the brewing establishment of Leisy & 
Bro., until 1897, when he came to St. Louis 
and became connected with the Fuerbacher 
& Schlossstein Brewery. A year later, ac- 
companied with the gentlemen identified 



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•with this enterprise, he formed tlie Green 
Tree Brewing Company, of which he be- 
came superintendent. In 1892 this plant 
was transferred to the St. Louis Brewing 
Association, and Mr. Nicolaus became as- 
sistant manager of the Green Tree Brewery 
for the new corporation. In 1892 was made 
manager of the brewery and a director of 
the St. Lewis Brewing Association, which 
position he has since filled. Is also a mem- 
ber of the St. Louis board of managers of 
this great manufacturing corporation. He 
is vice-president of the Southern Electric 
Railroad, a director of the Mechanics' Bank, 
a director of the National Railway Com- 
pany, a director of the Suburban Railway 
Company, and a director of the Hammer 
Dry Plate Manufacturing Company. He 
is a member of the Merchants' Exchange, 
and occupies a prominent position among 
the enterprising business men of St. Louis. 
Politically he affiliates with the Democratic 
party. He is a member of all the leading 
German societies; also of the Union Club, 
the St. Louis Club, and the Jockey Club. 

April 26, 1883, Mr. Nicolaus married 
Miss Mary Uhrig, of St. Louis, who died 
April 6, 1899. Their children are Stella C, 
Louis J. and Elsa K. Nicolaus. Business 
address, 702 Wainwright building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



EDWARD BATES WOLFF. 

Edward Bates Wolff was born in St. 
Louis, September 6, 1856, and received his 
education in St. Louis, and subsequently 
began the study of law. He received his 
diploma in 1880, and began practice. He 
afterwards entered the real estate office of 



his father, where his services in unraveling 
the intricacies constantly commg up in real 
estate transactions were of great value. He 
continued with the real estate company until 
his father's death, when the business de- 
volved upon him and his brother George. 
Ed. Wolff is highly esteemed in real estate 
circles. He is vice-president of the National 
Real Estate Association, and a member of 
the legislative committee of that body. He 
is a member of the St. Louis, Mercantile, 
Jockey and Noon-Day clubs, and also of the 
Legion of Honor. He was married Octo- 
ber 7, 1887, to Miss G. Yourtee, of Cincin- 
nati, Ohio. Business address, 722 Chestnut 
street; residence address, 5899 Easton ave- 
nue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. LUCIEN CLAUDE McELWEE. 

Dr. Lucien Claude McElwee is the son 
of John James and Laura Goodman McEl- 
wee. He was born March 26, 1862, near 
Mount Gilead, in Kentucky. Shortly after 
his birth his parents moved to Missouri. 
The early education of the embryo physician 
was obtained in the country schools of Lin- 
coln and Pike counties, this state. In Octo- 
ber, 1878, at the age of si.xteen, he began 
teaching in the neighborhood w-here he had 
formerly been a pupil. His school was situ- 
ated near Olney, in Lincoln county. He ter- 
minated his career as a schoolmaster in the 
fall of the following year, when he entered 
upon a three-years' course of study in the 
Missouri Medical College. Graduating from 
this institution March 2, 1882, he began the 
practice of medicine at Chain of Rocks, Lin- 
coln county, and continued for five years, 
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post-graduate course in the Homeopathic 
Medical College of Missouri, and a year 
later won from this institution the degree of 
ad eundem. In August, 1887, he resigned 
his practice at Chain of Rocks and came to 
St. Louis to enter upon the duties of resident 
physician of the Children's Hospital. This 
position he held until March 15, 1888, when 
he again resumed practice. 

In March, 1888, he was called by the 
faculty of the Homeopathic Medical Col- 
lege to fill the chair of professor of physiol- 
ogy. This he held until September, 1891, 
when he was elected professor of clinical 
medicine and physical diagnosis, and also 
chosen registrar of the college and elected 
member of the board of trustees of the same 
institution. Dr. McEhvee has also filled the 
highly honorable office of secretary and 
treasurer of the Homeopathic Medical So- 
ciety of St. Louis, serving a three-years' 
term, to which he was elected by his associ- 
ate members without contest and sponta- 
neously. Besides the eminent position Dr. 
McElwee holds in tliis city in a professional 
way, he is provisional secretary of the Mis- 
souri Institute of Homoeopathies and is hon- 
orary member of the board of trustees of the 
Philadelphia Post-Graduate School of Hom- 
ceopathics. 

When the First Regiment, National 
Guard of Missouri, was re-organized and 
mustered into service in 1887, Dr. McElwee 
was on Company E's (Rainwater Rifles) 
Toll as private. The next year he was pro- 
moted to sixth corporal ; worked up during 
the next two years to second sergeant, being 
the only "non-com." in the regiment, passing 
a perfect examination in tactics before re- 
ceiving his sergeant's warrant. In Septem- 
ber, 1890, he was elected second lieutenant 
of his company, and served nearly two years 



in that capacity, until his professional en- 
gagements became so numerous that he re- 
luctantly resigned the position so well 
earned and highly prized. "Business before 
pleasure" is his motto; and since his pro- 
fession is his delight, the pleasure of the 
military life had to be discontinued. 

Following the ways of the world and the 
dictates of Cupid, in November, 1891, Dr. 
McElwee married Miss Hallie A. Barnes, of 
this city, a very accomplished and popular 
lady from the South Side. Though un- 
sought, popular favor was yet further be- 
stowed on the doctor, when at the parish 
meeting, on Easter Monday, 1893, at the 
Episcopal Church of the Redeemer, he was 
elected to the vestry, an honor not often con- 
ferred upon so young a man in a parish full 
of such well-known and influential men as 
that of the Church of the Redeemer. Office 
address, 1221 Grand avenue, St. Louis, 

Missouri. 

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CHARLES BEATIE McCORMACK. 

Charles Beatie McCormack, contractor, 
was early fitted by practical experience and 
his surroundings to embark successfully in 
the business of a contractor and builder. 
His father, Samuel C. McCormack, was 
early identified with the erection of some of 
St. Louis' most notable edifices, through 
which the boy formed many valuable im- 
pressions. During this period he attended 
the public schools, paying especial attention 
to those studies which were to aid him in the 
mastery of his chosen calling. In 1880 
young Mr. McCormack was admitted to a 
partnership in his father's business, which 
was continued with growing success until 
1884, when, in March, the elder McCormack 



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died, leaving the son and junior partner in 
sole charge of the business. His pronounced 
ability and thorough understanding of the 
task in hand were readily asserted, and with 
industry anil application he rapidly advanced 
the splendid business to which he had fallen 
heir. Like his father before him, his atten- 
tion was chiefly directed to residence build- 
ings, and along the beautiful Lindell boule- 
vard, famed for its at once attractive and 
ideal homes, can be seen the fruits of Mr. 
McCormack's craft. Others of St. Louis' 
stately and fashionable thoroughfares are 
likewise studded with his w-ork. 

Mr. McCormack was born September 
28, 1857, and was married December 15, 
1885, to Miss Marie DuBois. His ottke is 
at 105 North Eighth street. His business is 
large and lucrative, embracing everything 
pertaining to building. Mr. McCormack is 
widely known, held in the highest esteem by 
the community, and is personally popular. 
Business address, 80-81 Kohen building; 
residence address, 4522 Westminster Place, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



ALFRED J. POOR. 

Alfred J. Poor was born September 18, 
1853, at Andover, Maine, son of Elbridge 
and Susannah (Stevens) Poor, both natives 
of that state. Alfred J. was a farmer boy, 
educated in the common schools of his native 
state, and without any of the advantages 
conferred upon him by wealth, he began his 
career "with the stock in trade" of industry, 
pluck and perseverance. How far he suc- 
ceeded in the accomplishment of his life 
work we will attempt, in this sketch, to 
briefly relate. In 1873 1^^ visited the state 



of Kansas and located at Chapman, then a 
thrifty and small village, and at once ac- 
quired a knowledge of telegraphy, a busi- 
ness, however, he did not continue long. 
From a small beginning, in the grain and 
elevator business in Chapman, Kans., he 
has owned and operated individually some 
thirty elevators, mostly on the line of the 
L'nion Pacific Railroad, twenty-two of which 
he disposed of last year (1904). In 1887 
he organized the Bank of Chapman, Kans., 
and became the sole individual owner^ 
which he has operated ever since. In 1892 
organized the Rosedale State Bank, and be- 
came its president, which official position he 
now occupies. In 1895 he removed to Kan- 
sas City, Mo., where since that time he has 
conducted and operated a large and exten- 
sive grain business, in the Board of Trade 
building in Kansas City, and superintends 
from this point the large system of grain 
elevators which he has erected in the state 
of Kansas, amounting in grain transactions 
to over a million dollars annually. He is a 
director in the Traders' Bank of Kansas 
City, Mo., and the M. K. & T. R. R. His 
disposition to treat his fellow men squarely 
and honestly in all of his public and private 
transactions has been one of the prominent 
traits that has commanded the confidence of 
so many that he has been associated with, in 
a business way, and has characterized his 
entire career up to the present time. His 
knowledge and familiarity with financial 
matters is that his opinion and judgment is 
regarded as always trustworthy. He is in- 
timately acquainted with all features of the 
banking business, as well as the extensive 
grain business he operates and controls. He 
has confined himself strictly to his business, 
thus far the diversions in other lines having 
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hiin finds him to be a congenial and compan- 
ionable gentleman, and public spirited in 
bringing about and aiding all worthy pro- 
jects for the good of the city he resides in. 
He is a member of the Congregational 
Church, and of the Modern Woodmen of 
America. 

Mr. Poor was married on the 25th of 
December, 1882, to Miss Josephine Graham, 
of Chapman, Kansas. Three children have 
been born: Herbert E., Henry V. and Eva 
May. Business address, 516 Board of Trade 
building; residdice address, 1000 Park, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



ADOLPHUS SCHLOSSSTEIN. 

Adolphus Schlossstein, physician, was 
born in Albisheim, Bavaria, January 27, 
1 84 1, son of John and Fredericka (Lauer) 
Schlossstein. After receiving a classical ed- 
ucation in the gymnasium at Zweibruecken, 
he spent five j'ears in the completion of a 
university course of study, attending suc- 
cessfully the universities of Erlangen, Heid- 
elberg and Wuerzburg. At the end of this 
thorough course of scholastic training and 
prdijaration for a professional career, and 
after he had received his doctor's degree, he 
continued his studies and researches in the 
field of medical science at the hospitals of 
Munich and Frankenthal, Rhenish, Bavaria, 
for another year, and then entered the Ger- 
man army as a surgeon, and was on active 
duty in field hospitals from June, 1866, to 
the fall of the same year. After visiting 
and inspecting the hospitals of Vienna, Ber- 
lin, Prague, and other cities, he then came 
to the United States, and, late in the year 
1867, established his home and began the 



practice of his profession in St. Louis. Here 
he soon built up a large and lucrative prac- 
tice, and for many years has occupied a place 
among the most thoroughly well educated 
and highly accomplished physicians of the 
city. Progressive in his nature and methods 
he has kept abreast of the latest develop- 
ments of medical science, broadening his 
knowledge of professional work, both by 
careful study of medical literature and the 
observations made through extensive trav- 
els. In 1875 he revisited Europe for the 
purpose of making a series of investigations 
in the line of his professional work, and in 
1886 spent some time in Cuba for observa- 
tion and pleasure. In 1896 he spent the year 
in extensive travel through Germany, Italy. 
France and the British Isles. Eminently 
successful as a medical practitioner, he has 
been hardly less conspicuous as an able and 
sagacious business man. Becoming identi- 
fied with his brother, the late George 
Schlossstein, in the manufacture of window 
glass, he has aided in building up a flourish- 
ing glass manufacturing industry, and is 
now president of the French Window Glass 
Manufacturing Company of Missouri, a 
corporation doing business in St. Louis, and 
also of the Dunkirk Window Glass Com- 
pany, which operates a large manufacturing 
plant at Dunkirk, Ind. He is identified pro- 
fessionally with the St. Louis Medical 
Society and the Society of German Physi- 
cians, and socially with the Liederkranz and 
other societies, and is known in both profes- 
sional and social circles as a man of numer- 
ous and varied accomplishments. 

Dr. Schlossstein has been twice married 
— first, in 1 87 1, to Miss Bertha Schaeffer, 
daughter of Nicholas Schaeffer, a well 
known soap manufacturer of St. Louis. The 
first Mrs. Schlossstein died in 1873, ^"^ '" 



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1875 Dr. Schlossstein married Miss Caro- 
line Schaeffer, a sister of his first wife. Adol- 
phus G. Schlossstein, a son born of his first 
marriage, who graduated from the St. Louis 
Medical College, completed his medical ed- 
ucation in Vienna, after having studied at 
Heidelberg, Munich and Berlin. Office ad- 
dress. South Broadway; residence address, 
3153 Longfellow boulevard, St. Louis, Mis- 
souri. 



DR. JOHN O'FALLON DELANY. 

Dr. John O' Fallon Delany. He is a na- 
tive of St. Louis and was born December 
16, 1842. His father was Dr. Dennis De- 
lany, a well known physician ; and his 
mother was Ottavia Mullanphy, of the old 
family of that name, the members of which, 
in the early annals of St. Louis, are found to 
have been so closely identified with the 
founding and progress of the young city. 
His grandfather was John Mullanphy, the 
great St. Louis philanthropist. Born and 
reared with all the advantages of good fam- 
ily and great wealth, the subject of this 
sketch early in life manifested a studious 
disposition, and having received all possible 
advantages from the schools of this city and 
this country, went abroad to qualify himself 
in the modern languages, and to derive that 
complete knowledge of men and things 
which comes from much travel and the 
close observation of the manners and cus- 
toms of foreign people. Returning to this 
country, Mr. Delany decided to adopt his 
father's profession, and at once entered the 
medical department of Columbia College, in 
New York, where, after a most creditable 
course, he graduated as physician and sur- 



geon. He afterwards joined the American 
Medical Association and Medico-Chirurgi- 
cal Society. Having no need to practice 
medicine for its emoluments, Dr. Delany 
has contented himself with further travel 
and study, and the cultivation from year to 
year of those social delights which, by reason 
of his fortune and family and his many ac- 
complishments, he found so easy of attain- 
ment in this his native city. He has joined 
many social organizations, and is a favorite 
member at the clubs. His bachelor life, 
however, was terminated June 23, 1891, 
when he was married to Miss Elizabeth 
Sloan, of St. Louis. Office address, 825 
Chestnut street ; residence address, 2900 La- 
fayette avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



WILLL\M E. GRAVES. 

William E. Graves. Wholesale commis- 
sion merchant. Born September 25, 1874, 
in Morristown, Tenn. Son of J. F. and 
Mary (Carriger) Graves. Educated in the 
high school, and graduating in the year of 
J 89 1, and two years in the Carson & New- 
man College. He is president of the Graves 
China Company, which firm was established 
in November, 1902, and incorporated Octo- 
ber, 1904. They are wholesale commission 
dealers in china, glass, and fancy goods. 
Their business has steadily increased from 
the beginning up to the present time. The 
second year they had thirty-three and one- 
third per cent increase in business. Mr. 
Graves is a member of the Missouri Ath- 
letic Club; in religion he is a Methodist, and 
Democratic in politics. Married. May 22. 
1900, in Nashville, Tenn., to Miss Mary 



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Yandell Kelly. Business address, 623 Wash- 
ington avenue; residence address, 4947 
Washington avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN GENTLES. 

John Gentles. Dry goods merchant. 
Born November i, 1846, in Scotland. Son 
of John and Margaret (Dobbie) Gentles. 
His education was acquired in Scotland. He 
located in St. Louis, Mo., in 1870, and be- 
came a member of the firm of Penny & Gen- 
tles, which was established in the year 1873. 
Since the organization of this firm, he has 
given the business his entire attention, and 
brought with him an extensive experience 
in the same line from the old country, which 
has served him well in the firm established 
in this country, and is so well known to the 
people of St. Louis. Their annual sales 
amount to large sums, and is considered a 
popular mercantile institution. He is a 
member of the Presbyterian Church. Out- 
side of business matters, he is much inter- 
ested in works of art. He is a member of 
the Missouri Art Club, and he affiliates with 
the Republican party. Was married in St. 
Louis, Mo., to Miriam Hunt. Children: 
James, Olive, Edgar, Howard, Marion and 
Dorothy. 



DR. PINCKNEY FRENCH. 

Dr. Pinckney French, second vice-presi- 
dent and treasurer of the Missouri Trust 
Company, and vice-president of the Vande- 
venter Bank, is a native of Audrain county, 
Mo., where he was born on May 10, 1852, 
the son of Isaac C. and Malinda M. French. 



His early education was acquired in the 
ordinary schools of the neighborhood of his 
birth. Deciding to make the profession of 
medicine his occupation for life, after he 
had by close application acquired a good 
English education, he entered upon a course 
of study under Drs. W. H. Lee and John 
S. Potts, both leading physicians of Audrain 
county. Following his course of reading he 
matriculated at Miami Medical College, of 
Cincinnati, from which he graduated in 
1873. After graduating the doctor located 
in his native town, Mexico, Mo., where his 
high attainments and superior abilities at 
once became recognized and he rapidly built 
up a large practice, which he held with in- 
creasing success and reputation. He was 
soon appointed surgeon of the Chicago & 
Alton and of the Wabash railroads, the 
former of which positions he held until July, 
1 89 1, when he resigned to give his entire 
attention to other duties. In 1879 Dr. 
French was elected president of the Medical 
Society of Audrain county. The next year 
he was appointed a member of the board of 
medical e.xaniiners of the department of 
medicine of the Missouri State University, 
which he held for several years. He was 
elected first vice-president of the Missouri 
State Medical Association in 1882, and was 
professor of surgical anatomy in the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, of Chicago, 
111., during 1882 and 1883, resigning to re- 
sume his general practice. He was during 
this time associate editor of the surgical de- 
partment of the Western Medical and Sur- 
gical Reporter, of Chicago. In 1885 he 
went to Europe, where he visited the 
hospitals of renown, observed and studied 
the branches of surgery and gained a wide 
knowledge of approved methods in vogue 
on the continent. Returning to America he 



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c'ecided to locate in St. Louis, where he at 
once became connected with the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, taking a chair 
which he held until 1890. 

About this time the doctor became in- 
terested ill tlie organization of the Marion- 
Sims College of IMedicine, and was elected 
secretary of its first board of directors and of 
its first faculty. He was elected professor 
to the chair of the principles and practice of 
surgery and clinical surgery, which he held 
until the spring of 1892. He was one of the 
founders of the Barnes Medical College, and 
the first secretary of its board of directors. 
In establishing this college he was associated 
with Dr. Hughes and Carpenter. 

The Doctor was married in February, 
1874, to Miss Lucy P. Guisenberry, of 
Boone county, north central Missouri. Office 
address, 705 Olive street ; residence address, 
536 North Vandeventer Place, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



WILLIAM ROY KENDALL. 

William Roy Kendall, consulting elec- 
trical and mechanical engineer. Born in 
Kansas City, Mo., March 5, 1870. Son of 
William Wirt and Emily (Brownell) Ken- 
dall ; graduated from Kansas City Central 
high school. 1888, and from Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology, Boston. Mass., 
1892 ; with the Franklin Electric Company 
of Kansas City, 1892-93: married June 16, 
1898, to Miss Mary A. Bing, of Delaware, 
0.; wife died March 13. 1901 ; member of 
the official board of the Independent avenue 
Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas City, 
Mo. ; president of the Brotherhood of St. 
Paul of the Methodist Church; vice-presi- 
dent of the William W. Kendall B. & S. 



Co., of Kansas City, Mo. in 1894; president 
and treasurer of the Wm. W. Kendall Se- 
curities Company of Kansas City, Mo. ; 
member of the firm of Weeks, Kendall & 
Newlcirk, consulting electrical and mechan- 
ical engineers, 604-607 New Nelson build- 
ing; residence, 1910 Independence avenue, 
Kansas City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM CHARLES WRISBERG. 

William Charles Wrisberg. Mine opera- 
tor. Born November 25, 1848, in the town 
of Ehringhausen, in the landgraviate of 
Hessen. Germany, son of George E. and 
Anna Christina (Mueller) Wrisberg. Mr. 
Wrisberg is one of the self-made business 
men of St. Louis. He was six years old 
when his parents established their home in 
St. Louis and he grew up in the city. His 
limited education was obtained in the public 
schools of St. Louis. At twelve years of 
age he began selling newspapers and other 
literature and was engaged in this business 
throughout the Civil war, following the 
Union armies. By taking good care of his 
earnings, when the war closed, he had ac- 
cumulated capital enough to enable him to 
establish himself in the mercantile business 
in St. Louis. He was thus engaged until 
1884 when he disposed of this business and 
turned his interests to minin_g and in 1876, 
he became identified with the mining enter- 
prises, operating first a coal mine on the 
southern border of what is now Forest 
Park. In 1881, he interested himself in the 
mining of fire clay at Cheltenham and was 
connected with this industry until 1890. In 
1 89 1, he engaged in gold and silver mining 
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that field of enterprise. Since 1890, he has 
also been interested in the lead and zinc 
mining industry of southwest Missouri. At 
the present time he is president of the 
American Gold Mining Company of Ouray, 
Col. ; the Merchants' Gold Mining Com- 
pany of the same place. He is also a direc- 
tor of the Hope Mutual Fire Insurance 
Company of St. Louis and a director of the 
Scantic Gold Mining and Milling Company 
of Colorado. The town of Wrisberg, located 
on Sierre Blanca Mt., Colorado, was named 
after him. Mr. Wrisberg is a staunch Re- 
publican in politics. His religious affilia- 
tions are with the Evangelical Church. May 
15, 1873, he married Miss Katherine W. 
Rehm of St. Louis. Their surviving chil- 
dren are William E., Charles G., Edward 
F., Albert F., Minnie K., Clara C, George 
O., Robert A., and Arthur P. Wrisberg. 
Business, address, 411 Olive street, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



CHARLES ANTON PFEIFFER. 

Charles Anton Pfeififer is president of 
the Pfeiffer Stone Company, which is widely 
known throughout Missouri and adjoining 
States. He was born at Sigmaringen, Hoh- 
enzollern, Germany, December 19, 1844, 
and is a son of Joseph and Aloise (Wald- 
schuetz) Pfeififer. 

Charles A. Pfeiffer was very thoroughly 
educated, attending both German and Eng- 
lish schools wherever the family was located 
during his youth. At St. Joseph he contin- 
ued his education in the night schools and 
completed the commercial course at Bryant 
& Stratton's Business College. From his 
father he learned the trade of stone cutting, 



mastering its every detail and acquiring a 
knowledge that has been of infinite service 
to him in the management of the large com- 
pany of which he is president. This com- 
pany, established by his father in i860, was 
incorporated as the Pfeiffer Stone Company 
in 1 88 1 and our subject was elected presi- 
dent. It has conducted a very extensive 
business and has gained fame as the pro- 
ducer of the widely known Batesville 
Marble. The company's quarries and plant, 
located near Batesville, Ark., on the St. 
Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, 
are on a very large scale and are conducted 
under the superintendency of Otto Pfeiffer, 
son of Charles A. Pfeiffer ; from these quar- 
ries they are supplying the stone for the new 
$2,000,000 State Capitol building at Little 
Rock, Ark. 

In 1864 and 1865 our subject served in 
the Civil war as a member of Company B, 
Eighty-seventh Regiment Missouri Militia, 
under Captain Louis Hax. Soon after com- 
ing to St. Joseph, he became interested in 
politics, the times favoring strong convic- 
tions. As an intelligent, reliable and sub- 
stantial citizen he has been prominently con- 
nected with city affairs. He was corre- 
sponding secretary of the St. Joseph Board 
of Trade in 1871, one of the water commis- 
sioners under Mayor Hosea and the mem- 
ber of a committee to draft a contract with 
the St. Joseph Water Company (which was 
not accepted) under Mayors Shepherd and 
Vories. He is a Republican and served in 
the city council as alderman at large and as 
chairman of the finance committee from 
1890 to 1892. In 1898 he was chosen as 
Republican nominee for mayor and his de- 
feat at the polls by Dr. Kirschner was in no 
sense a personal one, but a political mistake 
caused by a factional quarrel in his party. 



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He has taken a deep interest, in all public 
movements here, has supported educational 
and charitable enterprises and has given his 
means and influence to everything promis- 
ing to be of permanent and substantial ben- 
efit to the city. He was one of the trustees 
of the Hall School, a member of the board 
of directors of the Free Public Library, of 
which he has been secretary and treasurer 
for the past eight years, and has been United 
States jury commissioner during the past 
six years. 

On November 7, 1871, Mr. Pfeiffer 
was married in St. Joseph to Louise Char- 
lotte Koch, who was born in Clinton, La., 
and is a daughter of Gerhardt and Josephine 
Koch. They have seven children. 

Mr. Pfeififer enjoys his fine library, par- 
ticularly its works on practical science, me- 
chanics and political economy, and he keeps 
well abreast of the times in public affairs. 
Like many other of his nationality, he has 
talent and taste in music, was formerly a 
member of the Philharmonia Society, and 
has membership in newer organizations. Re- 
ligiously, he is a consistent Catholic and at- 
tends worship at the Cathedral. Business 
address, St. Joseph, Mo. ; residence address 
1707 S. Twentieth street. 



AUGUST R. MEYER. 

August R. Meyer. President of the 
United Chemical and Zinc Company was 
born in St. Louis in 1851, and at the age of 
fourteen years was sent to Europe for the 
purpose of completing his education, and 
there for the period of about eight years he 
attended the best schools of continental 
Europe, among which were the College of 



Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, and the 
famous school of Mines at Freidburg, Sax- 
ony, from which latter institution he gradu- 
ated in 1872. He completed his education 
at the University of Berlin. Succeeding this 
he made a tour of the principal mining coun- 
tries of Europe, thoroughly investigating 
the science of metallurgy and other practi- 
cal studies which would still further lit him 
for his chosen profession, that of mining 
engineer. In the fall of 1873 he returned to 
St. Louis, and for a while was aigaged in 
examining coal lands in Illinois, but in the 
spring of 1874 he went to Colorado, and 
soon afterwards was given the appointment 
of assayer for the district of Fairplay, which 
position he held until 1875. In that year a 
senior member of the firm of A. R. Meyer 
& Company, he established an ore crushing 
mill at Alma, Col., and remained connected 
with the same until 1881. In the fall of 1887 
he visited the locality of what is now Lead- 
ville, then called "California Gulch," and 
there made careful examination of the min- 
eral deposits. Becoming satisfied of the 
presence of much valuable mineral, he 
bought thirty acres and in conjunction with 
Alvinus B. Wood of Ann Arbor, Mich., and 
George L. Henderson of Ohio, he laid out 
the first lots at Leadvilie, and obtained the 
postoffice. The following year he built the 
first smelting works there; and in 1879, as- 
sociated with Governor Tabor and others, 
he laid out an addition to the city, which 
included Harrison avenue, the most im- 
portant thoroughfare in the place. He re- 
mained there until 1881 and then came to 
Kansas City, where he has since resided. 
Here he has identified himself with many of 
the most important industrial enterprises of 
the city. He was president of the Commer- 
cial Club in 1895-96, and is a member of 



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many other organizations. Business ad- 
dress, Dwight building; residence, Forty- 
fourth, southeast corner Warrick boulevard. 



THEODORE J. A. BENKENDORF. 

Theodore J. A. Benkendorf. President 
of the Benkendorf Brick Company of St. 
Joseph, and one of the large manufacturers 
of Buchanan county, was born at Water- 
town, Wis., June 20, 1866, and is a son of 
August G. and Johanna (Arndt) Benken- 
dorf. 

Our subject, Theodore J. Bendendorf, 
was educated in the public schools of Water- 
town, and was fifteen years old when his pa- 
rents came to St. Joseph. He then took ad- 
vantage of the commercial training afforded 
by the Rittner Business College, and, after 
completing the course was employed in vari- 
ous mercantile establishments until 1891, 
when he entered the employ of the M. K. 
Goetz Brewing Company and remained with 
that firm as bookkeeper, for twelve years. 
In 1903 he went into business for himself, 
organized the Benkendorf Brick Company. 
He bought the old Joe Davis tract of land 
in the north end of the city, where the clay 
supply is almost inexhaustible, and where he 
erected a first-class modern plant with the 
best of facilities for the manufacture of all 
kinds of brick, the specialty being a fancy 
pressed brick. This has grown already into 
one of the leading industries of the city and 
the promise for the future is all that the 
stockholders of the company could desire. 

In addition to this interests here, Mr. 
Bendendorf is one of the stockholders and 
directors in the M. K. Goetz Brewing Com- 
pany and a director in the Goetz Real Estate 



Company. He is a shrewd, careful busi- 
ness man, one whose honorable methods 
have won for him the confidence of the 
public. 

On September 6, 1893, Mr. Benkendorf 
was married to Emma Goetz, daughter of 
M. K. Goetz, of St. Joseph, and they have 
one son, Theodore, Jr. The family attend 
the Zion's Evangelical Church. 

Politically Mr. Benkendorf is active in 
Republican circles. He belongs to the 
Turn-Verein, the Benton and Lotus Clubs, 
and to the Golden Cross lodge. No. 143, 
K. of P. Business address, 215 S. Seventh 
street, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



GEORGE RAPPEEN SMITH. 

If there were no Missouri Pacific rail- 
way there would be no Sedalia; or, if the 
route had run along the Missouri river, as 
was contemplated in one of the two surveys 
made, still there would be no Sedalia, but, 
instead thereof, Boonville, now containing 
less than 5,000 inhabitants, would be a city 
possibly of 50,000 or even 100,000 popula- 
tion. The citizens of Boonville could easily 
have secured the main line. It is common 
tradition that $100,000 would have won 
the great prize, but its vital importance was 
not tiien appreciated by those people. 

Inseparately connected with the history 
of Sedalia is the name of the late General 
Smith, its founder, and a biographical 
sketch of him, however brief, is necessary to 
the proper recital of the founding of this 
beautiful metropolis of Central Missouri. 

George Rappeen Smith (deceased), 
founder of Sedalia, Mo., was born in Pow- 
hatan county, Virginia, August 17, 1804. 



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His father, the Rev. George Smith, a Bap- 
tist minister, soon after the birth of this son, 
moved to and settled in Franklin county, 
Kentucky, where he died in 1820. A Httle 
later the son went to Scott county to reside, 
where he completed his education, became 
deputy sheriff of the county at the age of 
twenty-one and in 1827 took unto himself a 
young wife in the person of Mileta Ann, 
daughter of Gen. David Thompson, of Ken- 
tucky, and sister of Col. Manlius V. Thomp- 
son, commander of the celebrated Third 
Kentucky regiment in the Mexican war. In 
1833 General Smith removed with his fam- 
ily to Pettis county. Missouri, little dream- 
ing of the destiny awaiting him in his 
adopted state. He had studied law, but 
soon abandoned it for other pursuits. From 
1842 to 1852 he held different big mail con- 
tracts; was receiver of public moneys at 
Springfield ; and did government freight- 
ing, under a million dollar contract, from 
Fort Leavenworth to Santa Fe. 

In 1849 t'^c Missouri Pacific railway 
was chartered by the Legislature, and in 
1850 and 1 85 1 a preliminary survey was run 
through Pettis county. Two routes were in 
question — one along the Missouri river; the 
other known as the Inland route, leaving the 
river at Jefferson City and passing through 
the counties of Cole, Moniteau, Cooper, 
Pettis, Johnson, Cass and Jackson. With 
prophetic vision General Smith saw the dan- 
ger to this section should the richer Mis- 
souri river counties secure the road and he 
at once took hold of the herculean task, per- 
sonally canvassed Pettis and other counties 
and secured against almost overwhelming 
opposition the necessary subscription — and 
the Missouri Pacific railway, which made 
possible the present Queen City of the 
Prairies. 



Singularly enough, against the entreat- 
ies of General Smith, Georgetown, then his 
home and the flourishing county seat, let 
slip the golden opportunity for obtaining the 
main line. 

In February, 1856, General Smith pur- 
chased from Absalom McVey, three hun- 
dred and thirty-seven acres of land on the 
present site of Sedalia. The following 
March he purchased from the same gentle- 
man an additional one hundred and sixty-six 
and forty-five hundredths acres. Already he 
owned several hundred acres on this site, 
making his landed possessions amount to 
about one thousand one hundred acres. To 
make these purchases he borrowed the 
money, while he was yet a resident of 
Georgetown. On November 30, 1857, he 
filed for record a plat of the town, which he 
named Sedville, in honor of his daughter, 
who is now Mrs. Sarah E. Cotton, still a 
resident of this city. The name Sedville 
was soon changed to Sedalia. March 15, 
1858, he took into partnership Dr. W. L. 
Felix, who bought one-fourth interest in the 
original town tract. September 4th of this 
same year Smith and Felix had a public sale 
of town lots. The first sale made was lot 5 
in block 2, to Edward Powell, a Norwegian. 
IMarch 2, 1859, they conveyed to the Mis- 
souri Pacific railroad company, through its 
trustees, for ninety-nine years, every fourth 
lot in twenty-six blocks, being all that part 
of the town north of the Missouri Pacific 
tracks, the consideration being that the Mis- 
souri Pacific Railway company locate and 
perpetuate a depot on the town site. On the 
same day of this transaction Dr. Felix, 
growing discouraged and losing faith in the 
enterprise, sold his fourth interest to D. W. 
Bouldin. 

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arrived January 17, 1861. Then there was 
a rush of people and business to the new 
town with the strange name, and the re- 
markable career of Sedalia set in. Its prom- 
ising and rapid progress, however, was 
rudely interrupted by the coming on of the 
Civil war, for the town was located in the 
very storm center of military operations in 
Missouri, and suffered accordingly. Arm- 
ies were quartered here, some of the great 
leaders — Union and Confederate — directed 
operations from this point, battles and 
skirmishes were fought within its very lim- 
its, and the horrors of fratracidal conflict 
were rife. With the cessation of hostilities, 
Sedalia renewed her upward and onward 
course, temporarily checked now and then, 
it is true, by untoward events and adverse 
circumstances, but never losing her sublime 
courage and unfailing belief in the star of 
destiny. 

General Smith lived, not only to see the 
little town he founded become a splendid 
city, but to receive many tokens of esteem 
and trust and admiration from his fellow- 
citizens and from the state and national gov- 
ernments. He was of tall and commanding 
stature, befitting the extraordinary charac- 
ter of the man and the eminent public serv- 
ices he had rendered. He would have made 
a great lawyer, undoubtedly. He would 
have filled with ability and graced with dig- 
nity the highest position in the gift of the 
people. His strikingly strong personality 
asserted itself on all occasions and made a 
lasting impression on all with whom he 
came in contract, but w'ithin this apparently 
bluff exterior was a heart that beat in 
sympathy for all mankind and a nature as 
gentle as that of a little child. 

General Smith's wife died in 1861, leav- 
ing two daughters — Martha Elizabeth and 



Sarah Elvira — both still surviving and re- 
siding in a stately mansion on East Broad- 
way — the site being a part of the original 
tract, the majestic trees on which have 
grown from seeds planted there by the gen- 
eral's own hand. 

Within rifle-shot of their splendid man- 
sion stands, in a state of good preservation,^ 
the original house which General Smith 
built in Sedalia. It is a silent memento of 
the past, but how eloquent would the dead 
voices be could they speak from the tomb 
the traditions of hospitality and helpful 
friendship extended there in the long ago. 



CHARLES GUILE WARNER. 

Charles Guile Warner, born December 
26, 1844, in Zanesville, O., son of Daniel 
and Juliet Hester (Buckmaster) Warner. 
He attended the public schools of his native 
state until he reached the age of fourteen 
years, after which he attended Washington 
Academy, Washington, Ky., one term. At 
fifteen he went to Alton, 111., and received 
his earliest training for business pursuits as 
a clerk in a dry goods store. In 1 862 he en- 
tered the Union Army and enlisted as a 
private soldier in the Thirty-second Regi- 
ment of Missouri Volunteer Infantry com- 
manded by Col. F. M. Manter of St. Louis. 
When the war ended he returned to Mis- 
souri and for three years devoted himself to 
agricultural pursuits in Jefferson county. 
Then began serving an apprenticeship in 
railroad business with which he has since 
been identified and with which he has 
earned distinction. Beginning as treasury 
clerk in the employ of the great Western 
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Missouri Pacific Railway as a clerk in one 
of the St. Louis offices. By successive steps 
he was made general auditor of the consoli- 
dated lines of the company in 1877 which he 
filled until 1893. In 1881 he consolidated 
the Missouri Pacific, St. Louis Iron Moun- 
tain & Southern, Texas & Pacific, Interna- 
tional & Great Northern, Galveston, Hous- 
ton & Henderson, Missouri, Kansas & Texas 
and the central branch of the Union Pa- 
cific lines and perfected a system which 
was operated until 1887-88, when the 
branches divided and he was made vice-pres- 
ident of the Missouri Pacific Railway Com- 
pany in 1893, a position which he still re- 
tains. He is a member of the military order 
of the Loyal Legion, Grand Army of the Re- 
public, St. Louis and Noonday Clubs. Of 
the Ohio Society of St. Louis, and a mem- 
ber of the Presbyterian Church, a director 
and one of the chief promoters of the Louis- 
iana Purchase Exposition company held in 
St. Louis, 1904. Married Miss Anna Ce- 
celia Roden. They have three children. 
Business address, 705 Market street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



DR. WILLIAM F. KIER. 

Dr. William F. Kier was born at Leech- 
burg, Pa., on August 4, 1849, He received 
his education at Richie College, at West 
Newton, Pa., taking a literary course, which 
he completed late in 1864. After this he 
studied medicine in the office of his father, 
Dr. J. S. Kier, at Detroit, Mich. He then 
took the regular medical course at the St. 
Louis Medical College, and graduated in 
the class of 1871. Since 1871 the doctor 
has been actively engaged in the practice of 



his profession in St. Louis, to which busi- 
iess he has devoted his entire attention. He 
is a member of the St. Louis Medical So- 
ciety, and of the American, of which he has 
been a member since his graduation. Since 
he entered the profession he has enjoyed a 
large general practice, but has paid more at- 
tention to gynaecology than any other 
branch of his profession. Business and res- 
idence address, 3609 Lindell boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



JULIUS S. WALSH. 

Julius S. Walsh. Financier. Born in St. 
Louis, December i, 1842, son of Edward 
and Isabelle (DeMun) Walsh. He was edu- 
cated in part, in the schools of St. Louis and 
St. Louis University, and completed his acad- 
emic course of study at St. Joseph's College, 
of Bardstown, Ky., from which institution 
he graduated in the class of 1861. Return- 
ing then to St. Louis he began the study 
of law under the preceptorship of Hon. John 
M. Krum, and later matriculated in the law 
department of Columbia College, graduat- 
ing from that institution with the degree of 
Bachelor of Laws in 1864. The same year, 
he was admitted to practice at the bar of 
New York state, and in 1865, St. Louis Un- 
iversity conferred upon him the degree of 
Master of Arts, in recognition of his schol- 
arly attainments. At the death of his father 
in 1866 he took his place as a member of the 
directors of various banking, railroad and 
street railway corporations, and evidenced 
at once his genius for financiering and be- 
came a potent factor in shaping the politics 
and controlling the affairs of the corpora- 
tions with which he was connected. In 



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1870, he was made president of the Citi- 
zens' Railway Company, and about the same 
time became president also of the Fair 
Grounds and Suburban Railway Company. 
He was made president of the Union Rail- 
way Company in 1873 and continued there- 
by to occupy a prominent position among 
the men who have built up in St. Louis the 
greatest railway system in the world. In 
1877 he became president of the People's 
Railway Company and also of the Tower 
Grove and Lafayette Railway Companies, 
and in 1885 built the Northern Central Rail- 
way, purchasing about the same time, a con- 
trolling interest in the Fair Grounds and 
Cass Avenue Railway Company. He be- 
came president of each of the companies, 
owning and operating these lines of rail- 
way, and the corporations of which he was 
the head operated in all something like sev- 
enty-five miles of street railways. Some 
time prior to 1875, he became interested in 
the improvement of the Mississippi river 
and especially in the plan of deepening the 
channel at the mouth of the river through a 
system of jetties. In the year last named he 
was chosen president of the South Pass 
Jetty Company and acted in that capacity 
until the desired results were obtained in 
the creation of a channel at the mouth of 
the river thirty-two feet in depth. From 
1875 to 1890, he served also as president of 
the St. Louis Bridge Company and in 1889 
was elected to the presidency of the Munici- 
pal Electric Light Company. In 1895, he 
was made vice-president of the St. Louis 
Terminal Association, and in 1896 succeeded 
to the presidency of a corporation which con- 
trols the terminals of twenty-two railroads 
now entering St. Louis and property worth 
thirty millions of dollars. In addition to 
acting as president and chief executive of- 



ficer of the corporations to which reference 
has been made, Mr. Walsh has been of- 
ficially connected also as a director with the 
Third National Bank, the Laclede National 
Bank, the Merchants Laclede Bank, the 
North Missouri Railroad Company, the St. 
Louis, Kansas City & Northern Railroad 
Company, the Wabash & Western Railroad 
Company, the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad 
Company, and the Baltimore & Ohio 
Southwestern Railroad Company. In 1874 
he was elected president of the St. Louis 
Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Associa- 
tion. In 1890 he organized the Mississippi 
Valley Trust Company, of which he be- 
came president, a position which he hasi 
since retained. He married, January 11, 
1870, Miss Josie Dickson, of St. Louis. Bus- 
iness address, 415 Locust street; residence 
address, 3628 Delmar boulevard, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



DR. HENRY SCHWARZ. 

Dr. Henry Schwarz, the son of Jacob 
and Susanne Schwarz, was born in Giessen, 
Germany, November 14, 1855. He had the 
advantages of the best educational institu- 
tions of his native city until he was seven- 
teen years old, when he came to the United 
States. He entered the St. Louis Medical 
College, graduating in 1879, after which he 
returned to Germany and entered the medi- 
cal college of the University of Giessen, 
from which institution he graduated in 
1880. He then received the appointment of 
first assistant physician to the Female Hos- 
pital attached to the University of Giessen, 
acting in this capacity from 1880 to 1881. 
Continuing his studies he became assistant 
physician to the University of Heidelberg, 



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from 1881 to 1883. Returning to St. Louis, 
he began practice, in which he has been very 
successfully engaged ever since. Dr. 
Schwarz is a member of the Naturhis- 
torisch-Medicinischer Verein, of Heidel- 
berg, the St. Louis Medical Society, St. 
Louis Academy of Science, Society of Ger- 
man Physicians of St. Louis, the St. Louis 
Obstetrical and Gynaecological Society, and 
other societies. He is consulting physician 
to the St. Louis Female Hospital and the 
City Hospital, gynaecologist to the Evan- 
gelical Lutheran Hospital, and holds other 
important professional positions. He is also 
professor of gynaecology in the St. Louis 
Medical College. On September i, 1886, the 
doctor was married to Miss J. Laura 
Forster, daughter of Marquard Forster- 
Office 440 Newstead avenue ; residence, 4397 
Westminster place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. JULES FELIX VALLE. 

Dr. Jules Felix Valle was born in St. 
Louis, on December 28, 1859, and received 
his general education in the excellent schools 
of his native state and at the Virginia Mili- 
tary Institute. He completed his medical 
education early in life, and has been a prac- 
ticing physician since 1885. Dr. Valle is a 
member of the St. Louis Medical Society, 
of the St. Louis Medico-Chirurgical Society, 
and of the St. Louis Society of Obstetrics 
and Gynaecology. He is chief of obstetrical 
clinics in the St. Louis Medical College and 
a member of the staflf of St. Luke's Hospi- 
tal ; also consulting gynaecologist to the Fe- 
male Hospital, and physician to the State 
Blind School. He was married to Mary M. 
Clover, daughter of Judge H. A. Clover, on 



January 24, 1880; graduated at the St. 
Louis Medical College in 1885; spent one 
year as assistant physician to the St. Louis 
City Hospital, after which he spent two 
years in Europe studying medicine and sur- 
gery. Office and residence, 3303 Washing- 
ton avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



NATHAN FRANK. 



Nathan Frank, lawyer and member of 
the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congress, was 
born February 2^, 1852, at Peoria, 111., son 
of Abraham and Branette Frank, natives of 
Germany, who came to the United States in 
1849, fij'st locating in Kentucky, and after- 
wards moved to Peoria, 111., in which town 
his father was an extensive property holder 
and largely aided in building up that thrifty 
city. Nathan acquired his education in the 
public schools of his native state. He went 
to St. Louis in 1867, and in 1869 he gradu- 
ated from the St. Louis high school; after 
attending the W^ashington University he 
entered the law department of Harvard Uni- 
versity, Cambridge, Mass. He received the 
degree of "Bachelor of Laws" in 1871, but 
continued his studies at Harvard another 
year. Returning home in 1872 Mr. Frank 
was admitted to the bar and devoted himself 
in the practice to commercial and bankruptcy 
law. He compiled and edited "Frank's 
Bankruptcy Law," which was published in 
1874. For three years he was associated 
in practice with Ex-Mayor John M. Krum ; 
afterwards he organized the firm of Patrick 
& Frank, on ]\Ir. Patrick's retirement from 
the position of United States attorney ; then 
that of Frank, Dawson & Garvin, and later 
the firm of Nathan Frank and Seymour D. 




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Thompson. He was elected to the Fiftieth 
and Fifty-first Congress, and as RepubHcan 
from the Central District of St. Louis, served 
on important committees. Of the important 
acts of his congressional career he opposed 
the enactment of a national election law and 
what is known as the national anti-gerry- 
mander bill, restricting or limiting the State 
Legislature in apportioning congressional 
districts in the several states. He was a 
member of the committee on the World's 
Fair Columbian Exposition, and was ap- 
pointed by Governor Francis as a member 
of the World's Fair Commission. He was 
a member of the executive committee of the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Committee 
and was instrumental in securing the large 
government aid for the World's Fair at St. 
Louis. He is the principal owner of the St. 
Louis Star, which is conducted under his 
direction. He is a member of the Jewish 
church, and is regarded as a respectable, 
worthy representative of the people of that 
denomination, and in other social and busi- 
ness relations. Business address, suite 1027 
Century building, Olive, northwest corner 
Ninth, St. Louis, Missouri. 



HENRY MARTYN BLOSSOM. 

Henry Martyn Blossom, one of the most 
prominent insurance men of the West, was 
born in Madison, New York, in the year 
1833. He comes of pure old colonial stock, 
his father having been born in Eastern Mass- 
achusetts. After living a number of years 
in New York State, however, his father de- 
cided to remove west, settling in Indiana, 
where both he and his wife died. Young 
Blossom left to shift for himself, managed 

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to secure a fair education and then came to 
St. Louis to begin life. In 1852 he became 
connected with steamboat companies, oper- 
ating boats along the Mississippi and Mis- 
souri rivers, securing a position as second 
clerk on a boat, where his brother, Capt. C. 
D. Blossom, was first clerk. Some years 
later he acquired his brother's interest in the 
boat, which made him part owner and first 
clerk. He followed this line until i860, 
when, on account of the falling off of the 
steamboat interests on the river, he accepted 
a position with an insurance company. Later 
on he became secretary of the Globe Mutual 
Insurance Company, a local concern, and 
continued with them up to the time of the 
Chicago fire. He then became the local 
agent of many foreign and domestic compan- 
ies, continuing in this line and gradually in- 
creasing his business until today the volume 
of annual business passing through his office 
is perhaps the greatest of any agency in the 
West. 

As of old on the river, his never-failing 
kindness and courtesy soon won for him a 
host of friends, and both in a social and busi- 
ness sense his rise was rapid. The insurance 
interests at that time were not by any means 
overcrowded and the strictly honorable prin- 
ciples on which he conducted his agency se- 
cured for him a foothold in the city which 
was a stepping stone to the immense amount 
of business he does today. 

Mr. Blossom has always taken an active 
part in the social life of the city, and soon 
after coming here identified himself with the 
Presbyterian Church. 

As a musician he has gained much no- 
tice and particularly in the direction of 
church music have his talents been exercised. 
He is connected with many of the fraternal 
societies, as well as musical clubs, where he 



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is known as a high-minded refined gentle- 
man. 

In June of 1855 he returned to New 
York State and married Miss Susan H. 
Brigham, his hfelong sweetheart. She was 
the daughter of Salmon H. Brigham, a well 
known leather manufacturer. Five children 
have been born to them, three sons and two 
daughters, four of whom still live and re- 
side in St. Louis. Mrs. Blossom died in 
August of 1896. His business address is 
9th floor Century building, residence 5617 
Cabana avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



EDWARD WESTEN. 

Edward Westen. merchant, was born 
August 3, 1850, in Lautsch, Moravia, Aus- 
tria, son of Antone and Eva Weston, self 
educated and began his business career at 
the age of sixteen in the tea and coffee bus- 
iness in his native town. He removed to St. 
Louis in 1884, thoroughly equipped with 
experience in the tea and cofTee business to 
which he had been trained from his early 
boyhood in his father's store in Moravia. He 
opened in that line with John Rettenmayer 
in a small retail way at 1214 Franklin ave- 
nue, organizing under the name of The 
Great Eastern Tea and Coffee Co. By a 
combination of shrewd judgment and close 
personal application to all the details of the 
business fortune was wooed and won. Li 
18S5 the increase of the business necessitated 
a move to more extensive premises, which 
were secured at mi and 11 15 Franklin 
avenue. In 1893 Mr. Westen withdrew 
from The Great Eastern Tea and Coflfc- 
Co., and organized the Edward Westen 
Tea and Spice Co., with a paid up capital of 



$50,000, opening at Washington avenue and 
Second street. Since then Mr. Westen has 
confined himself strictly to the wholesale 
business. Success was instant and most 
gratifying, so that more spacious premises 
became in time an absolute necessity. These 
were secured in the Cupples Block, at the 
corner of Clark avenue and Tenth street, in 
the heart of the wholesale district. This 
change was affected June i, 1898, when the 
capital of the company was increased to 
$200,000, The Edward Westen Tea and 
Spice Co., in its new quarters, is one of the 
best equipped tea and spice houses to be 
found anywhere in the United States, their 
trade exceeding the million dollar mark, an- 
nually. Mr. Westen is president of the cor- 
poration and to his untiring energy and abil- 
ity the success of the concern is largely due. 
Mr. Westen married Miss Marie Rottman, 
of St. Louis, the union being blessed with 
three children, Adolph, Adele and Reinhold. 
In 1898 he erected for his family a beautiful 
home on Wabash avenue. Business address 
Cupples Block, corner Clark avenue and 
Tenth street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. TILLY A. MARTIN. 

Dr. Tilly A. Martin, one of St. Louis* 
most prominent physicians, was born Janu- 
ary II, 1849, '" Miami, Saline county, Mis- 
souri, the only son of Morris Martin, a well- 
to-do stock raiser of that section, and Cath- 
erine Martin. His early education was re- 
ceived in the common schools and Prichett 
Institute, of Glasgow, Mo. ; later he entered 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in New 
York, from which he graduated with high 
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served as house physician at the lunatic 
asyhim on Blackwell Island, New York. Re- 
turning to his native state, Dr. Martin, in 
1 87 1, began the practice of medicine at Dal- 
ton, Mo., where he remained for fifteen 
years, during which time he became prom- 
inent in medical circles throughout the 
State. Desiring a wider field for his labors, 
he located in St. Louis in 1885, where he 
soon succeeded in building up a large and 
lucrative practice. In 1886 he was ap- 
pointed clinical professor of diseases of chil- 
dren in the Missouri Medical College, which 
position he still holds. Dr. Martin is also a 
member of the St. Louis Medical Society, 
State Medical Association, American Med- 
ical Association, and ex-president of the 
Moberly District Medical Society. He is 
now in the prime of life, and being a close 
student, keeps thoroughly abreast of the 
times in his profession, being especially suc- 
cessful in the treatment of diseases of wo- 
men and children. Office, 313 N. Ninth 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



AUGUST KRON. 



August Kron, one of the substantial citi- 
zens of St. Louis, was born October 23, 
1840, in Europe. The year 1844 brought 
his parents to the land of promise, and the 
career of the youthful August was silently 
laid out by the hand of destiny. He was edu- 
cated in the public schools, and on reaching 
his majority selected the trade of a butcher. 
At that time it was the wholesome custom 
for every young man to learn a trade. In 
1861 he journeyed to California, and after 
spending five years there he returned to St. 
Louis and embarked in the butchering busi- 



ness on his own account. By close applica- 
tion to business, hard work and the valuable 
trait of thrift, he laid the foundation for the 
competence he now enjoys. He was married 
in May, 1866, and raised a family of eleven 
children, five of whom are still living. Dur- 
ing the year of 1876 he formed a partnership 
with Jacob Ganger, trading as Gauger & 
Kron, conducting a livery and undertaking 
business. In 1877 ^Ir. Kron succeeded the 
firm of Gauger & Kron, and by the closest 
application to business and fair dealing he 
built up a substantial and remunerative trade. 
Several years ago Mr. Kron retired from 
active work and turned his interest over to 
his three sons, incorporating the Kron Livery 
and Undertaking Company, of which Mr. 
Kron is still president. His sons are con- 
ducting the business in a very successful 
manner and bid fair to become leaders in 
their line. Mr. Kron spends most of his 
time on a beautiful farm which he purchased 
several years ago in St. Louis county, and 
leads the quiet life of a country gentleman. 
Mr. Kron is highly esteemed by his former 
business associates and universally respected 
for his high sense of honor and business in- 
tegrity. 



JOHN P. COLLINS. 

John P. Collins was born in the city of 
St. Louis, January 6, 1867, and was edu- 
cated in the public schools. He left school 
in 1882 and entered the employ of C. Scha- 
waker, as collector for his livery and under- 
taking business, finally becoming bookkeeper 
and office manager. On March i, 1888, he 
started in this line of business for himself, 
opening a livery and toarding stable on the 
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conjunction with this business estabhshed a 
department for undertaking and embalming 
of the dead. Having received his instruc- 
tions from the very best authorities and thor- 
oughly mastering the art of preserving and 
embalming the bodies of the dead, he was 
thus enabled to give his personal attention 
to the direction of funerals, and has always 
made this department a special feature of 
his business. He soon worked up an ex- 
cellent patronage, and was obliged to extend 
his facilities by separating the two depart- 
ments, and thereupon opened his undertak- 
ing rooms at 2730 Chouteau avenue. His 
Third street stable soon became too small for 
his increasing business, and he decided to 
erect a new stable on a piece of property he 
had acquired on Jefferson avenue, which he 
did, at an expenditure of $16,000. This 
stable, situated at 1617-19-21 South Jeffer- 
son, was constructed under his personal su- 
pervision, and was opened for business Au- 
gust I, 1892. 

As said before, Mr. Collins gives parti- 
cular attention to his undertaking depart- 
ment, and he has spared no pains to equip his 
establishment in such a manner that he might 
give perfect satisfaction. Scarcely a day 
passes that he has not a funeral under his 
charge, and a complaint has never been regis- 
tered against him during all of the fifteen 
years he has been engaged in this work. 

In 1898 he retired from the livery busi- 
ness and leased his stable for a term of years. 
He now gives his time exclusively to his un- 
dertaking business, and is located at 517 
Walnut street, where he is prepared to give 
his personal attention to any work entrusted 
to his care. He is assisted by a score of 
capable assistants, who have been trained by 
himself. 

In public life, Mr. Collins has been fav- 



ored with the liberal recognition of his fel- 
low citizens. He was elected in 189 1, to rep- 
resent his district, comprising the First and 
Third Wards, as school director, and was 
elected, in 1893, for a term of four years. 
He was then nominated by the Democrats of 
the Thirty-first Senatorial District as can- 
didate for State Senator, but was defeated. 
He was renominated, in 1900, and was elect- 
ed. He is the author of several measures 
affecting the interests of the citizens of the 
city of St. Louis, from whom warm thanks 
for this work he has not failed to receive. 
His business address is 517 Walnut street, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



EDWARD A. STEININGER. 

Mr. Edward A. Steininger has been es- 
tablished in this city for fourteen years, and 
in that time has erected some of the finest 
buildings in the city. His complete knowl- 
edge of the business was learned by practical 
experience, having grown up with the object 
of taking charge of his father's interests, and 
his education has been along those lines. He 
took full charge of the concern on his twenty- 
first birthday, and has steadily built up a 
trade that takes rank among the leaders in 
the construction industr)'. His success has 
been well deserved, as he recognized the fact 
that what a customer pays for he should get, 
and every effort of the firm is toward giving 
satisfaction, and it is a well-known fact that 
where this firm has once done business they 
are always invited to bid on any new work 
that it to be done. 

Mr. Steininger is a prominent member of 
the St. Louis Master Builders' Exchange, 
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tain to the industry. His employes are all 
satisfied with the treatment they receive from 
him, and all respect him both as an employer 
of labor and as a friend. 

Some of the many buildings that have 
been built by Mr. Steininger are the General 
offices of the St. Louis Transit Co., the cold 
storage building for the same company, the 
Olivia building, and the residence of Mr. C. 
H. Spencer, all in this city. These buildings 
are well enough known to need no descrip- 
tion, and are ornaments to the city and to 
the mechanical skill of the builder. 

This firm did considerable work on 
the Tyrolean Alps building at the Fair, and 
has extensive buildings to their credit 
throughout the country. Some of their out- 
side work are the Brewery building at Okla- 
homa City, a large building for the Light 
and Power Company at Springfield, 111., as 
well as many ice plants through this part of 
the country. 

Mr. Steininger is a gentleman with whom 
it is a pleasure to do business, and he takes 
pains to make a trip to his office, 82 and 83 
Koken building, St. Louis, Missouri, a pleas- 
ant memory whether the caller becomes a 
customer or not. 



PAUL EDWARD WOLFF. 

Paul Edward Wolff, president of the 
Paul E. Wolff Shirt Co., was born May 30, 
1854, in Germany, son of Charles and Coun- 
tess (von Mensel) Wolff, and was educated 
in the high school in Germany. He is a 
member of the Paul E. Wolff Shirt Co., in- 
corporated in 1895 and composed of Paul E. 
Wolff, A. J. Hildebrand, A. H. Bruegge- 
man. Mr. Wolff was elected president of the 



company January i, 1896. He began his bus- 
iness career as a clerk in 1871 in commercial 
business in Glasgow, Scotland. In 1876 he 
started as merchant in New York. In 1880 
he came to St. Louis, and in 1882 established 
the present business of the Paul E. Wolff 
Shirt Co. Mr. Wolff is a member of the 
Union Club, St. Louis, Mo. In religious be- 
lief he is a Presbyterian. In politics he is 
Independent. He married in May, 1884, 
Miss Tessie Clemens, of St. Louis, Mo., 
and have four children, Viola, Mabel, Maude 
and Hazel Wolff. His business address is 
815 Washington avenue, and residence 2043 
Park avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



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ALEXANDER PENNY. 

Ale.xander Penny, dry goods merchant, 
was born July 9, 1845, i" Scotland, the son 

of William and (Mitchell) Penny. 

He was educated in the schools of Scotland, 
and located in St. Louis, Mo., in 1870. Mr. 
Penny made a thorough preparation for his 
business career in the old country as an ap- 
prentice salesman, and then began business 
for himselff in the same year, and conducted 
a retail establishment on Franklin avenue in 
St. Louis, Mo. The firm of Penny & Gentles 
was formed in March, 1873, composed of 
Alexander Penny and John Gentles, and 
since its organization, Mr. Penny has de- 
voted his entire time to his business. The 
business of the firm has been increased from 
year to year since it was organized, and is 
known as one of the popular dry goods es- 
tablishments of St. Louis. Mr. Penny, in 
religious belief, is a Congregationalist, and 
takes an active interest in Church matters, 
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enterprises. He was married Sept. 5, 1874, 
in New York, to Miss Jennie Morrison, and 
they have have two children, Mrs. Elizabeth 
French and William A. Penny. His business 
address is Broadway and Washington ave- 
nue, and residence address Webster Groves. 



WILLIAM WASHINGTON GRAVES. 

Dr. William Washington Graves w-as 
born at LaGrange, Oldham county, Ken- 
tucky, November 13, 1865. His father was 
David William Graves, and his mother Julia 
A. (Crockett) Graves, the latter being a 
direct descendant from the famous pioneer. 
Colonel Davy Crockett. His parents moved 
to Montgomery county, Missouri, a few 
years after the birth of our subject, and here 
William was educated in the country schools. 
He was first employed in a general merchan- 
dise store in Montgomery City, after which 
he taught school for two terms in Southeast 
Missouri. Finally deciding to study medi- 
cine, he came to this city and entered the St. 
Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
graduating with high honors in 1888, and 
delivering the valedictory address of his 
class. Immediately commencing practice, 
he soon built up an unusually successful bus- 
iness which has steadily increased, until now, 
we believe without doubt, he is in the enjoy- 
ment of what is probably the largest practice 
of any physician north of Franklin avenue. 

Dr. Graves' success as a physician, for so 
youthful a man, is almost phenomenal. Upon 
his graduation in 1888, he was entirely 
without means, and entering a field in which 
were many tried and experienced practition- 
ers, he at once stepped into the front rank 
of his profession. In the few years that 



he has been practicing he has reached a 
degree of eminence for which many physi- 
cians struggle a lifetime to attain. He owns 
his own house at 1102 Chambers street, and 
has recently built an office extension to it at 
an expense of over $2,000, making it one 
of the most attractive and convenient physi- 
cian's offices in St. Louis. Dr. Graves is a 
member of the St. Louis Medical Society 
and of the Mississippi Valley Medical Asso- 
ciation. He is the clinical professor of dis- 
eases of children in the St. Louis College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. In 1891 he mar- 
ried Miss Helene J. Sessinghaus, daughter 
of Hon. Gustavus Sessinghaus, ex-member 
of Congress. The doctor and Mrs. Graves 
have one child, a daughter. Office, 3908 
Olive street. 



DR. AUGUSTUS VON LIEU BROKAW 

Dr. Augustus Von Lieu Brokaw was 
born at the St. Louis City Hospital, of which 
his father was at that time superintendent, 
on April 6, 1863, his parents being Fred V. 
L. Brokaw and Marion Brokaw. The doc- 
tor's early instruction was received in the 
public schools of St. Louis, followed by the 
training of Polytechnic and High Schools. 
His first entry into business was in profes- 
sional life, in 1886. as a regular physician. 
His subsequent business career has been tliat 
of a practicing surgeon. Dr. Brokaw is a 
meml)er of the following societies : The 
American Medical Association, the Southern 
Surgical and Gynaecological Society, the St. 
Louis Medical Society, and the Medico- 
Chirurgical Society. Besides being a mem- 
ber of these societies, the doctor is professor 
of anatomy in the Missouri Medical College, 
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surgery in the same institution. He is like- 
wise surgeon to St. John's Hospital, and con- 
sulting surgeon to the City and French Hos- 
pitals. Dr. Brokaw was married to Miss 
Julia Penn Crawford, of Alabama, on Octo- 
ber 10, 1888. Office 536 N. Taylor; resi- 
dence, 4482 Washington boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS S. McPHEETERS. 

Thomas S. AlcPheeters, president of the 
St. Louis Refrigerator and Cold Storage Co. 
To be thoroughly well known and highly es- 
teemed in a great city like St. Louis, means 
that the individual who enjoys this distinc- 
tion possesses some attributes of character, 
which especially commend him to the regard 
of his fellow-citizens. Mr. McPheeters, to 
begin with, is a native of St. Louis. He was 
born here May 5, 1852. His father 
was a well-known Presbyterian clergy- 
man, the Rev. Samuel B. McPheeters, 
and his mother's name was Eliza Mc- 
Pheeters. The son, Thomas, began his 
first schooling in Washington Univer- 
sity, St. Louis, and took a finishing course 
in Lee University, Virginia. He was not 
inclined to any professional pursuit and de- 
cided to lead a mercantile life, making his 
first entry into business in 1873. Serving 
other people in the capacity of a clerk for 
three years, he finally, in 1876, entered upon 
the business of warehousing, as one of a firm, 
and after several years of successful opera- 
tion changed his house, in 1880, into a cor- 
poration, under the name and style of the 
McPheeters Warehouse Company," doing 
business at 1104 to 11 18 North Levee, on a 
cash capital of $80,000, with Frank Carter 



as president, and T. S. McPheeters, as vice- 
president and general manager. This com- 
pany afterwards joined the American Ware- 
housemen's Association, which was organ- 
ized October 15, 1891, at Chicago, Illinois, 
and it is the only warehouse of that body in 
St. Louis. The purpose of the association, 
as it is now well understood, is to secure as 
far, as possible, a uniform manner of doing 
warehouse business throughout the country, 
equalizing rates for the benefit of the mer- 
chants and advancing the mutual interests of 
the members and those having business re- 
lations with them. In each of the large trade 
centers of the country will be found one of 
these association warehouses. Mr. McPheet- 
ers is a member of the executive committee 
of this association, and the warehouse in St. 
Louis has enjoyed the special favor of the 
merchants of the city, and its success is un- 
doubtedly largely attributable to the able 
management of Mr. McPheeters. 

While ardently devoted to his warehouse 
and expending a remarkable energ)^ in his 
application to the details of his business, he 
has found time and occasion to push the 
Christian work of the Young Men's Christian 
Association. He has become a great leader 
in the society — is at the head of all its move- 
ments in this city, and is chairman of the 
state committee of Missouri. He never tires 
in the good work, and gives to the organiza- 
tion that same unflagging zeal and cheerful 
support that are so characteristic of 
the whole man in whatever duty in 
life he may have to perform. Mr. Mc- 
Pheeters is not an ascetic in any 
sense. He is an enthusiast in relig- 
ious matters, but his face wears no solemn 
mask, his coat is not of formal cut, his speech 
is not marked by any sanctimonious tone. He 
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ful, every-day Christian worker, which the 
world, even the wicked world, likes to see 
and meet and help and encourage. The in- 
fluence of such a man in such an organiza- 
tion as the Young Men's Christian Associa- 
tion is a great and good one. 

Mr. McPheeters was married October 28, 
1880, to Miss Elizabeth Polk, youngest 
daughter of the late Governor Trusten Polk, 
of Missouri. His business address is Lewis 
and O'Fallon streets, and residence, 3824 
Delmer avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



LOUIS C. DIEKMANN. 

Louis C. Diekmann. Coal dealer. Born 
September i, 1857, in St. Louis. Son of 
Frederick W. and Elise Diekmann. He was 
reared in this city and educated in the public 
schools, and spent one year in the High 
School, then quit school and began making 
his own living. At thirteen years of age he 
became an office boy in the employ of Gar- 
rett, McDowell & Co., noted manufacturers 
of and dealers in pig iron. Remaining there 
thirteen years, he then quit their employ and 
established himself in the coal business 
alone, and later formed the Diekmann Coal 
Company, a corporation of which he is now 
president. His business career has been a 
remarkably successful one, and he is num- 
bered among the prominent representatives 
of the commercial and industrial interests of 
St. Louis. He is a Republican of pro- 
nounced views, and has a natural capacity 
for leadership. Has taken an active interest 
in politics for several years. Was first 
elected to membership in the House of Dele- 
gates in November of 1890, to fill out an un- 
expired term. Li 1891 was re-elected for a 



full term, and re-elected again in 1893. 
During the last term, served as speaker of 
the House. As a local legislator he was con- 
spicuous for his business-like methods of 
conducting public affairs. In fraternal cir- 
cles lie is known as an influential factor in 
promoting the order of the Knights of Pyth- 
ias in this city. He served two terms as 
chancellor commander of Golden Crown 
Lodge, and afterward organized Wabash 
Lodge No. 248. of which he was first chan- 
cellor commander, and which he has repre- 
sented as a delegate to the Grand Lodge 
every year since 1892. Is a member of the 
Royal Arcanum, and of the Masonic order. 
He married, in 1881, Miss Sophie M. Brede- 
meyer, and has a family of five children, one 
son and four daughters. Business address. 
Main and North Market streets, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



DR. LOUIS E. NEWMAN. 

Dr. Louis E. Newman is the son of the 
late Socrates Newman, a well-known citizen 
of St. Louis. His mother was Lina Vitalis, 
of one of the old French families. He was 
born September 3, 1861, in Carondelet, and 
was educated at the St. Louis University. 
Early in his life he manifested a decided pref- 
erence for the study of medicine and sur- 
gery, and took the regular courses in the 
Missouri Medical College, at St. Louis, and 
the Jefferson Medical College, at Philadel- 
phia, in which institutions he took degrees. 
This thorough preliminary work was supple- 
mented by two years in the best colleges and 
most noted hospitals in Europe, where his 
proficiency was marked and secured for him 
the favorable regard of many distinguished 
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year 1885, Dr. Newman at once entered upon 
his practice, and has already made his mark 
in the ranks of his profession. He is a mem- 
ber of the St. Louis Medical Society, and 
physician to St. John's Hospital. His office 
is at 313 N. Ninth street, and residence 4040 
Washington boulevard, St. Louis, Missouri. 



Wilde, on April 8, 1892. His residence is 
at 2349 Washington avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



DR. F. WILLIAM GRUNDMANN. 

Dr. F. William Grundmann was born in 
Westphalia, Germany, on October 16, 1858, 
his parents being William and Louise 
Grundmann. The doctor attended school 
for many years and completed his ed- 
ucation at the following institutions : 
At the Good Samaritan Hospital, in 
1881 and 1882, where he pursued his 
studies also during vacation. In 1884 
he attended the Valley Park Sanitar- 
ium, and finished his medical course at the 
Central Wesleyan College, at Warrenton, 
Missouri, in 1886. He then entered earnest- 
ly ypon the study of medicine, and graduated 
at the Homoeopathic Medical College of 
Missouri, in 1888. The year previous to his 
graduation he had studied the spring course 
at the Missouri Medical College, of St. 
Louis. In 1 89 1 he completed his regular 
studies by graduating at the St. Louis Col- 
lege of Physicians and Surgeons. Dr. 
Grundmann has been continuously in the 
practice of his chosen profession since grad- 
uation, as a physician and surgeon. He has 
been physician of the Good Samaritan Hos- 
pital since 1889. In 1892 he organized the 
present medical staff of the Good Samaritan 
Hospital, to which he is still surgeon. Dr. 
Grundmann was married to Miss Sophie 



ARTHUR G. FRANCIS. 

Arthur G. Francis, manager St. Louis 
Branch, Manhattan Rubber Manufacturing 
Company, was born September 27, 1865, in 
St. Louis, Mo., the son of Charles W. and 
Eulalia (Maguire) Francis, and was edu- 
cated in the Washington University. The 
grandfather of Mr. Francis was mayor of 

the city of St. Louis in . He began his 

business career, with the L. M. Rumsey Man- 
ufacturing Company in 1882; Star Union 
Line, St. Louis, in 1886; was in business 
in 1887 to 1 891; the Manhattan Rubber 
Manufacturing Company in 1891 to 1905. 
In 1902 he became the manager of the St. 
Louis branch of this company. The firm 
transacts a large business in all kinds of rub- 
ber goods. Mr. Francis is a member of the 
Missouri Athletic Club, and the Hoohoo 
Club. He was married October 31, 1893, 
to Miss Maud Pease, of St. Louis. One 
daughter, Louisa, was born to them. His 
business address is 214 N. Second St.; resi- 
dence, 3855 Washington boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



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OWEN FORD. 

Owen Ford, consulting engineer, was 
born March 17, 1866, in Warren county, 
Ohio, son of Wilson and Louisa (Hunts- 
berger) Ford. Acquired his education in 
the High School of Middleton, Ohio, and 
graduated in the class of 1882. In the be- 



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ginning of his business career Mr. Ford was 
two years manager of the telephone ex- 
change and property in the counties of But- 
ler, Warren and Wayne in Ohio; in 1884, 
electrician and manager of the Middleton 
(Ohio) Edison Illuminating Company; 
1884-85. superintendent of construction for 
the Ohio Edison Installation Company; 
1885-88, superintendent of construction of 
the Western Edison Company, Chicago; 
1888-89, Coster & Ford, Omaha and Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio; 1889-93, district engineer and 
manager of the light, power and mining de- 
partment of the General Electric Company, 
Rocky Mountain district; 1893-1905, con- 
sulting engineer, St. Louis, Mo. Has or- 
ganized the following companies, of which 
he is now president : Jerseyville Illuminating 
Company, Jerseyville, 111. ; Jerseyville Light, 
Heat & Power Company, of the same place. 
The individual business of Owen Ford, con- 
sulting engineer, was estal)lished in 1893 in 
St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Ford is a member of 
the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, Mo. ; Amer- 
ican Academy, Political and Social Science, 
Philadelphia. In religious belief he is a 
Presbyterian. In politics he is a Republi- 
can. Married, September 19, 1888, in Mid- 
dleton, Ohio, to Miss Anna C. Wannen- 
wetch. Business address. Security build- 
ing; residence address, 5132-a Kensington 
avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS H. WEST. 

Thomas H. West, president of the St. 
Louis Trust Company, was born in Hender- 
son county, Tenn., in July, 1846, and is 
therefore in the prime of vigorous manhood. 
His chief inheritance was the sterling worth 



of an ancestry of strong characters and 
courageous energy. His father, John West, 
was a prominent and honored citizen of that 
locality, and his mother, Martha (Ashcraft) 
reared him in the principles of integrity and 
generous notions. His education was ac- 
quired in his native state, and at the age of 
nineteen years he removed from Tennessee. 
Soon after, he located in Louisville, Ky., 
where he secured a position in a wholesale 
dry goods house as traveling salesman. 

After an experience of four years in that 
business, he bought an interest in a hard- 
ware house, in which he continued for about 
two years. About that time his father, who 
had been engaged in the cotton business, 
died, and the subject of this sketch became 
his successor. So, in 1870, he removed to 
Mobile, Ala., where he continued in the 
business of handling cotton until 1880; hav- 
ing, in the meantime, opened a branch house 
in New Orleans, La. He was compelled to 
leave Mobile on account of the fever evi- 
demic of 1880, and coming to St. Louis, 
established himself in business in this city. 
Branch houses, however, were continued at 
Mobile, under the firm name of Allen, Bush 
& West and in New Orleans under the name 
of Allen, West & Bush, being subsequently 
incorporated as the Allen-West Commission 
Company. 

In October, 1889, the St. Louis Trust 
Company was organized and incorporated, 
upon a capitalized basis of $2,500,000, which 
has since been increased until it now has a 
capital of $3,000,000, and its stock selling 
at par with only fifty per cent paid in. At 
the request of the directors, Mr. West ac- 
cepted the presidency of that great institu- 
tion. Since that time he has given nearly 
his entire attention to its management. As- 
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lowing well known gentlemen, who consti- 
tute one of the strongest combinations in 
the country : John T. Davis, Daniel Catlin, 
Samuel W. Fordyce, Adolphus Busch, 
Henry C. Haarstick, William L. Huse, 
Charles D. McLure, Alvah Mansur, Ed- 
uard S. Rowse, John A. Scudder, Edward 
S. Whitaker, E. C. Simmons, E. O. Stanard 
and J. C. Van Blarcom. 

The company is officered as follows : 
Thomas H. West, president ; Henry C. 
Haarstick, first vice-president; John A. 
Scudder, second vice-president ; John D. 
Filley, secretary, and A. C. Stewart, counsel. 
John T. Davis, Sr., was first vice-president 
up to the time of his death. 

Such are the interesting and leading 
features of an active, useful life that is being 
rounded out to an honorable career as a por- 
tion of the commercial and financial history 
of St. Louis. Residence address, 11 West- 
moreland Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



GEORGE F. DURANT. 

That the general managership of a vast 
system of telephones and wires, such as that 
of the Bell Telephone Company in St. Louis, 
is a most difficult position to fill satisfacto- 
rily, must be known by everybody who has 
even a superficial knowledge of the difficul- 
ties, yet George F. Durant has occupied this 
thankless place for many years, and has dis- 
charged the duties of the office with admir- 
able tact and ability, and the company's ex- 
pansion and growth since 1877, when he 
took charge, have won for him the genuine 
appreciation of his superiors. 

Mr. Durant was born at Jersey City, in 
1842, and is the son of Charles F. Durant, 



a man of many scientific attainments, who 
has left to the scientific world a most inter- 
esting work on the "Algje of New York 
Bay and Harbor." His mother was Miss 
Elizabeth Hamilton Freeland, of New York. 
After he had completed his education, which 
he received from the schools of Jersey City, 
young George, who early developed electri- 
cal tastes, was made superintendent of the 
fire alarm and telegraph system of his native 
city, which he successfully conducted for 
two years. After this he went to Lima, 
South America, contracting' to put in a fire 
alarm and telegraph system, and remaining 
two years. 

Returning, he was made superintendent 
of the American District Telegraph Com- 
pany, of New York, a position he held until 
1874, when he came to St. Louis and organ- 
ized the American District Telegraph Com- 
pany. When this company obtained control 
of the Bell Telephone, Mr. Durant became 
general manager. Business address, 920 
Olive street; residence address, Benton 
Place, St. Louis, Missouri. 



PHILIP M. HUCKE. 

Philip M. Hucke, manager of the Kolb 
Coal Company, was born March 5. 1871, in 
Mascoutah, 111, son of Philip and Elizabeth 
(Leibrock) Hucke. Educated in the public 
schools of Mascoutah, 111. ; Bryant & Strat- 
ton Business College; University of Illinois, 
class of 1893. Mr. Hucke came to St. 
Louis, Mo., September i, 1900, from Illi- 
nois. In his native state he had been success- 
ful in all of his endeavors up to the time he 
changed his residence to the state of Mis- 
souri, and has brought with him those esti- 



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mable qualities of good citizenship and busi- 
ness efficiency which characterized his 
former life in Illinois. Equipped with 
a liberal education he is an aggressive 
business man in the strict sense of 
the word. He began at the bottom 
round of the ladder as a teacher, which 
vocation he followed for five years, 
then in the grocery business at St. Louis, 
then manager in the coal business, which 
business he has become thoroughly familiar 
with, and by his active business manage- 
ment has built up for the company he repre- 
sents a large business which extends over a 
large territory contiguous to St. Louis. In 
1902 he organized the Genevieve Lime & 
Quarry Company, of which he is now sec- 
retary. He is a member of the Missouri 
Athletic Club, Masonic order, mesmber of 
Royal Arcanum, O. M. P., Knights and 
Ladies of Honor, United German Order. 
He affiliates with the Republican party. 
Business address, 305 Mermod & Jaccard 
building; residence address, 1000 Chouteau 
avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



NELSON O. NELSON. 

Nelson O. Nelson, co-operative manu- 
facturer, was born September 11, 1844, in 
Lillesand, Norway, son of Anders and Gert- 
rude Nelson. His parents removed to 
Buchanan county. Mo., in 1847. His 
mother died in New Orleans soon after the 
arrival of the family in this country. Mr. 
Nelson was reared in Buchanan county, 
where he went to school in winter and 
worked on a farm in summer. At sixteen 
years of age he enlisted in the Union army, 
and served during the war in Leland's bat- 



talion, and in the Fourth and Tenth Regi- 
ments of Kansas Infantry. Participated in 
the battles of Newtonia, Horse Creek, 
Prairie Grove, and other engagements. 
Later passed a military examination which 
resulted in his being commissioned a lieu- 
tenant in the regular army, which he subse- 
quently declined. Beteame connected with 
the wholesale grocery trade in St. Louis, but 
a year later embarked in business in St. 
Joseph, Mo. In 1870 removed to Hiawatha, 
Kans. In 1872 came again to St. Louis, 
where he entered upon his career as a busi- 
ness man, beginning as a bookkeeper for 
Bagnall Bros., later becoming manager of 
the establishment, and still later a partner in 
it. In 1877 opened a business house of his 
own at the corner of Lucas avenue and Sec- 
ond street. His business grew steadily and 
one factory after another was added to the 
original plant until his enterprise furnished 
employment, in all, to about four hun- 
dred men. In 1890 he founded the 
village of Leclaire, 111., he himself be- 
coming a resident of the village, where 
he still lives. In the discharge of his 
civic duties he has been called upon to 
serve in the city council of St. Louis, having 
been elected a member of that body in 1887. 
His earliest political sentiment was one of 
hostility to the institution of slavery, and he 
stood with the Republican party until the 
passage of the McKinley tariff law aroused 
his opposition to what he considered an un- 
just and iniquitous system of taxation, since 
which time he has acted with the Democratic 
party. He was baptized, confirmed and 
reared in the Lutheran faith, but in later 
years became a member of the Church of 
the Messiah of St. Louis. Many good move- 
ments are indebted to him for their origin, 
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free steamboat excursions for poor children 
and mothers, which he originated in 1879, 
also the free river bath houses. He aided in 
founding the Self-Culture Workingmen's 
Clubs, conducted free lecture courses, and 
started traveling libraries for country school 
districts. He is a member of Tuscan Lodge 
of the Order of Free Masons, and of Ran- 
som Post of the Grand Army of the Repub- 
lic. April 23, 1868, he married Miss Al- 
meria Posegate of St. Joseph, Missouri. Of 
five children born of their union, Mrs. L. D. 
Lawnin, and Charlotte Nelson were living 
in 1898. Two grandsons, Nelson and Jo- 
seph Lawnin, complete the family circle. 
Business address, Eighth and St. Charles, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



OLIVER LAWRENCE GARRISON. 

Oliver Lawrence Garrison, president of 
the Big Muddy Coal & Iron Company, was 
born in St. Louis October 13, 1848. His 
father, Oliver Garrison, was intimately con- 
nected with the early manufacturing and 
commercial history of St. Louis, was presi- 
dent of the Mechanics' Bank for twenty-five 
years, and was one of the founders of the 
Eagle Foundry. His mother, Louisa (Hale) 
Garrison, died June 19, 1893, four years 
after her husband. 

He is a nephew of D. R. Garrison, who 
was his father's partner in the establishment 
of the Eagle Foundry, over fifty-five years 
ago, while his paternal grandfather. Captain 
Oliver Garrison, was of old Puritan stock 
and the owner of the first line of packets on 
the Hudson river between New York and 
West Point. His grandmother on the same 
side of the house was descended from old 



Knickerbocker stock, and was related to 
some of the families prominent in early New 
York history. 

Oliver received his education chiefly at 
Wyman Institute, being a school-mate of 
Winthrop G. Chappell. He left school when 
seventeen years of age, for the purpose of 
entering the insurance business. After four 
years spent in this line, he concluded to fol- 
low, to some extent, in the footsteps of his 
father and distinguished uncle, and accord- 
ingly he entered the iron trade, which he has 
followed most successfully. His business is 
of vast proportions, and besides his 
iron interests he is an extensive oper- 
ator and dealer in coal in Chicago, his 
interests in that city being nearly as exten- 
sive as his business in St. Louis. He is an 
influential member of the Merchants' Ex- 
change, and a very active club and benevo- 
lent society man, being a member of the Mer- 
cantile Club, the St. Louis Jockey Club, of 
the Legion of Honor, Compton Hill Council, 
besides various other social and benevolent 
societies in St. Louis, and clubs in other 
cities. 

Mr. Garrison was married to Miss Mary 
S. Siegrist, in 1879, and has three children 
living — Oliver L., Jr., Hazel Marie and 
Clifford R. Residence, 4005 Westminster 
place; office, 105 N. Seventh street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



DR. M. P. SEXTON. 

Dr. M. P. Sexton. Superintendent of the 
Bonner Springs Sanitarium. Born March 
30, 1857, in Boone county, Mo., son of 
Charles E. and Mary E. (McDonnald) Sex- 
ton, both born in Missouri while it was yet 



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a territory. The Sexton family of Missouri 
was established by George Sexton who 
came from Maryland in 1818, bringing with 
him a large number of slaves, and located in 
Boone county, Mo. Dr. M. P. Sexton at- 
tended a country school, and received his 
higher literary education in the University 
of Missouri, taking a scientific course in the 
academic department. He then studied 
medicine in the medical department of the 
same institution and graduated in 1880. He 
also took clinical and hospital training at 
various times in St. Louis and New York 
City. He began practice at Centralia, Mo., 
in 1880, afterwards removing to Callaway 
county, where he was engaged in the prac- 
tice for eight years. He then removed to 
New York where he occupied a position on 
the medical staff of Mount Sinai Hospital. 
In 1890 while so engaged he was appointed 
assistant physician in the Missouri Hos- 
pital for the Insane at Fulton, Mo., where he 
remained until 1892 when he located in Kan- 
sas City, devoting his attention there to men- 
tal and nervous diseases. In 1894 he or- 
ganized a stock company and established the 
Bonner Springs Sanitarium, located in the 
suburb of Kansas City for the treatment of 
the diseases named. Of this institution he 
is the president and superintendent of the 
managing company. He is professor of 
nervous and mental diseases in the College 
of Physicians and Surgeons, and for one 
year held the same position in the Woman's 
Medical College. He is a member of the 
Kansas City Academy of Medicine, the 
Kansas City District Medical Society, the 
Wyandotte County Medical Society, the 
Kansas City State Medical Society and the 
American Medical Association. He is a 
leading contributor to leading medical 
journals. He is a commandery member in 



Masonry, a noble of the IMystic Shrine, and 
holds membership with the Modern Wood- 
man, and United Workmen. Dr. Sexton 
was married March 27, 1884, to Miss Fanny 
Townsand, daughter of the late Hon. Eli 
Townsand, for many years mayor of Ful- 
ton, Mo., and a leading citizen of Callaway 
county. Two children have been born, 
Stella and Charles Eli Sexton. Business 
address, 409 Century building; residence. 
Independence, Missouri. 



SAMUEL S. SIMPSON. 

Samuel S. Simpson. Born January 12, 
1843, iri Fauquier county, Va. He is a son 
of William and Eleanor A. Jones, who re- 
moved from Virginia to St. Louis, and 
later took up their residence in Booneville, 
Mo. Samuel S. acquired his education at the 
Kemper school. He was a tutor for twenty 
years, superintendent of the Versailles, Mo., 
schools and Nevada schools, principal of 
the Booneville Seminary, Booneville, Mo., 
and taught in other educational institutions 
in Missouri. After giving up the work he 
became the Missouri representative of an 
eastern publishing company and afterwards 
engaged in the life insurance business. In 
1885 he removed to Kansas City, Mo., and 
became special agent of the Connecticut Mu- 
tual Life Insurance Company for that city 
and western Missouri, and serving as gen- 
eral agent for the company since September 
I, 1890. Mr. Simpson is conversant with 
the life insurance business in all of its de- 
partments, and his promotion in that line 
was made solely on account of his efficiency 
in that line. He became president of the 
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tion, and served two terms. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat and in favor of a gold 
standard monetary basis. A member of the 
Calvary Baptist Church, Kansas City. He 
is a public spirited citizen, interested in all 
worthy enterprises for the good of Kansas 
City. In 1868 he was married to Miss 
Bettie W. Lockett, of Coles county, Mis- 
souri. Four sons have been born : George 
W., Stephen S., Maurice E. and Edgar V. 
Simpson. Mrs. Simpson died in 1887 and 
he was again married in 1890 to Mrs. Sallie 
Holden Merritt. Deacon since 1900 of Cal- 
vary Baptist Church ; taught the public 
school at Fayette, Mo., 1864-5; about 1894 
was president of Kansas City Life Under- 
writers' Association and relected in 1900 
to the second term. Business address, 311 
Keith and Perry building, Kansas City, Mis- 
souri. 



& Texas Railway Company as general man- 
ager and vice-president. Address, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



ANDREW ANIEL ALLEN. 

Andrew Aniel Allen, railway official; 
born in Monmouth, 111., 1855; common 
school education ; entered railway service in 
1869 as telegraph messenger C. B. & Q. Ry. ; 
later assistant operator and clerk until 1872; 
ticket agent and operator, assistant train dis- 
patcher and train dispatcher Toledo, Peoria 
& Warsaw Railway, 1872-80; city ticket 
agent at Chicago and trainmaster Peoria, 
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway, 
1880-2; on Wisconsin Central Railway, as 
manager and assistant general manager, 
1882-9; general manager Chicago & North- 
ern Pacific and Chicago & Calumet Terminal 
Railways, 1889-92 ; superintendent con- 
struction Everett & Monte Cristo Railway, 
1892-3; since 1893 with Missouri, Kansas 



SAMUEL FRANKLIN SCOTT. 

Samuel Franklin Scott. Born September 
3, 1849, at Port Hope, Province of Ontario, 
Dominion of Canada. His parents were 
James M. and Rebecca (McComb) Scott, 
both born in Ireland of Scotch-Irish 
parentage; soon after they were married 
they removed to the United States, locating 
first in Wisconsin, and afterwards in Mc- 
Henry county, Illinois. Samuel F. was 
limited in education to that afforded in the 
common schools of Beloit, Wis., and there 
he began to learn the trade of an iron 
moulder. This occupation ceased in 1865, 
when at the age of sixteen years he enlisted 
in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Regi- 
ment, Illinois Infantry volunteers, and the 
day following his enlistment his father be- 
came a member of the same company, and 
served near him, until the close of the war. 
In 1868 Mr. Scott became a resident of 
Kansas City, Mo., where he engaged as real 
estate agent and followed it until a few 
years ago, where he operated extensively 
that line of business. He laid out many ad- 
ditions, among them were Pioneer Place, 
Garfield Park, Highland Park, Hyne and 
Scott's addition, Howe and Scott's addition, 
Hamlin addition, Passfield Place, Rocka- 
way, Sidney Place and the East Bottoms, 
now a manufacturing location. May 26, 
1898, he was appointed postmaster of Kan- 
sas City, Mo., and was the first postmaster 
to occupy the new government building. In 
politics he is an unswerving Republican, in 
which party he has taken an active interest 



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up to the present time. In 1884 he was a 
candidate for elector at large. Colonel 
Scott owes his military title from his con- 
nection with the militia establishment. He 
assisted in recruiting the famous military 
company of Kansas City, the Scott rifles, 
named for him as its recruiting officer. He 
commanded it when it served as body guard 
to Gen. WilK'im T. Sherman, upon the oc- 
casion of the National Encampment at Min- 
neapolis. The company afterwards became 
Company A, of the Third Regiment of the 
Missouri National Guard. Captain Scott 
was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of 
the regiment, but soon afterwards resigned. 
In 1874 Colonel Scott married Miss May 
J. Lombard, a daughter of Lemuel C. 
Lombard of Cook county, Illinois, an early 
settler of that county. Four children have 
been born of this marriage, Samuel P., 
Myrtle, Pearl and Florence Scott. Business 
address, i and 2 Century building, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM EVANS BARD. 

William Evans Bard. Druggist. Born 
July 30, 1866, in Sedalia, Mo. Son of W. 
E. and Sally( (Talbott) Bard, Sr. Educated 
in the Missouri State University, Colum- 
bia, Mo. Began his business career selling 
drugs when only six years old in his father's 
store, 108 Main street. Had charge of the 
business for twenty years, for a number of 
years as partner with his father under the 
firm name of W. E. Bard & Son, becoming 
sole proprietor at the death of his father in 
1900. He is now conducting three stores, 
108 West Main street, and 416 South Ohio 
street, Sedalia, Mo., and 200 Main street, 



Windsor, Mo. Wholesale and retail at main 
store, retail only at branches. 

Mr. Bard is a member of the Elks, and 
Republican in politics. He was married No- 
vember 22, 1892, in Lexington, Mo., to Miss 
Mazee MacGrew. Business address, 108 
West Main street; residence address, cor- 
ner of Sixth and Grand avenue, Sedalia, 
Missouri. 



W. E. BARD, SR. 



W. E. Bard, Sr. (deceased), was born 
in Pennsylvania in 1840. He was married 
twice, his first wife being Miss Sally Talbott, 
of Boonville, to whom he was married there 
in September, 1864, and by whom he had 
six children, viz: W. E. Bard, Jr., of Seda- 
lia ; Mrs. Maytie Brown, of Nevada ; Charles 
Bard and Mrs. Van Antwerp, of Sedalia, and 
Mrs. H. H. Hyatt, of Kirkwood, Mo. Mr. 
Bard's second wife, who survives him, was 
Miss Anna Isabel, of Havana, III, to whom 
he was married November i, 1889, at Ha- 
vana, 111. Of this union one daughter, Mil- 
dred, was born and is living. 

In 1859 Mr. Bard engaged in the drug 
business at Georgetown. A year later 
he came to Sedalia and opened a drug 
store where Hinsdale & Menefe's barn 
now stands, the firm being W. E. 
Bard & Co. Later Mr. Bard entered 
into a co-partnership with Dr. R. T. 
Miller, and for twenty years the firm 
was Bard & Miller. Subsequently it became 
\V. E. Bard & Son. For thirty-four years 
Mr. Bard had been a Mason, and at the time 
of his death he was treasurer of the two local 
lodges. In the earlier days he held minor 
offices, but of late years he had positively 
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withstanding his party (RepubHcan) fre- 
quently importuned him to become a candi- 
date for mayor or presiding judge of the 
County Court. Mr. Bard was a deacon in 
the First Christian Church. He came to 
Sedaha, Mo., in i860, and began business in 
a frame store room 10x12, with a capital of 
$150.00, this being the first mercantile estab- 
lishment in the town of Sedalia. He was for 
a number of years president of the Missouri 
Pharmaceutical Association, also being a 
charter member of that organization. 



CHAMP CLARK. 



Champ Clark. Congressman, lawyer. 
Born in Anderson county, Ky., March 7, 
1850; educated in the common schools, 
Kentucky University, Bethany College and 
Cincinnati Law School ; president of 
Marshall College, West Virginia, 1873- 
4 ; has worked as hired hand on farm, 
clerk in country store; country news- 
paper editor; lawyer; was city attorney of 
Louisiana, Mo., and later of Bowling Green, 
Mo. ; prosecuting attorney of Pike county ; 
presidential elector; member of Congress. 
Residence, Bowling Green, Missouri. 



ALFRED TOLL. 



Alfred Toll, lumberman ; president of the 
Badger Lumber Co., of Kansas City. Born 
it Schenectady, N. Y. Son of Phillip R. 
and Nancy (DeGrafif) Toll; educated in the 
common schools of Michigan, supplemented 
with a thorough commercial course; began 
his career in the mercantile business and in 

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milling; engaged in the lumber business at 
Hannibal, Mo., in 1866, as member of the 
firm of Rowe & Toll ; 1870 the firm was in- 
corporated under the laws of Wisconsin as 
the Badger State Lumber Company, con- 
tinuing in business at Hannibal, Mo., with 
Mr. Toll as manager until 1886, when its 
affairs were liquidated and the Badger 
Lumber Co. was organized under the laws 
of Missouri and removal was made to Kan- 
sas City ; Mr. Toll was then elected presi- 
dent and general manager of the company, 
which position he now occupies; he is sole 
owner of the Toll Lumber & Box Co., of 
Armourdale, Kans. ; politically Mr. Toll is 
a Democrat. He was married to Miss Mary 
Lee, of St. Joseph county, Mich. ; one child 
has been born, Phillip R., who now operates 
with his father's extensive business interests 
in Kansas City. Office, Postal Telegraph 
building, Kansas City ; residence. Thirty- 
sixth, southwest corner Warwick boulevard. 



OTHA FISHER BALL. 

Otha Fisher Ball, physician, editor; 
born Waterloo, la., June 20, 1875; son of 
Dr. James Moore and Martha G. (Glover) 
Ball; educated at Waterloo, la., 1880-92, 
and special science course, University of 
Wisconsin, 1892-4; graduated at St. Louis 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1897, 
and post graduate medical school. New 
York, 1898. He was married in St. Louis, 
February 19, 1901, to Lenora M., daughter 
of Col. J. J. Clague, U. S. A. ; began prac- 
tice at St. Louis, 1897; editor Interstate 
Medical Journal since 1899; secretary and 
treasurer of the American Association Med- 
ical Editors since 1900; vice-president of 



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the same, 1902-3 ; member of the American 
Medical Association Club, Mercantile Club; 
editorial contributor to various medical 
journals. Residence, 411 N. Newstead ave- 
nue; office, Linmar building, St. Louis. 



WILLIAM WARNER. 

William Warner, lawyer. Born in Wis- 
consin; educated at Lawrence University, 
Wisconsin, and University of Michigan, 
but not graduated ; studied law ; admitted to 
the bar; served 1862-5 in the Thirty-third 
and Forty-fourth Wisconsin regiments; set- 
tled in practice at Kansas City, 1865; city 
attorney, 1867; circuit attorney, 1869; 
mayor, 1871; Republican presidential elec- 
tor, 1872; United States district attorney 
for Western Missouri, 1882-4; re-appointed 
1 898- 1 902; once voted for by Republican 
legislature for United States Senator; 
member of Congress 1885-9; Republican 
candidate for Governor in 1892; delegate to 
National Republican conventions 1872- 
1884, 1888, 1892 and 1896; was first de- 
partment commander of Missouri and na- 
tional commander-in-chief G. A. R., 1888- 
1889. In the celebrated deadlock of the 
Missouri Legislature, 1905, he was elected 
United States Senator. Address, 3315 Main 
street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



WILLIAM STONE WOODS. 

William Stone Woods, banker. Born 
Columbia, Mo.. November i, 1840. Son of 
James Harris Woods; graduated at Mis- 
souri State University, 1861 ; graduated at 



Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
1864; practiced medicine at Middle Grove, 
Mo.; sold goods at Paris, Mo., 1867; in 
1868 with his brother he established a 
wholesale grocery, pending construction of 
the Union Pacific road; in 1869 established 
savings bank at Rocheport, Mo., becoming 
its cashier; member of the firm of Grimes, 
Woods, LaForce & Co., wholesale dry 
goods, Kansas City, Mo., 1881 ; also presi- 
dent Kansas City Savings Association, 
which in 1882 was merged with the Bank 
of Commerce with increased capital, now 
National Bank of Commerce, with $1,000,- 
000 capital and deposits of $30,000,000, of 
which he has since been president. Resi- 
dence, 902 Tracy avenue; office National 
Bank of Commerce, Kansas City, Missouri. 



HUSTON WYETH. 

Huston Wyeth, hardware merchant and 
manufacturer. Born July 8, 1863, St. Jo- 
seph, Mo. Son of William Maxwell Wyeth 
and Eliza (Renick) Wyeth; educated in 
the public schools of St. Joseph, Mo., and 
Racine Business College of Racine, Wis. ; 
in his seventeenth year engaged in the cattle 
business, afterwards becoming manager of 
a retail hardware house, then a member of 
Wyeth Hardware & Manufacturing Co., St. 
Joseph. Mo. ; in 1892 he organized the Ar- 
tesian Ice & Cold Storage Co. and became 
its president and active head; in the Span- 
ish-American war he organized a company 
for that service known as the Wyeth 
Guards, named for him and mustered into 
the service of the United States as Com- 
pany C, Fourth Regiment of Missouri Vol- 
unteers ; he is president of the Humane So- 



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419 



ciety of St. Joseph, Mo. ; in Masonry he is a 
noble of the Ancient Order of the Mystic 
Shrine, a member of Hugh de Payens Com- 
mandery, Knight Templar, and of Mitchell's 
Chapter, Royal Arch Masons; member of 
the K. of P., the Improved Order of Red 
Men and the Benevolent Order of Elks. Mr. 
Wyeth was married to Miss Leli Ballinger, 
April 4, 1883 ; he is the owner of a fine rac- 
ing stable of horses of his own breeding. 
Residence, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



SELDEN P. SPENCER. 

Selden P. Spencer, lawyer and jurist. 
Born in Erie, Pa., September 16, 1862. Son 
of Samuel Selden and Eliza Deborah 
(Palmer) Spencer. His early educational 
training was obtained in the public schools 
of Erie, and he was then fitted for college 
at Hopkins' Grammar School, of New 
Haven, Conn., after which he entered Yale 
College and graduated from that institution 
in 1884. Immediately after his graduation 
he came to St. Louis and entered the St. 
Louis Law School and 1885, a year before 
his graduation, he was admitted to practice 
in the circuit court of St. Louis and immed- 
iately after receiving his bachelor's degree 
he entered upon his professional career 
through which he has achieved great suc- 
cess. In 1895 he was nominated for State 
House of Representatives, on the Republi- 
can ticket, and, being elected to that body, 
took rank among its ablest members. As a 
legislator he was a tireless worker and faith- 
ful and competent public servant. He was 
chairman on the House committee on banks 
and banking, a member of the committee on 
judiciary, ways and means, militia, rules 



and of the "Republican steering commit- 
tee," serving the last named committee as its 
secretary. As a member of the House of 
Representatives, he was recognized as one 
of its leaders, and influenced to a large ex- 
tent its legislation and politics. In 1896 he 
was nominated on the Republican ticket for 
judge of the circunt court of St. Louis, and 
at the ensuing general election was chosen 
to that office. In 1898 he was elected pres- 
ident of the Missouri Bar Association. In 
December of 1898 he was elected secretary 
of the Missouri Conference of Judges. For 
several years he filled the chair of medical 
jurisprudence in Missouri Medical College. 
He is a member of the St. Louis Athletic 
and Mercantile Clubs, and is an active 
worker in church circles. He married Susan 
B. Brookes, daughter of Rev. James H. 
Brookes, D. D. Their children are James 
Brookes, Selden Palmer and Oliver McLean 
Spencer. Business address, 421 Olive 
street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



ROLLA WELLS. 



Rolla Wells, mayor, is a native of St. 
Louis and has always had the interest of 
that city at heart. Born in 1856, he is yet 
a young man, but his early business training 
at the hands of a practical father made 
young Wells eminently fitted for the many 
successful business enterprises he has en- 
gaged in. After finishing his education at 
Washington University, he entered the em- 
ploy of the street railway corporation of 
which his father was at that time president, 
and as soon as his abilities were recognized 
was made assistant superintendent. In 1877 
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position six years, during which time under 
his direction the business grew immeasur- 
ably and Mr. Wells became known as one 
of the leading business men of St. Louis. In 
1883 he retired from the railway company, 
as it had passed into the hands of a syndi- 
cate by purchase. Mr. Wells next became 
interested in the manufacturing of cotton 
and linseed oil, which, with other manu- 
facturing enterprises, occupied the ensuing 
few years, until he found that the failing 
health of his father brought many additional 
responsibilities, and it was not long before 
he was called upon to assume the entire 
management of his father's many business 
and property interests. After the death of 
his father in 1893, Mr. Wells was compelled 
to withdraw from active interest in his man- 
ufacturing enterprises to attend to the ad- 
ministration of the estate as well as other 
business interests of the family. From time 
to time he has been actively interested in 
political affairs and, prior to the stand for 
free coinage of silver at the Democratic con- 
vention at Chicago in 1896, he was a recog- 
nized party leader ; but averse to that part of 
the platform, he became a delegate to the 
national convention at Indianapolis from the 
Twelfth congressional district of Missouri, 
and later was made president of the National 
Democratic club of St. Louis. In 1901 he 
w^as elected mayor of that city, of which 
office he is the present incumbent. Mr. 
Wells has for many years taken an active 
interest in the St. Louis Fair Association 
and Jockey Club. For several terms he was 
president of the association. During the 
late St. Louis Exposition Mayor Wells was 
deeply interested in all matters pertaining 
to its success and personally encouraged the 
Fair workers in all possible ways. Mr. 
Wells was married in 1878 to Miss Jennie 



H. Parker, of this city. They have had a 
family of five children. Residence, 4228 
Lindell boulevard; office, 200 City Hall. 



CHARLES FREDERICK VOGEL. 

Charles Frederick Vogel. Real estate 
and financial agent. Son of John and Anna 
(Christinger) Vogel, w-as born March 22, 
1845, in Neuchatel, Switzerland. He came 
with his parents to St. Louis in the spring 
of 1855, where he received a common-school 
education, and at the Christian Brothers' 
College at St. Louis. In the fall of i860 
he entered the office of O. P. Schneider, 
justice of the peace, later removing to Jus- 
tice McVicker's office. Upon the breaking 
out of the war he enlisted in the Union 
army as drummer boy. Company I, Second 
United States Reserve Corps, Missouri Vol- 
unteers. In 1862 he enlisted and served 
three years in Company E, 29th Regiment 
Missouri Volunteers. He served through- 
out the war and was mustered out in June, 
1865. He returned to St. Louis and stud- 
ied law. In 1866 he accepted a clerkship in 
the police court, holding this position four 
years, when he resigned to take the position 
of deputy county clerk. In the fall of 1878 
he was elected clerk of the circuit court and 
served in this capacity for four years, when 
he was re-elected for another term of four 
years. He declined a third term and im- 
mediately entered the real estate business, in 
which he has been eminently successful. He 
has always taken an active interest in public 
affairs, was one of the promoters of the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, 
and labored hard for its success. He is a 
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A. R. ; in 1897 was commander of the Frank 
P. Blair Post No. i, of the Department of 
Missouri ; ex-treasurer of the Federal Home 
at St. James, Mo. ; past master of Missouri 
Lodge No. I, Ancient Free and Accepted 
Masons; treasurer for twenty-four years; 
he is a Royal Arch Mason, a Knight Tem- 
plar, a Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble of 
the Mystic Shrine; served one term as dep- 
uty grand master of the St. Louis district; 
is also a thirty-second degree Mason ; a 
member of Benton Lodge No. 275, L O. 
O. F., and of Wildey Encampment No. i ; 
grand patriarch of the state of Missouri, 
grand representative, representative from 
Missouri to sovereign grand lodge of the 
order. He was the first brigadier general of 
the Patriarch Militant and a member of the 
Legion of Honor. Mr. Vogel is a member 
of Merchants' Exchange, the Turners' 
Liederkranz, Liedertafel, Orphans' Home, 
Altenheim, the Helvetia Aid Society and 
the Provident Association. He was mar- 
ried September 22, 1869, to Miss Laura 
Fisher; their family consists of three chil- 
dren, one boy and two girls. 



ment, roadways, grading, lagoon, cascades, 
bridges, railroads, etc., Louisiana Purchase 
Exposition. Residence, 4826 Fountain 
avenue; oiifice, 720 Lincoln Trust Company 
buildings, St. Louis. 



RICHARD HARVEY PHILLIPS. 

Richard Harvey Phillips, civil engineer, 
exposition official. Bom Boone county, 
Mo., February 17, 1866; son of Hiram 
Cave and Frances Phillips. Educated in 
Boone county public schools, graduating in 
engineering department. University of Mis- 
souri, 1885. Has been engaged in design 
and construction of water works, sewer sys- 
tem, bridges and viaducts since 1885. Chief 
civil engineer in charge of water supply, fire 
protection, high pressure system, fire depart- 



GEN. JOHN WILLOCK NOBLE. 

Gen. John Willock Noble, a native ot 
Lancaster, O., was born October 26, 183 1. 
His parents were John Noble and Catherine 
McDil, both of good Puritanical stock, who 
gave their son a sound early training, and 
in later years the best education the schools 
and colleges of this country could afford. 
In 185 1 he was graduated from Yale Col- 
lege and immediately entered upon the study 
of law. Shortly after his admission to the 
bar in 1854 he removed his residence to St. 
Louis and began the practice of his profes- 
sion, but the following three years did not 
fulfill his ambitious expectations and he de- 
cided to go to Keokuk, la. In this little city 
his practice throve from the beginning, but 
again his legal career was to be interrupted, 
for just at this time the civil war broke out, 
and the young lawyer, unable to restrain 
his desire to shoulder arms for his country, 
in August, 1 86 1, enlisted in the Third Iowa 
Cavalry Volunteers from whose ranks he 
steadily gained honor and distinction for 
meritorious and gallant conduct in the serv- 
ice of his country. He was breveted colonel 
and later brigadier-general. At the close 
of the war he was appointed United States 
District Attorney at St. Louis, which posi- 
tion he filled with marked ability from 1867 
to 1870. Later he was offered the position 
of solicitor-general by President Grant, but 
declined it to continue his private practice 



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in St. Louis which with his partner, John 
C. Orrick, was at this time one of the largest 
in the city. At the earnest soHcitation of 
his friends, General Noble accepted the flat- 
tering office of Secretary of Interior made to 
him by President Harrison, when forming 
his cabinet in 1891, though loth to give up 
the profession to which he was devoted. 
Upon the expiration of his term of office 
he returned to St. Louis and resumed his 
practice. 



PHILLIP E. CHAPPEL. 

Phillip E. Chappel. Descendant of a 
renowned historic family of England and 
born in Callaway county, Missouri, August 
18, 1837. Son of John and Mary F. 
(Adams) Chappel. The former removed 
from Virginia to Missouri in 1836 and Ije- 
came an extensive land owner. The mater- 
nal grandfather, Phillips Adams, was an 
extensive tobacco planter and served in the 
war of 1812. Phillip E. acquired his edu- 
cation in the University of Missouri at Co- 
lumbia and afterwards engaged in steam- 
boating on the Mississippi river until the 
breaking out of the Civil war. In 1865 he 
engaged in the banking business at Jeffer- 
son City, Missouri, and for twenty years 
was connected with one of the leading finan- 
cial institutions of that section of the State 
— the National Exchange Bank. In 1872, 
he was elected mayor of Jefferson City. In 
1 88 1, he entered upon a four years' term of 
State treasurer and in 1885 retired from 
office witli the good will and confidence of 
the general public. In 1885 removed to 
Kansas City, Mo., and accepted the presi- 
dency of the Citizens' National Bank, serv- 
ing in that position until 1891. when he re- 



signed. He now owns extensive cattle in- 
terests and much valuable property. He 
served as a member of the first board of 
public works of Kansas City, Mo., and was 
elected president of the Kansas City Safe 
Deposit Company, which position he now 
holds. He was married July 3, 1861, to 
Miss Teresa E. Tarlton. Five children 
have been born, three sons and two daugh- 
ters. Mr. Chappel is a member of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity and in politics, a Democrat. 
Business address, Kansas City Safe Deposit 
building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



CHARLES H. HUTTIG. 

Charles H. Huttig, president of the 
Third National Bank of St. Louis; born in 
Muscatine, Iowa; son of Frederick and 
Sophia (Schnell) Huttig. Educated in the 
schools of his native city, afterwards accept- 
ing a position as bookkeeper in a banking 
institution in Muscatine. In his nineteenth 
year became stockholder in the Huttig 
Brothers Manufacturing Company and as- 
sistant manager; 1885 organized in St. 
Louis the Huttig Sash and Door Company 
and became its president and general mana- 
ger; vice-president Third National Bank, St. 
Louis, 1897 elected president. Largely in- 
terested in the lumber industries of the 
northwest. A director in tlie Mississippi 
Valley Trust Company, St. Louis & Sub- 
urban Railroad Company, American Cen- 
tral Fire Insurance Company, vice-president 
Louisiana Purchase Centennial Exposition 
and the Merchants' Exchange. In 1891 
elected member of the St. Louis School 
Board. Democratic in politics. Masonic 
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St. Louis and Noonday clubs. In 1892 
married to Miss Anna Musser, of Musca- 
tine, Iowa. Residence address, Washington 
Terrace; office address, 1206 Old Manches- 
ter road, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MURRAY CARLETON. 

Murray Carleton, president of the Car- 
leton Dry Goods Company; born at Cum- 
berland, Md. His father, Henry D. Carle- 
ton, educated his son in a practical way by 
placing him in a newspaper office when he 
was but thirteen years of age, where he re- 
mained until his eighteenth year. In 1873 
he came to St. Louis, entering the employ of 
the Henry Bell wholesale dry goods house. 
The present Carleton Dry Goods Company 
is the final outgrowth of that beginning 
thirty years ago. Henry Bell was succeeded 
in 1875 by Daniel W. Bell, who died three 
years later. The firm was then reorganized 
by Mr. Bell's surviving partners, Jesse S. 
and John P. Boogher and James H. Wear, 
but later changed to the firm of Wear, 
Boogher & Co. On January i, 1884, Mr. 
Carleton was admitted to the firm. For six 
years the firm continued business under the 
name of Wear & Boogher ; it was then 
changed to the Carleton Dry Goods Com- 
pany, with Murray Carleton as president. 
This is now a wholesale house with a trade 
extending over an immense territory, and 
the success of the house is largely due to Mr. 
Carleton's personal attention to its upbuild- 
ing in the smallest details. It is his life 
work to which he has devoted his entire 
energies, although during the last few years 
he has been prominently identified with 
many other important St. Louis enterprises, 



among which may be mentioned the St. 
Louis Transit Company and the United rail- 
ways of St. Louis. He was a director of the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company 
and an active worker in promoting its suc- 
cess. Mr. Carleton is a member of the Cen- 
tenary Methodist Church and in a quiet way 
has done much for humanitarianism and all 
Christian work. He is superintendent of 
the Sunday-school and a trustee of the St. 
Louis Young Men's Christian Association. 
Mr. Carleton was married, in 1884, to 
Miss Anna Laurie Hays ; his family consists 
of eight children, two sons and six daugh- 
ters. Residence, southwest corner Parkview 
Place and Euclid avenue; office, northwest 
corner Twelfth and Washington avenue, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



ALANSON D. BROWN. 

Alanson D. Brown, president of the 
Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, was born 
in Slyboro, Washington county, N. Y., 
March 21, 1847. His parents were David 
and Malinda (Roblee) Brown. His early 
life was spent on the farm, with a limited 
education acquired by young Brown be- 
tween hours of work and under many diffi- 
culties, as his parents were desirous of him 
being a farmer, while his secret hopes were 
for a business life. He, however, worked 
faithfully for his father while he carefully 
saved his earnings until he had accumulated 
enough to enter a business college; 1864 he 
entered the Lamrey Business College 
at Rutland, Vt., graduating with first honors 
in a class of 125 students. He had no diffi- 
culty in finding employment and soon took 
a clerkship in a prosperous drug and grocery 



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house at Granville. X. Y. He accompanied 
his uncle, Charles \V. Brown, to Columbus, 
Miss., in the summer of 1866, and gave up 
his former position and accepted his uncle's 
offer. Here he remained three years, at the 
end of which time he had risen to a partner- 
ship, and sold out his interest for $13,000. 
He left Columbus and came to St. Louis in 
1872. He immediately founded the business 
which he little knew at that time was des- 
tined to become the largest in the world in 
the shoe line. Accidentally meeting Mr. J. 
M. Hamilton, a man with large experience 
in the boot and shoe business, and who was 
preparing to establish a boot and shoe house 
in St. Louis, they combined their capital and 
entered upon a partnership under the firm 
name of Hamilton & Brown, with a small 
store on Locust street. The business steadily 
grew until it was not long before the Hamil- 
ton-Brown Shoe Company was operating 
four large factories and employing over 
5,000 hands. In 1898 they built a nine- 
story, steel construction, fire-proof building, 
with a frontage of 126 feet and extending 
to St. Charles street, as a permanent home 
for the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company. 
Mr. Brown believes in stimulating the in- 
terest of his employes, and over 130 are on 
the roster of stockholders. The house 
started as a jobbing business only, but in 
1883 it began manufacturing; today it em- 
ploys thousands of workmen in its various 
factories; the factory on Lucas place is con- 
ceded to be one of the most complete plants 
of its kind in the world; erected in 1888 at 
a cost of $100,000, it had an output in 1892 
of over $1,500,000. The utmost cordiality 
exists between employer and employe, and 
at that time over $20,000 of the employes' 
money was drawing 7 per cent interest from 
the company in whose hands they had de- 



posited it. Mr. Brown is a prominent mem- 
ber of the Third Baptist Church. He is 
president of the Missouri Baptist Sanita- 
rium, to which he has at different times 
made large bequests. Li 1877 he was mar- 
ried to Miss Ella Gertrude Bills, daughter of 
Charles C. Bills, for many years a large shoe 
manufacturer of Boston. They have had a 
family of six children, five daughters and a 
son, who has recently married. Residence 
address, 4616 Lindell boulevard; office ad- 
dress, southeast corner Twelfth and Wash- 
ington avenue, St. Louis, Missouri. 



CHARLES P. JOHNSON. 

Charles P. Johnson, lawyer; born Janu- 
ary 18, 1836, in Lebanon, St. Clair county, 
111. He was educated in the public schools 
and at McKendree College. He attributes 
a great part of his practical education, how- 
ever, to his experience, when but eighteen, 
in the printing trade, which he learned, and 
later published a weekly paper in the town 
of Sparta, 111. He came to St. Louis in 
1855 and was admitted to the bar two years 
later. He became interested in politics, and 
in the spring of 1859 was elected to the office 
of city attorney and served the term of two 
years with great credit to his party. When 
the war broke out he enlisted in the Third 
Missouri Regiment and served as lieutenant 
for three months ; then, because of ill health, 
returned to his practice in St. Louis. In 
1862 he modestly declined the nomination 
for congressman, but was afterwards elected 
to the Missouri Legislature, where he advo- 
cated strongly for emancipation, and had the 
honor of presenting the bill for the calling 
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tution ; this bill afterwards became a law. 
In 1866 he was appointed circuit or state's 
attorney for the city and county of St. Louis 
and, during his constituency of six years, 
laid the foundation of his remarkably suc- 
cessful career as a criminal lawyer. In 1872 
Mr. Johnson was elected lieutenant gov- 
ernor on the Liberal ticket, which was his 
last political office, as upon the expiration of 
his term he resumed his law practice in con- 
nection with his brother, John D., who took 
up the civil cases of the firm, while Governor 
Johnson gave his undivided time to the 
criminal practice for which he is so emi- 
nently fitted. Governor Johnson has figured 
conspicuously in all social reforms connected 
with the betterment of his adopted home, 
vigorously fighting all social evils threaten- 
ing the purity of a municipality. He was 
married to Miss Estelle Parker, of Wash- 
ington City; to this marriage four children 
were born. After the death of his first wife 
he was married to Miss Louise Stephens, of 
St. Louis. He is one of the faculty of 
Washington University, and as a recogni- 
tion of his eminence at the bar and his public 
services, McKendree College, his alma 
mater, has honored him with the degree of 
doctor of law. Residence address, 4300 
Washington avenue ; office address, Carleton 
building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



MYRON M. BUCK. 



Myron M. Buck, director of the Bank 
of Commerce, was born in Manchester, On- 
tario county, N. Y., January 16, 1838. His 
ancestors settled in central New York when 
the country was wild and uncultivated, his 



grandfather, Thdophilus Short, having 
been a member of the "Old Holland Land 
Purchase Company," which, attracted by the 
fertility of the soil in the undeveloped dis- 
trict, purchased a greater portion of central 
New York. 

The company at once proceeded to estab- 
lish homes for the pioneers who were its 
leading spirits. The venture was a daring 
one, but it proved so successful that not only 
did the settlers establish homes for them- 
selves, but they were able to leave valuable 
legacies to their descendants. His maternal 
grandfather was one of the most active of 
the settlers and, consequently, became very 
prominent. The manufacturing town of 
Shortsville, on the New York Central road, 
was named after this gentleman. 

It was here that Myron M. Buck, the 
founder of one of the largest railroad supply 
houses in the country, was born and brought 
up. He received a first-class common school 
education, and at the age of eighteen was in 
a position to make his way in the world. He 
traveled throughout western New York and 
Canada, and finally located in New York 
City, where he secured employment in a 
a manufacturing establishment. His early 
inclination was to build up a business for 
himself, and almost from the first he showed 
a taste for manufacturing which would have 
done credit to a man twice his age. 

A man of these tastes and abilities nat- 
urally looks west for a location, and he spent 
three years in Chicago, where he acquired 
much valuable information. In 1858 he re- 
moved to St. Louis, where he engaged in 
the manufacturing of car trimmings. Act- 
ing on the policy that what a man wants 
done well he must do himself. Mr. Buck 
gave his entire personal attention to the 
work, and was soon the owner as well as 



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manager of a depot for the sale of all kinds 
of railroad supplies. 

This was the first establishment of its 
kind in the Mississippi Valley, and it has 
held its own against every competitor and 
rival. It attracted attention to St. Louis in 
every practical manner during the extensive 
railroad building period of the seventies, 
and the amount of business that it has 
brought here has been very large indeed. As 
already stated, the house is now one of the 
largest in the country, and it is the admira- 
tion of the city of St. Louis for several 
reasons. 

He has had control of a number of enor- 
mous contracts, all of which have been car- 
ried out promptly without a hitch; and if 
ever a man came west with the intention of 
growing up with the country, and doing so, 
that man was certainly Mr. M. M. Buck. 

Among the many institutions with which 
Mr. Buck is actively connected, and of which 
he is a director, might be mentioned the 
Union Trust Company, the Continental Na- 
tional Bank and the Commercial Bank of 
St. Louis. He is also a member of the Mer- 
cantile, Noonday, St. Louis, Commercial, 
and Fair Ground Jockey clubs. 

Although a thorough St. Louisan, Mr. 
Buck does not forget the home of his youth. 
He owns a very handsome villa in Clifton 
Springs, one of the best health resorts in 
New York state, where his family spend 
several months every year. Speaking of 
this resort to a friend, Mr. Buck said: "A 
few weeks sojourn in the fragrant valley in- 
spires me with new life and health to enter 
upon the duties of life once more." 

Among the many generous acts of Mr. 
Buck may be mentioned the donation to the 
town of Shortsville, N. Y., in September, 
1890, of a free library. The building is of 



brick and stone, verj' handsomely erected 
and splendidly equipped within. Not being 
satisfied with donating the building, he 
stocked it with books and periodicals of 
nearly every description, and has endowed 
the institution so liberally that the income 
will be more than sufficient to pay the run- 
ning expenses. In doing this he has estab- 
lished a monument to the memory of a name 
that has been honored by three successive 
generations, and he has also made a number 
of friends for St. Louis among the descend- 
ants of the old settlers of the Holland pur- 
chase property. Residence, Grand Avenue 
Hotel ; office address, 420 Olive street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



HORACE AUGUSTUS SWIFT. 

Horace Augustus Swift, president of the 
Horace A. Swift Ice Company, was born in 
Zanesville. Ohio, July i, 1833, where he at- 
tended school until the age of fifteen. His 
father, Richard S. Swift, a native of New 
Jersey, owned a large flouring mill and a 
line of canal boats on the Ohio canal, used 
for shipping flour to New York, before the 
days of railroads. His mother was Sarah 
Senter, a native of New Hampshire. After 
leaving school, Mr. Swift worked in a 
wholesale notion store two years and later 
went to southern Ohio, working for an uncle 
on a farm. He then went to Portsmouth, 
Ohio, where he spent three years learning 
brick masonry, teaching school in winter ; 
from there he went to Jackson, Ohio, and 
engaged in contracting, being the contractor 
for the Methodist Episcopal cliurch, a large 
mill, a block of store buildings and a number 
of private dwellings. In 1855 he built a 



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court house at McArthurs Town, Vinton 
county, and later at Point Pleasant, Va. 
(which was burned by United States sol- 
diers during the war, but the vaults were so 
substantial that not a paper was destroyed, 
and in rebuilding the old walls were used). 
From Zanesville he went to Keokuk, Iowa, 
in the fall of 1856, and after working at his 
business (contracting) two years, he came 
to Jefferson City (May 26, 1858), continu- 
ing in this business. In 1859 he built, under 
contract, two additions to the Insane Asy- 
lum at Fulton, Mo. He served a short time 
in the Home Militia. Mr. Swift was ap- 
pointed warden of the Missouri penitentiary 
(January 4, 1865) by Governor Fletcher, 
which position he held four years. He also 
served eight years as judge of the County 
Court, his majority at the election one term 
being 512. He was married December, 
1857, at Oconomowoc, Wis., to Miss Ada 
F. Jordan, of North Adams, Mass. To this 
union has been born six children : Emma is 
at home ; Grace is the wife of W. S. Fergu- 
son, foreman at Buxton & Skinner's, of St. 
Louis; Maude is the wife of E. E. Turner, 
roadmaster for the M., K. & T. at Mokane, 
Mo. ; Albert D. is assistant postmaster of 
Jefferson City ; Ulysses S. died at the age of 
twenty-six ; Edson B. died in infancy. Mr. 
Swift is engaged in the ice business and 
farming. His elegant home is on his farm 
in the west suburbs of the city. He is a 
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
the A., F. & A. M., and the A. O. U. W. 
He is a man of sound judgment, a patron of 
education and is deeply interested in all that 
concerns the welfare of his city and county. 
In filling his duties as county judge he bent 
his energies to the improvement of the 
country roads and many miles of this much 
needed work has been completed as a result. 



His influence contributed greatly to the suc- 
cessful completion of the substantial steel 
bridge across the Moreau creek, and he is 
ambitious for Cole county to rank first in 
Missouri in regard to modern improve- 
ments. Few men in Jefferson City have had 
so wide an experience as Mr. Swift or are 
blessed with a more liberal or progressive 
spirit ; under his direction a number of the 
best buildings which adorn the Capital City 
were erected. He has often been called 
upon on account of his wide and broad ex- 
perience, to inventory the state property at 
the penitentiary, in which capacity he has 
served four administrations. He has always 
been a generous and liberal supporter of 
every measure to advance the Capital City. 
Business address, 100 East High street, Jef- 
ferson City, Missouri. 



DAVID SOMMERS. 

David Sommers, president of the D. 
Sommers Furniture Company, was born Oc- 
tober I, 1867, son of S. and C. (Burke) 
Sommers. Educated in the public schools 
and high schools of Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. 
Sommers began his business career in a 
wholesale house; next assistant bookkeeper 
in furniture store, then started into business 
for himself. He conducts one of the largest 
and most complete furniture houses of its 
kind in St. Louis, or even the entire west. 
Since taking up his residence in the state of 
Missouri, in 1890, he has devoted his en- 
tire time and attention to the business of this 
company. The company was incorporated 
July, 1904, and he became its president at 
that date, and is composed of the following 
named gentlemen : David Sommers, presi- 



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dent and treasurer; Fred Warnold, vice- 
president and secretary. He is a member 
of the Columbian Club; a member of the 
Masonic order; K. of P., and in religion he 
is an Israelite, and in politics he is a Repub- 
lican. Married, October 22, 1901, in St. 
Louis, Mo., to Miss Blanche M. Drey. Busi- 
ness address, 1124 to 1130 Olive; residence 
address, 4362 Pine, St. Louis, Missouri. 



THOMAS R. ASHBROOK. 

Thomas R. Ashbrook, comptroller of the 
city of St. Joseph, is a man of a high order 
of business ability and has efficiently dis- 
charged the duties of this office, as well as 
other offices with which he has been honored 
in the past. He is one of the local leaders 
of the Republican party and through his able 
conduct of affairs enjoys the support of 
many of the opposition. 

Mr. Ashbrook was born at Asheville, 
Ohio, December 9, 1851, that town having 
been laid out by his father at an early day. 
His parents came to St. Joseph in 1858, and 
resided here the remainder of their lives, the 
mother dying in April, 1896, and the father 
in 1898. Thomas R. Ashbrook accompa- 
nied his parents to St. Joseph in 1858 and 
has made this city his home ever since. He 
was graduated from the St. Joseph High 
School in 1873, and afterwards spent two 
years in Phillips Academy at Exeter, N. H. 
He early evinced a liking for politics and in 
1886 was elected on the Republican ticket as 
alderman from the Second ward. In 1894 
he was elected city auditor of St. Joseph, to 
which office he was re-elected in 1896. and 
again in 1898. He was elected to his pres- 
ent office, that of comptroller, in the spring 



of 1904. on the Republican ticket, receiving 
the handsome majority of 447 over A. W. 
Horn, the Democratic nominee. He has 
been a success in politics, his personal popu- 
larity giving him the solid vote of his party 
and many from the opposing party. 

Mr. Ashbrook was united in marriage, 
in 1880, with Emma S. Mast, and with his 
family of three children resides in a com- 
fortable home at No. 1921 Jones street. 
Business address, City Hall building, St. 
Joseph, Missouri. 



JOHN FRANCISCO RICHARDS. 

John Francisco Richards. Hardware 
Merchant. Born October 23, 1834, in Bath 
county. Virginia, son of Walter and Nancy 
(Mayse) Richards, both of whom were na- 
tives of Virginia, the latter's father, Joseph 
Mayse, was an active participant in the In- 
dian wars in Virginia. John F. was educated 
in the public schools of St. Louis, and at- 
tended an academy at Pleasant Hill, Mo. 
He came to Missouri with his parents in 
1886, his father dying a year later at St. 
Charles, Mo.; the mother lived in Boon\ille 
for several years, and died in 1848 at her 
home in St. Louis. After his mother's death 
John F. worked hard for a living, and for 
financial means that would enable him to ac- 
quire an education. The years 1850-51-52 
were spent in a store at Sibley, Mo. In 1853- 
54 he was at Port Laramie. Wyoming, em- 
ployed by a trader to transact business with 
the Sioux Indians. Afterward he was clerk 
on a Missouri river steamer. In 1854 he 
was employed in a hardware house in St. 
Louis, remaining in this service until 1857, 
and in 1857 he moved to Leavenworth, Kan- 



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sas, where he engaged in the hardware busi- 
ness on his own account, and his store was 
a pioneer house of its time in that city. Mr. 
Richards was in the hardware business at 
Leavenworth from 1855 to 1857, and when 
he left that city, and removed to Kansas 
City he was at the head of the large whole- 
sale and retail establishment of J. F. Richard 
& Company. In 1875 he established a 
liouse in Kansas City, near the corner of 5th 
and Delaware streets. The Richard & 
Conover Hardware Co., was organized and 
incorporated in 1881, and is one of the larg- 
est establishments of its kind in the West. 
Mr. Richards disposed of his interests in 
Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1854, and removed 
to Kansas City in the year of 1857, after a 
residence in Leavenworth for forty years. In 
banking circles he holds the position of vice- 
president of the First National Bank, of Kan- 
sas City, having been identified with it at its 
organization, and has been a director ever 
since in that institution. He saw short but 
lively military service during the war, 
and was at the battle of Westport, 
which occurred October 23, 1864, as a 
member of Company C, 19th Kansas Mili- 
tia. He also participated in the battle of the 
Little Blue, below Independence, Mo., Octo- 
ber 21, 1864, and has good reasons to re- 
member the sufferings which attended the 
memorable raids of General Price and his 
men. Mr. Richard is a believer in Demo- 
cratic principles. He is a member of the 
Masonic Order, and a Knight Templar. He 
was married June 16, 1897, to Martha A. 
Harrelson, of Sibley, Mo., the daughter of 
Joseph A. Harrelson, an early resident of 
West Missouri. Her death occurred in 
1874, and to them were born seven children, 
of whom four are now living: May, now 
Mrs. John G. Waples, of Denver, Colorado ; 



Helen, now Mrs. J. E. Logan, wife of Dr. 
Joseph E. Logan, of Kansas City ; Walter B., 
secretary of the Richard & Conover Hard- 
ware Co., and George B., also with the com- 
pany of which his father is president. Mr. 
Richards was again married in 1887 to Mrs. 
L. M. Durfee of Fairport, N. Y. Mr. Rich- 
ards has resided at Kansas City since 1887, 
at 3100 Troost Avenue. 



WALTER S. DICKEY. 

Walter S. Dickey, well known as one of 
the stanch and progressive business men of 
Kansas City, Mo., was reared and educated 
in Toronto, Canada. He came to Kansas 
City in 1885, and immediately identified him- 
self with the Republican party and as such 
served on the city committee in 1886. The 
following year he went to Independence and 
remained there until 1898, when he returned 
to Kansas City, which has since been his 
home. During this time he familiarized 
himself with state and national public affairs 
and exhibited genius for the arts of self 
government. Finally, in 1900, he was elected 
a delegate from the Fifth congressional dis- 
trict to the Republican National Convention 
at Philadelphia ; and was still further hon- 
ored by being chosen as Missouri's member 
on the vice-presidential notification commit- 
tee. In July, 1900, in company with that 
committee he visited Mr. Roosevelt at Oyster 
Bay to inform him officially of his nomina- 
tion. In July, 1902, Mr, Dickey was elected 
a member at large of the State Republican 
committee and a member of that party's 
executive and financial committees. This 
prominent and emphatic political preferment 
signified the strength of Mr. Dickey in the 



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councils of his party. He is a stanch friend 
of law, order, education, morality and good 
government, and is a credit to the Dominion 
at the North which sent him to the States. 
He has shown a high order of genius for 
commercial pursuits, and since he has been 
in this country has built up a large profitable 
business, one of the largest in the entire 
West. He is president of the W. S. Dickey 
Clay Manufacturing Company, that sells its 
product over many of the western states. He 
is a charter member of the Commercial club, 
and one of the founders of the Manufactur- 
ers Association. The Dominion of Canada is 
welcome to send many more such men to the 
United States. His business address, New 
York Life building; residence, 1506 East 
Eighth street, Kansas City, Missouri. 



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DELL J. DEAN. 

Dell J. Dean, of Kansas City, Mo., presi- 
dent of the Baltimore Hotel Company, and 
manager of the Baltimore Hotel, was born 
in the state of New York, the city of Sher- 
man being the site of his birth. He was 
there reared and educated, and upon reach- 
ing years of maturity was for a time con- 
nected with the Dean House of that city. In 
1888 he came west to Wichita, Kans, and 
there, associated with Mr. Stough, opened 
the Carey Hotel, but sold out a year later and 
opened the Metropole hotel in Wichita. In 
1890 he again changed and opened the Still- 
well House in Pittsburg, Kan. In 1894 he 
bought an interest with Mr. Ewing in the 
Savoy Hotel, of Kansas City, and with him 
conducted the Savoy, the Stillwell and the 
Interstate, the latter being located at Fort 
Scott. In 1896 they opened the Metropole 



at St. Joseph, and in 1899 opened the Balti- 
more in Kansas City, the latter not being 
surpassed in appointment by any hotel in 
the West. In 1900 Mr. Dean bought out 
Mr. Ewing's interest, and with his brother 
organized the Baltimore Hotel Company. A 
little later they bought the Midland Hotel, 
also one of the finest hostelries in the West. 
Mr. Dean is considered an expert in hotel 
management. His various business advent- 
ures have abundantly proved his exceptional 
skill to please the taste of the traveling pub- 
lic. Mr. Dean has become thoroughly iden- 
tified with the public life and interests of this 
city. In 1903 he became a director of the 
National Bank of Commerce. He is a mem- 
ber of the Kansas City Board of World's 
Fair Commissioners ; is treasurer of the J. 
R. Crow Coal Company; is a thirty-second 
degree Mason ; a member of the Commercial 
club, and of the Manufacturers and Mer- 
chants association. Business address, Balti- 
more Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri. 



FREDERICK STERLING DOGGETT. 

Frederick Sterling Doggett, of Kansas 
City, Mo., was born in Chicago, March i, 
1856. He received his early education in the 
private schools of that city, and later attended 
the old Chicago University, but left that in- 
stitution at the age of seventeen years. For 
the following three years he was in the em- 
ploy of the Chicago-Sheffield Steel Company. 
In 1878 he went to Kansas City, but before 
doing so was interested in mining and other 
enterprises in Colorado. Upon reaching 
Kansas City he secured work in the office of 
the L'nion Pacific Railway and remained 
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he procured a position with the Chicago & 
Alton Railroad, and in 1881 was promoted 
to the office of general western freight agent, 
resigning from the railroad service in 1886. 
Since this time he has been engaged in busi- 
ness for himself, has acquired an excellent 
standing in "The Metropolis of the West," 
is a prominent and active member of the 
Commercial Club, Kansas City Club, and 
similar organizations. In 1900 was elected 
a director of the Convention Hall Company, 
and was chosen chairman of the board of di- 
rectors of that organization in 1903. He is 
president of the Priests of Pallas association, 
is a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight 
Templar and a Shriner, Business address, 
Blossom House ; residence, 1032 Pennsyl- 
vania avenue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



ALFRED E. WOOLF. 

Alfred E. Woolf, vice-president of the 
Morris Woolf Silk Company, was born June 
21, 1869, at Springfield, Mo. Educated in 
the public schools, one year in High School, 
also three years in Training School, St. 
Louis, graduating in 1887. He began his 
business life as entry clerk at Rosenheini- 
Levis Millinery Company ; afterwards with 
Rice-Stix Dry Goods Company as stock 
clerk; then Geo. Woolf, Son & Co., and 
later Morris Woolf Silk Company. From 
February i, 1899, to 1904, the firm was 
Morris Woolf and A. E. Woolf, partners. 
Afterwards incorporated under the name, 
Morris Woolf Silk Company, jobbers of 
silks and velvets. At time of corporation A. 
E. Woolf was elected vice-president, and 
holds this position at the present time. He 
is a member of the Columbian Club, Manual 



Training School Alumni, H. B. S. Society, 
Y. M. H. A. Society, Missouri Lodge, No. 
22, L O. B. B. In politics he is independent. 
Business address, 700 and 702 Washington 
avenue; residence address, 51 16 Fairmont, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



OLIVER HAYS DEAN. 

Oliver Hays Dean, was born December 
7, 1845, ^t Washingtonville, Montour coun- 
ty, Pennsylvania. In the paternal line he is 
descended from English and Scotch stock, 
and from his mother he inherits Dutch blood. 
He was the son of the Hon. Joseph Dean, a 
worthy and distinguished citizen of Montour 
county, and who was a soldier in the war of 
181 2, being a commissioned officer under 
General Scott. He acquired his education in 
the Tuscarora Academy, Central Pennsyl- 
vania, where he acted as a tutor in Latin, 
and the Michigan University, graduating in 
that university in the class of 1868, and in 
the law department in 1870. In 1870 he lo- 
cated permanently in Kansas City, Mo., and 
the same year formed a partnership with 
Judge William Holmes, which lasted until 
1881, when he associated himself with Chas. 
O. Tichenor and Major William Warner, 
the firm being Tichenor, Warner & Dean. In 
1883 ^f'"- Tichenor withdrew, and the firm 
became Warner & Dean, and so remained 
until 1846, when James Hagerman became a 
member of the firm. In 1888 W. D. Mc- 
Leod was admitted as a partner. In 1893 
Hagerman withdrew, and Judge James Gib- 
son took his place in the firm which became 
Warner, Dean, Gibson, McLeod & Holden. 
Mr. Dean has been president of the South 
Western Alumni Association of the Univer- 



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sity of Michigan. He has also occupied the 
position of President of the Kansas City Bar 
Association. Business address, 524 Keith 
& Perry building, Kansas City, Missouri. 



ANDREW REASON LYON. 

Andrew Reason Lyon. Lawyer. The 
Kansas City Bar can boast of a long list of 
prominent and distinguished men who have 
carved out an enviable career in the practice 
of their most honorable profession. Some 
have emerged from an obscure beginning 
and ripened into an eloquent advocate or a 
profound reasoner or a safe counsellor. Some 
have occupied exalted positions on the bench, 
and many, both living and dead, are fair 
samples of Missouri's great and noble jur- 
ists and lawyers. It is but just and right to 
reflect the light of some of the living prac- 
titioners, and we can safely put in this 
class the • name of Andrew Reason Lyon. 
Born September 16, 1856, in Knox county, 
Mo. A son of Eli and Alvira (Holmes) 
Lyon, natives of the state of Kentucky, and 
spent his early boyhood on his father's farm. 
He bears the same name as the distinguished 
Union General of the late Civil war, and it 
is not unlikely they are distantly related, as 
the families of that name all claim through 
Scotch and English ancestry. The early edu- 
cation of Andrew Reason Lyon was acquired 
in the public and high school of his native 
state, and at the State Normal School at 
Kirksville, Mo., later graduating in the Uni- 
versity of Missouri in the class of 1881. His 
ambition was to become an honorable coun- 
sellor of the law, and he sought every oppor- 
tunity to consummate his greatest desire, and 
confidently and reliantly he proceeded to carry 



out his determination in this line. He began 
first, teaching school for a short time. His 
activity in this line was appreciated so well 
that he was elected superintendent of schools 
of Knox county, Mo., which he served for 
two years. He was a member of the firm 
of Holmes & Ward, Lyon & Ryland, Lyon 
& Snell. Since that time has been alone in 
the practice. For so many years Mr. Lyon 
has been actively engaged in the practice of 
law in Kansas City that a modest summing 
up of his endeavors would not be inappro- 
priate, at least in fixing some data that may 
be preserved for the future of such men 
whose worth and work entitle them to recog- 
nition, not only in their own locality, but 
throughout the entire state. Casually, with- 
out a desire for any sought characterization, 
we have been glad to learn some points of 
the social and business characteristics of An- 
drew R. Lyon. We quote what an able prac- 
titioner of the Kansas City Bar says of him : 
"I have known Mr. Lyon for many years, 
and take great pleasure in saying that he is 
an able lawyer, and an upright and honorable 
Christian gentleman." 

Mr. Lyon has always been a believer in 
Democratic doctrine. The principles taught 
by Jefferson, Jackson and Tilden are good 
enough for him. Quoting his own remarks, 
"He has never desired to seek renown and 
distinction at the expense of neglecting his 
own legitimate business." He has been solely 
wed to his legal business, which has con- 
sisted of a large, lucrative civil practice, and 
practice of law at the present time. No 
man takes more of an interest in his party 
than he does, yet he has never sought office 
for these reasons. Possessing great social 
qualities and many friends in a public way, 
yet in a private way he is a lover of the home 
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a member of the Methodist Episcopal church 
south, the church lie and his family worship 
at, and for many years has been a trustee and 
steward, it has been a pleasure in assuming 
his part of the burden in promoting religious 
work. Mr. Lyon is a member of the Modern 
Woodmen of America, the only order he is 
a member of, and he was the tirst treasurer 
of the first lodge ever organized in Kansas 
City. 

Mr. Lyon was married, January 21, 
1885, in Alton, 111., to Miss Elizabeth Stan- 
ford, a daughter of Horace Stanford. Her 
people were highly respected Yankees of 
Boston, Mass. Mrs. Lyon attended the Bos- 
ton Conservatory of Music, and has received 
a liberal musical education, and has taught 
the same for many years with great success. 
Three children have been born, Andrew 
Stanford, Marion and Alfred May, all re- 
ceiving a liberal education. The parents of 
Mrs. Lyon on the paternal line were said 
to have participated in the Revolutionary 
war, and she would be eligible to the Society 
of the Daughters of the American Revolu- 
tion for the state of Missouri. Business ad- 
dress, "/iz New York Life building; resi- 
dence address, 102 Clinton Place, Kansas 
City, Missouri. 



JOHN ANDREW FRENCH, M. D. 

John Andrew French, M. D., formerly a 
member of the faculty of the Northwestern 
Medical College at St. Joseph, Missouri, and 
the founder and present owner of the St. 
Joseph School and Hospital for Training 
Nurses, is one of Missouri's eminent and 
successful medical practitioners. Dr. French 
was born November 8. 1853, in Gentrvville. 

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Gentry county, Missouri, and is a son of 
William L and Sophia O. (Reed) French. 

Dr. French was educated primarily in the 
public schools of his locality and was eight- 
een years of age when he entered a drug 
store, at Moberly. There he became deeply- 
interested in medicine and entered upon its 
study, under the direction of Dr. John T. 
Cox, learning in the meantime the practical 
use of drugs in his daily vocation. Li the 
winter of 1878-79 he entered the Keokuk 
Medical College, at Keokuk, Iowa, and in 
the following spring went to St. Louis, pur- 
suing his medical studies in the Missouri 
Medical College, and was graduated in the 
class of 1880, from the St. Joseph Hospital 
Medical College. 

Entering immediately into practice, the 
young physician met with immediate success 
and now controls probably the largest pri- 
vate practice in St. Joseph, of more than 
100,000 inhabitants. Dr. French took post- 
graduate courses in the New York Polyclinic 
College and Hospital and has been identified 
with advanced medical science for a number 
of years. He became a member of the 
faculty of the justly celebrated Northwest- 
ern Medical College of St. Joseph, and was a 
member of its directing board. The fine col- 
lege building on the corner of Eighth and 
Sylvania street, St. Joseph, was erected by 
him the sum of $30,000 being expended on 
this noble structure, an ornament to the city. 
He was its secretary and lecturer on diseases 
of women and clinical surgery. He has been 
prominent in city affairs, where they have 
been connected with anything pertaining to 
the public health, and has served two terms 
as city health ofificer. 

Perhaps Dr. French is as well known as 
a lecturer and in the newspaper field as any 
other, his versatile talents enabling him to 



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make a success of almost everything he un- 
dertakes. In the lecture field he has been for 
years in great demand and in this connection 
is widely known all over the state. He is 
both editor and proprietor of the St. Joseph 
Medical Journal, a paper local only in name 
and widely circulated. Formerly he was one 
of the editors of the Western ^ledical and 
Surgical Reporter, of this city, and holds an 
important place in the ranks of medical 
writers. Dr. French is a valued member of 
the Buchanan County Medical Association, 
of the District Medical Association of North- 
western Missouri, of the State Medical, and 
of the Missouri Valley Medical Association. 
In 1893, ^t Moberly, Missouri, he was elected 
chairman of the North Missouri Medical 
Association. Dr. French is assistant sur- 
geon, with the rank of captain, on the staff 
of Col. Joseph Hansen, Missouri National 
Guard, his commission being dated July 12, 
1882, and signed by Governor Thomas C. 
Crittenden. 

In addition to the above-named just 
claims to professional prominence, Dr. 
French is still further interested in medical 
science and educational work. Perhaps no 
one except the trained physician can ever 
feebly understand how the medical man's 
best efiforts are handicapped and indeed, often 
entirely thwarted by the ignorant care given 
a patient after his work is well done, and tlie 
crying need, wherever tliere is illness, for 
the competent nurse. In his large practice. 
Dr. French felt this need so keenly that it 
became one of his cherished desires to found 
an institution where nurses could be trained. 
He recognized that while this training would 
offer a profession to those who took ad\ant- 
age of it, it must come within the financial 
resources of the class which would most 
likely become students. After much con- 



sideration, his plans were laid and became a 
fact by the erection, in 1888, of the imposing 
four and five story building at Nos. 492-496 
South Eighth street, St. Joseph. This hand- 
some modern building contains thirty-seven 
rooms and was designed for hospital and 
college purposes and Ijears the name of the 
St. Joseph School and Hospital for Training 
Nurses, and he is now erecting a new build- 
ing twenty blocks north of the present ter- 
minus of the street car system, on an eighty- 
acre tract, on which there are already two 
buildings. This new structure is to be used 
as a sanitarium for nervous diseases. 

Dr. French has surrounded himself with 
a faculty that is comprised of the leading 
physicians and surgeons of the West. The 
class of 1902-03 consisted of four graduates 
and the current class will be much larger. 
Tile course of instruction includes a liberal 
medical education, lectures being given upon 
the duties of a nurse in cases of fever, con- 
tagious diseases, general surgery, obstetrics, 
diseases of woman and children, diseases of 
tlie eye and ear and hygiene. Practical ex- 
perience in obstetrical cases, general cases 
and outdoor practice will be included, while 
other lectures on anatomy, physiology and 
the management of the insane will follow. A 
directory of nurses for graduates, is kept and 
ajjplication at the institution will bring swift- 
ly to the sick bed a careful, thoroughly com- 
petent helper. Some of the graduates of tiiis 
school are now filling positions of great re- 
sponsibility in distant parts of the countrj\ 
Dr. French has every reason to look back 
upon what he has accomplished with no little 
pride. 

On February 12. 1S84. Dr. French was 
married to Kate V. Lewis, who is a daughter 
of Hugh Lewis, a large farmer of that sec- 
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viz. : Louis Andrew, Valiant D. D., ]\Ielvin, 
and Kate Marie. 

Both he and his accomphshed wife are 
members of the Christian Church of St. Jo- 
seph, in which connection they are vahied 
very higlily. Dr. French is a Democrat po- 
htically, stanchly supporting the party's prin- 
ciples and candidates. His fraternal associa- 
tions include the Masons, Odd Fellows, 
Knights and Ladies of Security, Woodmen 
of the World, the Red Men and Court of 
Honor, and has been medical examiner for 
all these insurance organizations, carrying a 
personal insurance himself of $13,000. 

With all these varied interests claiming 
his attention, Dr. French finds some time for 
social enjoyment and his friends know him 
to be a genial, hospitable host. He is hon- 
ored and respected in a degree beyond that 
of the ordinary physician because he pos- 
sesses those qualities of mind and character 
which attract men and inspire their confi- 
<lence. Duty has been one of his watch- 
words and he has followed its path from boy- 
hood when, uncomplainingly he took upon 
his shoulders a large part of the rearing of 
his father's family. He is truly an honored 
citizen of St. Joseph. His business address 
is 402 South Eighth street. 



CHARLES CAMPBELL. 

Charles Campbell. Merchant. Born in 
New York in 1847. Son of Ambrose and 
Chalista E. (Manley) Campl>ell. Educated 
in the county schools. In 1904 vice-presi- 
dent of the Fidelity Trust Company, Kan- 
sas City, Mo. ; president of the Campbell 
Glass & Paint Company ; vice-president of 
the Central Coal & Coke Company; vice- 



president and treasurer of the Louisiana & 
Te.xas Lumber Company. Is a member of the 
Commercial and Kansas City Clubs, and he 
affiliates with the Republican party. Was 
married to Miss Cynthia Townsend, in Oc- 
tober, 1884, in Warren, III. Five children 
have been born: Robert John, Herbert C, 
Paul T., Philip D. and Keith Campbell. 
Residence address, 922 Harrison street ; bus- 
iness address. Fidelity Trust Company, Kan- 
sas City, Missouri. 



DA\TD ROWLAND FRANCIS. 

David Rowland Francis, president of the 
Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was born at 
Richmond, Madison county, Ky., October i, 
1S50. Son of John B. and Eliza Caldwell 
(Rowland) Francis. He received his early 
education in the Richmond Academy and 
after removing to St. Louis. Mo., in 1866, 
entered Washington University, where he 
was graduated in 1870. He began his ca- 
reer as a clerk in the mercantile business, 
obtained an interest in the wholesale gro- 
cery and commission house of Shryock & 
Rowland. 1877 established an independent 
commission house and seven years later 
founded the well known firm of D. R. 
Francis & Bro. He became vice-president 
of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange in 
1883, and in 1884 was made its president. 
He is a director of the Mississippi Valley 
Trust Co., vice-president of the Merchants' 
Laclede National Bank, and a large stock- 
holder in the St. Louis and Colorado Rail- 
way Company. He has been prominent in the 
promotion of many charitable enterprises in 
the city of his residence. In 1885 Mr. Fran- 
cis was the Democratic candidate for mayor 



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of St. Louis; he overcome an adverse ma- 
jority of 14,000 at the preceding election; he 
was successfully elected by a majority of 
1,200. In the reform brouglit about by him 
his administration was strongly endorsed. 
In 1888 he was elected by the Democratic 
party as Governor of Missouri and his rec- 
ord while he remained chief executive was 
highly satisfactory to all. Retiring from 
office at the close of his gubernatorial term 
in 1893 'i^ resumed his business affairs 
with his former enterprise and success. In 
1896 he was called to the cabinet of Presi- 
dent Cleveland as Secretary of the Interior 
and discharged the duties of that position 
with the same energy and thoughtfulness 
previously displayed. Of his personal traits 
he is an attractive public speaker ; possesses 
a charming personality and displays a 
strong force of character in all of his public 
utterances. When the St. Louis \\'orld"s 
Fair was first considered Governor Francis 
was called by common consent to head this 
gigantic enterprise. He was one of the 
first to advance in 1889, a movement to 
commemorate the centennial of the Louisi- 
ana Purchase and being one of the first to 
advance the same. The Missouri Histor- 
ical Society took up the subject in 1889. On 
January 10. a convention was called by Gov- 
ernor Stephens, the sum of $5,000,000 was 
raised by subscription and the city of St. 
Louis issued $5,000,000 in bonds, while the 
United States government, by act of Con- 
gress, added $5,000,000 more to the fund 
in 1901. The State of Missouri appropri- 
ated $1,000,000 for a State exhibit. On 
March 3, 1901, President McKinley ap- 
pointed the IVational World's Fair commit- 
tee for the purpose of taking practical 
charge of the exposition. The Louisiana 
Purchase Exposition Company, with David 



R. Francis as president, was organized, hav- 
ing an executive committee and twenty-four 
standing committees. By act of Congress, 
June 30, 1902, the exposition was postponed 
until 1904. The many excellent histories 
published of this great renowned exhibition 
will furnish reliable information of this 
great world's enterprise with David R. 
Francis at its head. Governor Francis was 
married at St. Louis, Mo., in January, 1876, 
to Jennie, daughter of John D. Perry, of St. 
Louis. Business address, Laclede building. 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN W. CHOATE, M. D. 

John W. Choate, M. D., farmer and 
stock raiser. Born November 15, 1858. in 
Bates county. Mo. Son of Nicholas and 
Pernelia I. (Wilson) Choate. Educated in 
the public schools of Bates county and the 
Butler Academy, graduating degree B. S. 
Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, gradu- 
ating in the class of 1886, degree M. D. 

Dr. Choate, aside from his extended 
practice of his profession in Butler, has 
taken a deep interest in social and political 
matters, although never has been an aspirant 
for any office or political preferment, keep- 
ing posted in the current events of his State 
and nation, he has always advocated and 
fa\-ored a pure and clean administration and 
opposed to graft wherever it is found, ami 
his approval and support to all reforms that 
tends to uphold the dignity of the common- 
wealth in which he resides. He has always 
aftlliated with the Democratic party. He 
represented Bates county. Mo., in the Thir- 
ty-seventh and Thirty-eighth General As- 
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439 



committees. Dr. Choate has also been ac- 
tively engaged in farming and stock raising 
in which he has been very successful. He is 
a member of A. F. & A. M., director and 
secretary of the Farmers Bank of Butler, 
Baptist Missionary in religious belief. Mar- 
ried May 8, 1889, at Harrisonville, Mo., to 
Miss Lulu L. Jackson. Children, Leslie 
Ray Choate. Residence address, Butler, 

Missouri. 

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THOMAS THEODORE SHELTON. 

Thomas Theodore Shelton, merchant, 
was born in 1844 in Sheltonville, Ga., son 
of H. B. and Emily (Connaly) Shelton. 
Educated in the public schools of Pettis 
county, Missouri. He is a member of the 
White, Branch & Shelton Hat Company, 
composed of L. Branch, president, and R. 
T. Shelton, secretary. The business was 
established in 1885. Mr. Shelton is a mem- 
ber of the Mercantile Club, St. Louis, Mo. 
In politics he is a Democrat. He was mar- 
ried, in 1868, in Sedalia, Mo., to Miss Janie 
Gentry. Children, R. T. and W. G. Shel- 
ton. Business address, iioi Washington 
avenue; residence address, 4467 Lindell 

avenue. 

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JOHN A. SEA. 

John A. Sea, lawyer. Born August 5, 
1850, in Jessamine county, Ky. Son of 
Leroy M. and ;\Liry M. Moseley. Educated 
in the Independence high school, came to 
Missouri from Kentucky in 1855, and per- 
manently located in Indepedence. In 1876 
engaged in the practice of law and has built 
up a large and lucrative practice in his pro- 



fession. Fie has been a member of the 
school board of Independence, Mo., for 
over twenty years, now president of the 
board. In 1902 appointed county counsellor 
of Jackson county. Mo., term expires Jan- 
uary 14, 1907. He has been a strong ad- 
vocate of Democracy for a quarter of a cen- 
tury. He is past commander of the Knights 
Templar ; proprietor John A. Sea Abstract 
Company. He was one of the organizers 
of the Bank of Independence and is now a 
director and attorney for the same; was 
married May 5, 1880, to Miss Sallie E. 
Christopher, at Independence, Mo. Chil- 
dren : Madge L., now Mrs. John S. Mitchell 
of Philadelphia, Pa. ; H. Leroy and Helen 
Marr Sea. Business address. Independence, 
Missouri. 



HOUSTON THOMAS FORCE. 

Houston Thomas Force, vice-president 
of the Boogher, Force & Goodbar Hat Co., 
was born in 1854, in Charleston, S. C, son 
of Benjamin Ward and Julia (Harper) 
Force. Educated in the private schools. 
Ancestors on paternal line participated in the 
Revolutionary war. He began his business 
career when fifteen years old, keeping books 
for a New York silverware house; after- 
wards went to Atlanta, Ga. In 1872 re- 
moved to Memphis, where he became book- 
keeper for the wholesale hat house of Scott- 
Jones Hat Company, and in 1877 became a 
member of the firm of Scott-Force Hat 
Company. St. Louis, and the partner and 
president of the Scott-Force & Goodbar Flat 
Company: partner and vice-president of the 
Boogher. Force & Goodbar Hat Company, 
organized in 1898. In religious belief he 
is a Presbyterian, and in politics he is a 



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Democrat. Married. Five children born : 
John L., Annie, Houston, Jr., Delphine and 
Hanlon Force. Business address, 918 
Washington avenue ; residence address, 
4343 Morgan street. 



GEORGE WOOLF. 



George Woolf, secretary and treasurer 
of the Morris Woolf Silk Company, was 
born in 1838 in New York City, son of 
Moses and Rachel (Davis) Woolf. Edu- 
cated in the New York City schools. He is 
a member of the firm of Morris Woolf Silk 
Company, composed of Morris Woolf, A. 
E. Woolf, George Woolf, established in 
1904. They transact a large and extensive 
business in silks. Previous to entering this 
firm he was engaged as a clerk in various 
mercantile businesses up to 1904. He has 
been a resident of the state of Missouri since 
1857. He is a member of the Credit Men's 
Association; Masonic order; T. P. A., and 
Commercial Travelers. His religious belief 
is Jewish. He is indepdvident in politics. 
Married, in June, 1862, in St. Louis, ^lo., 
to Leah Morris. Business address. 700 
Washington avenue; residence address, 
51 16 Fairmount avenue. 



JACOB D. STRAUS. 

Jacob D. Straus, wholesale saddlery 
merchant, was born April 26. 1857, in Ger- 
many, son of David and Blanch (Stern) 
Straus. Educated in Germany and the 
United States. His first business experience 
was as a mechanic, then salesman, then man- 



ager, and partner. The original firm with 
which he was connected was L. Frank & Co., 
San Antonia, Texas, established in 1870. 
The firm of Jacob D. Straus Saddlery Com- 
pany sold out their business to L. Frank 
Saddlery Company, San Antonia, Texas, of 
which Mr. Straus is now president. Their 
main office and salesroom is at 1308 Wash- 
ington avenue, St. Louis, Mo. 

Mr. Straus is a member of the Manufact- 
urers' Association. Li religious belief he is 
Jewish, and in politics independent. He 
was married, January 13, 1901, in St. 
Louis, Mo. ; has been twice married and has 
six children living. Business address, 1308 
Washington avenue ; residence address, 3963 
West Pine. 



HARRY SCULLIX. 

Harry Scullin, street railway manager, 
was born October 6, 1866, in Fort Leaven- 
worth, Kans. He was educated at St. 
John's College, of Xew York, and at St. 
Louis University. Leaving school when he 
was eighteen years of age, he spent the two 
years following on a stock ranch in the In- 
dian Territory, and then came to St. Louis, 
where he accepted a clerkship in the office of 
the Union Depot Railway Company. In 
1887 he assisted his father in construction 
work on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. 
Returning to St. Louis in 18SS, he became 
timekeeper and purchasing agent for the 
Jefferson Avenue Street Railway, and in 
1890 was made secretary of the company 
operating that line. In 1891 he was elected 
vice-president of the Union Depot Railway 
Company, and in 1892 became both vice- 
president and general manager of that cor- 
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the Grand Avenue Railroad, and has con- 
tinued up to tile present time to he promi- 
nently identified with the street railway in- 
terests of the city. 

December 26, 1887, Air. Scullin married 
Miss Julia Frye Woodward. Their children 
are Mary, Julia, Eugenia and Lenore Scul- 
lin. Business address, Security building, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



CORWIN H. SPENCER. 

Corwin H. Spencer was born December 
1,3, 1 85 1, in Morgan county, Ohio, son of 
David and Angeline (Israel) Spencer. He 
obtained a country school education and 
afterwards took a course of study at the 
High School of Malta, Ohio. Until he was 
seventeen years old. he worked on his 
father's farm, and thereafter for several 
years taught school during the winter 
months, and in 1873 '^^ went to McConnells- 
ville, Ohio, where he was employed as clerk 
in a general store and gained his first expe- 
rience in mercantile pursuits. In 1874 he 
came to St. Louis, and after completing a 
course of study at Bryant & Stratton's Col- 
lege, he entered the old house of Harlow 
Gelston & Company as a bookkeeper and 
grain salesman. In 1876 he became a mem- 
ber of the firm, which then took the name of 
Harlow, Spencer & Co. Their business was 
prosperous and they were among the leaders 
of the St. Louis market until 1882, when 
their business was suspended, and Mr. 
Spencer entered with the firm of W. T. 
Anderson & Co., and purchased grain on 
joint account. This venture was a success 
from the beginning, and in a short time he 
was among the leaders of St. Louis' grain 



interests. In 1S89 he organized the firm of 
C. H. Spencer & Co., and in 1890, having 
purchased the elevator at Madison, 111., this 
firm was reorganized and incorporated as 
the C. H. Spencer Grain & Elevator Com- 
pany. He continued to act as president and 
general manager of that company until July 
I, 1897, when, on account of failing health, 
he closed out his St. Louis business, after- 
wards devoting much of his time to the 
operation of the Southern Electric Railway, 
and was elected president of the corporation 
owning that line in 1897, whicli is largely 
owned and controlled by himself, and has 
grown steadily and rapidly and greatly in- 
creased in value. He is also president of the 
National Railway Company. He is a lead- 
ing spirit "on 'Change," and his views con- 
cerning market conditions are much sought 
after by operators of the Merchants' Ex- 
change. He was elected president of the 
Merchants' Exchange in 1896, and at the 
end of his term retired from the office with 
the reputation of having been one of the 
most popular and efficient presidents. For 
the past two years he has been chairman of 
the board of managers of the St. Louis 
Traffic Bureau. He has also been identified 
with the Business Men's League, and is 
vice-president of that organization. He is a 
large stockholder and director in the Allen, 
Grier & Zeller Grain Company, of Chicago, 
and is a member of the New York Produce 
Exchange. He is a director in the Conti- 
nental National Bank, of St. Louis, and in 
business circles is recognized as a capable 
and sagacious financier. Identified with the 
Republican party politically, he has from 
time to time taken an active interest in pro- 
moting its welfare and advancing its prin- 
ciples. He is a Presbyterian churchman 
and a member of the St. Louis, Commer- 



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cial, Xoonday and Country clubs. He is in 
close touc'i with tlie social, as well as com- 
mercial life, of St. Louis. 

Mr. Silencer was married February 23, 
1875, to Miss :\Iary E. Harlow, of Kimms- 
wick, Mo. Their children are Harlow 
Bates, Ruth Anne, Lula and Hazel Spencer. 
Business address, 203 Chamber of Com- 
merce building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



JOHN A. WILDER. 

John A. Wilder, secretary and treasurer 
of J. H. Crane Furniture Co. Born August 
9, 1847, in Springfield, Mass. Son of John 
R. and Cordelia M. (Remington) Wilder. 
Educated in the public schools of Cincin- 
nati, O. He located in Missouri in 1869 at 
St. Louis, from the state of Ohio, and be- 
gan his career as clerk with J. H. Crane in 
1869 and l)ecame interested in the com- 
pany and elected its secretary January 27, 
1903, the date of its incorporation. Mr. 
Wilder is a member of the Masonic order. 
Odd Fellows, and National Union. In re- 
ligious belief he is a Baptist, and he affili- 
ates with the Republican party. He was 
married in April, 1871, in St. Louis, Mo., to 
IMiss Anna Roderick. Children, John, 
Alice, Annie, Elsie, .\lfred and Ruth. Bus- 
iness address, 423-425 N. Fourth street; 
residence address, 4347 Gano avenue. 



JOSEPHINE DE FRANCE, B. S. D. O. 

Josephine De France, B. S. D. O., began 
her course at the .\merican School of Oste- 
opathy, Kirksville, Mo., in January of 1898, 
and upon her graduation was retained as a 



member of the faculty of that institution. 
She continued in this position from Febru- 
ary I, 1900, until tlie fall of 1901, when she 
removed to St. Louis, and established her 
ottices permanently at 404 Commercial 
building, corner Sixth and Olive streets. 

During her residence at Kirksville and 
her connection with the American School of 
Osteopathy, Miss De France established a 
wide reputation throughout the United 
States as an eminent specialist, and finding 
that calls for her professional services were 
so numerous as to interfere with her duties 
at the college, she decided to give them up 
and devote herself exclusively to her prac- 
tice. During her residence in St. Louis she 
has made many warm friends amoiig the 
members of her profession and among med- 
ical men. 



GORDON c. McNeil. 

Gordon C. McNeil, president of the 
McNeil Pressed Brick Company, was born 
in this city and obtained his e<lucation here, 
finishing at the Washington University. 
His business career was started with a well- 
known dry goods firm of St. Louis, and 
after leaving them he accepted the position 
of confidential secretary to General .\gent 
Sherman of the New York Mutual Life 
Company and in 1899 he organized the com- 
pany of which he is at present the head. He 
is a real southern gentleman and while he is 
in business for the profit to be obtained he 
never loses sight of the fact that courtesy 
and a kind word for all goes a long way in 
making friends and all with whom he comes 
in contact have nothing but good words to 
say of him. 

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treasurer was born in this city, January 7. 
1856, and attended the schools Iiere. gradu- 
ating from the same institution as his 
brother, the Washington University. His 
lirst employment was with the A. F. Shap- 
leigh Hardware Company, he leaving them 
to accept a position with G. & W. Todd 
(S: Co., leather belting manufacturers. \Vith 
them he remained six years and went from 
them to the Williamson Belting Company 
as their traveling representative through the 
east. He finally decide to start in business 
for himself and organized an agency repre- 
senting several eastern manufacturing con- 
cerns. As the secretary and treasurer of the 
present concern he fills the position in good 
shape owing to his extensive experience in 
that line. Ofiice, 317 Chemical building; 
residence, 4316 Delmar boulevard, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



PHIL. H. SHERIDAN. 

Phil. H. Sheridan. Lawyer. Born April 
I, 1865, at Sumner, 111., son of Albert and 
jMinervia (Judy) Sheridan. The maternal 
grandfather of Phil. H. Sheridan fought 
with distinction in the war of 18 12. Edu- 
cated in the public schools of Sumner, 111., 
Merom Christian College, [Nlerom, Ind., and 
the National Normal University and Law 
School at Lebanon, O. In 1891, admitted 
to the bar in Tennessee. In 1892 moved to 
Joplin, Mo. Afterwards locating perma- 
nently in St. Louis, where he has since prac- 
ticed his profession. A large and lucra- 
tive business is transacted by his firm. He 
lias conducted many important civil and 
criminal cases with success ; he also takes 
great pleasure in literary and historical in- 



vestigation. He is a member of tlie North 
End Business Men's Association, West End 
Business Men"s Association and the Affil- 
iated Business Men's Association of St. 
Louis. In political matters he is independ- 
ent. He was married April 20, 1903, to Miss 
Grace Alice Piper, of St. Louis. Has one 
child, Edwin Thompson Sheridan. He is a 
member of the Knights of Pythias, Royal 
Arcanum, Maccabees. He is a descendant of 
Richard Brinsly Sheridan, the famous 
Irish wit and statesman. Business address, 
714 Roe building, St. Louis, Missouri. 



DR. MEREDITH DABNEY JONES. 

(■ 
Dr. Meredith Dabney Jones, the aurist, 
was born in Claiborne county, Miss., and he 
received his early education in the county 
schools. This, however, he afterwards sup- 
plemented by taking a course at the Uni- 
versity of Mississippi, after which he em- 
barked in the study of his profession. He 
graduated in medicine at the Jefferson Med- 
ical College, of Philadelphia, in 1870, after 
which he spent a year as interne at St. 
Mary's Hospital, Philadelphia, afterwards 
entering the United States Navy as assis- 
tant surgeon. In 1884 he was promoted to 
the rank of surgeon, and served on the Pa- 
cific and Asiatic squadrons. In 1881 he 
went as surgeon on the United States relief 
ship Rodgers, in search of the Arctic ex- 
ploring ship Jeannette, commanded by the 
ill-fated DeLong. The Rodgers went into 
winter cjuarters off the coast of Siberia, was 
burned, and the subject of this sketch, with 
the rest of the officers and crew, was com- 
pelled to live with the Esquimaux and share 
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given a year's leave of absence by the Navy 
Department, and spent it in study in the 
cHnics and hospitals of Vienna and BerHn. 
He resigned from the navy in 1885, and 
settled in St. Louis for the practice of his 
specialty. 

Dr. Jones was married to Miss Arie 
Craig, of Chambersburg, Pa., on September 
25, 1884. Since locating permanently in St. 
Louis, the doctor has been professor of 
otology in the Barnes Medical College. As 
a specialist he has a wide reputation. Resi- 
dence address, 406S Washington boulevard, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



MANLEY G. RICHMOND. 

Manley G. Richmond, president of the 
Shaw & Richmond Produce Company. 

Mr. Richmond came to St. Louis from 
Michigan, where he had been engaged in 
teaching school. He was elected superin- 
tendent of schools of Oxford, Mich., when 
he was but twenty-one years of age. 

Soon after coming to this city he en- 
tered the produce commission business, in 
which he has achieved a gratifying measure 
of success. It was in 1880 that Mr. Rich- 
mond fifst got into the business, and he was 
but twenty-three years of age. Conse- 
quently, in spite of the fact that he has been 
in the business for the past twenty-four 
years, he is still a young man, only forty- 
seven years of age. 

Mr. Richmond has always taken an ac- 
tive part in promoting the trade interests 
of the city and furthering the commercial 
prosperity and growth of St. Louis. He 
has long been a member of the Merchants' 
Exchange. He is also a member of the 



executive board of the St. Louis ]\Ianufac- 
turers' Association, and an active and in- 
fluential member of the Missouri Athletic 
Club. He is a member of the National 
League of Commission Merchants, which 
has done much to further the interests of the 
commission trade throughout the country. 

Throughout his career Mr. Richmond 
has always maintained an unassailable rep- 
utation for business honesty, and he is held 
in the highest regard by those who have met 
him in a business way. as well as by those 
with whom he comes in contact socially. In 
his particular line of business he is consid- 
ered one of the best posted men in the city, 
with excellent judgment. Much of the suc- 
cess of the Shaw & Richmond Produce 
Company is undoubtedly due to his excellent 
management and executive ability. 

Mr. Richmond is married and has three 
charming daughters. He is one of the solid 
business men of the community, who withal 
is not so engrossed in his private business 
that he cannot at any time find opportunity 
to give liberally of his personal efforts and 
his money to aid any movement depending" 
upon the public spirit of the citizens for its 
success. Business address, 829-31 N. Third 
street ; residence, 826 N. Fourth street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



S. H. YOUNG. 



S. H. Young. Wholesale hat merchant. 
Born in 1852 in Carleton, Miss. Son of S. 
H. and C. W. (Small) Young. Educated 
in private school of Mississippi. He is a 
member of the firm of Gauss-Langenbcrg 
Hat Co., incorporated in 1880 and was 
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jobbers and wholesale dealers in hats. In 
religious belief he is a Presbyterian. Demo- 
cratic in politics. He was married in i8Si 
in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Emma J. Gauss. 
Business address. Ninth and Washington 
avenue; residence address, 4067 Washing- 
ton avenue. 



DAVID DAVIS WALKER, Jr. 

David Davis Walker, Jr. Merchant. 
Born in 1S70 in St. Louis, Mo. Son of 
David D. and Martha A. (Blakey) Walker. 
He is a member of the Ely-Walker D. G. 
Company, and vice-president of the same. 
The firm is composed of the following 
named members : D. P. Calhoun, president ; 
David Davis Walker, Jr., vice-president; 
W. E. Morgan, second vice-president ; J. S. 
Walker, secretary and treasurer. The busi- 
ness of this firm was established in 1878. 
Mr. Walker was educated in the St. Louis 
University, and is a Catholic in religious be- 
lief, and is a Republican in politics. He 
was married in 1900 in St. Louis, Mo., to 
Miss Louisa Filley. Business address, 
Eighth and Washington avenue ; residence, 
23 Lenox Place. 



DR. J. H. CRENSHAW. 

Dr. J. H. Crenshaw, one of the best 
known and most eminent osteopaths of the 
city of St. Louis, is a graduate of the Amer- 
ican School of Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo. 
After his graduation from this college, Dr. 
Crenshaw removed to St. Louis and com- 
menced the practice of his profession. He 



continued in this practice until the late State 
Legislature passed an act establishing a 
State Board of Osteopathic Registration 
and Examination. At the request of many 
osteopaths throughout the State, Governor 
Dockery then appointed him as a member 
of this board, and upon organization of the 
same he was elected secretary. 

With the exception of one year spent in 
Illinois Dr. Crenshaw has always practiced 
in St. Louis and he has become very well 
known in this city both among the osteo- 
paths and among the members of the medi- 
cal societies, where he is held in high re- 
gard both on account of his high profes- 
sional conduct and his personal character. 
Dr. Crenshaw has offices in the Oriel build- 
ing and has his residence at looi Wagner 
place. 



GEORGE DELACHAUMETTE 
REYNOLDS. 

George Delachaumette Reynolds. Law- 
yer. Born at Gettysburg, Pa., December 
16, 1 84 1. Son of Rev. William Morton and 
Ann Maria (Swan) Reynolds. His pater- 
nal grandfather, George Reynolds, was 
born in Warren county, N. J., of Irish pa- 
rents who settled there in about the year 
1725, when only nineteen years old was an 
officer in the Continental army. His ma- 
ternal great-grandfather, Walter Smith, 
was one of the founders of Gettysburg, and 
married Mary Buchanan, only daughter of 
Walter Buchanan, one of the first of the 
Scotch-Irish settlers of what was then 
York, now Adams county. Pa. This branch 
also served in the Colonial and Revolution- 
ary wars and in the war of 1812. Rev. 
William M. Revnolds, D. D.. who was one 



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of tlie first professors of Pennsylvania Col- 
lege at Gettysburg and afterwards elected 
president of the Illinois State University at 
Springfield, 111, subsequently became a 
member of the F-jjiscopal Church, and died 
at Harlem, a suburb of Chicago, September 
27, 1876. His mother then removed to 
Springfield, 111., where she died in 1890. 
After his elementary education was com- 
pleted he entered tlie State University, grad- 
uating in that institution in the class of 
1 86 1, with the degree of A. M. The year 
following his graduation Mr. Reynolds en- 
listed as a private in Battery K, Second Illi- 
nois Light Artillery. For a few months 
prior to this, acted as clerk for ex-Governor 
Jolin Wood, the famous quartermaster-gen- 
eral of Illinois. He .served in the Union 
Army from 1861 to 1866; mustered out as 
lieutenant colonel. United States volun- 
teers. Was in all the campaigns of the army 
of the Tennessee until November, 1864. At 
the close of the war lie returned to Illinois, 
finished law studies ; admitted to the bar in 
1867 at Hannibal, Mo., and in October, 
1867 he went to Potosi, Mo., and began 
practice, forming a partnership with Moses 
Conger, and later with William S. Relfe. In 
1 87 1 he came to St. Louis, still continuing 
his partnership with Mr. Relfe. In 1875 
he removed to Colorado, where at Boulder 
he was in partnership with Hon. William 
E. Beck, afterwards Chief Justice of Col- 
orado. In 1877 Mr. Reynolds returned to 
St. Louis and resumed the practice there. 
In 1877-9, '" partnership with Hon. R. Gra- 
ham Frost, then became associated with 
Mr. James Carr. The latter firm was 
dissolved in 1882, and Mr. Reynolds 
and Mr. Relfe resumed the partnershi]i 
which continued until 1889, when Mr. Rey- 
nolds was appointed United States attorney 



for the Eastern District of Missouri by Pres- 
ident Harrison and served in this office from 
May, 1889, to February, 1894, when he 
again resumed the actual practice of the law. 
He is now in partnership with his son, 
George V. Reynolds. Mr. Reynolds is well 
known throughout the city and state and has 
been devoted specially to his profession in 
wliich he has attained high rank. He also 
interests himself and is active in military so- 
ciety matters and takes great interest in pol- 
itics, but has been a candidate for office only 
once, when in 1902 he was a candidate for 
the Fifty-eighth Congress from the Twelfth 
District of Missouri but was declared de- 
feated. He is a member of the Mercantile 
Club, Masonic Lodge, Grand Army of the 
Republic, military Order of the Loyal Le- 
gion of the United States and in religious 
belief he is a Protestant Episcopal. In 1876 
Mr. Reynolds married Miss Julia, eldest 
daughter of Augustes S. Vogdes, then of 
Louisiana, Mo. They have two sons and a 
daughter, namely : George Vogdes, James 
William and Julia Reynolds. Business ad- 
dress, Si.xth and Olive street. St. Louis. 
Missouri. 



' DR. ELLA A. HUNT. 

When Dr. Ella A. Hunt leased a suite 
of ofiices in the Equitable building and com- 
menced the practice of osteopathy in St. 
Louis nine years ago, there was not another 
osteopath in the city. To-day there are 
about forty, yet Dr. Hunt has held her place 
at the head of that school of practice, build- 
ing up a clientele which is one of the best in 
the city. 

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her instruction under the direction of the 
founder of the science. Dr. A. T. Still. Filled 
\vith enthusiasm for her profession, pos- 
sessed of ability, energy and untiring ca- 
pacity for hard work, it is not surprising 
that she should succeed. Her suite, No. lo, 
on the fourth floor of the Equitable build- 
ing, soon became the mecca for many suf- 
ferers seeking relief, and so well has she 
succeeded in alleviating their ills that her 
practice has grown steadily. She still oc- 
cupies the same suite of ofiices she took 
when she came to St. Louis. 



JAMES EDGAR WITHROW. 

James Edgar W^ithrow. Lawyer and 
Jurist. Born May 22, 1843, in Rushville, 
Schuyler county, Illinois, son of William 
E. and Harriet (Chase) Withrow. He 
passed his early boyhood in Rushville where 
he obtained his public school education. 
Later his parents removed to Macomb, 111., 
where he continued his education in the 
higher departments. He enlisted, in Sep- 
tember, 1862, in the Seventy-eighth Regi- 
ment of Illinois, Volunteer Infantry, for 
service in the Union army during the war 
of the Rebellion. Thereafter until the close 
of the war he was on active duty, partici- 
pating in the battles of Franklin, Duck Hill, 
Chickamauga, Altoona, Resaca, Dalton, Alill 
Creek Gap, Kenesaw Mountain, Atlanta, 
Jonesborough and the siege of Savannah 
and the engagements at Bentonville and Ra- 
leigh. He marched with Sherman's army 
from Nashville to Savannah and at the close 
of the war to Washington, D. C, where he 
participated in the final grand review of the 
federal army. He was mustered out of the 



service at Chicago, 111., in June, 1865, and 
soon afterwards came to St. Louis, which 
has ever since been his home. During the 
years 1865 and 1866 he clerked in large dry 
goods houses, at the same time fitting him- 
self for admission to the bar by reviewing 
and supplementing the law studies which 
he had begun before entering the army. In 
January of 1868 he was admitted to the bar. 
In 1877 he) was appointed assistant city 
counselor of St. Louis and served in that 
capacity until 1879. From 1877 until 1883 
he was secretary of the Bar Asssociation of 
St. Louis and occupied the same position in 
the Missouri State Bar Association during 
the years 1883, 1884 and 1885. In 1888 
he was elected judge of the St. Louis Cir- 
cuit Court and re-elected to that oflice in 
1894. Twehe years service on the l^ench, 
earned for him the reputation of being one 
of the worthiest and most useful members 
of the State judiciary. He has taken an 
active interest in the veteran military organ- 
izations, and is a member of the Ransom 
Post of the Grand Army of the Republican. 
April 25, 1872, he married Miss Addie S. 
Partridge and they have one son, Edgar P. 
Withrow. Business address. Four Courts,, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



EDWARDS WHITAKER. 

Edwards Whitaker. Financier. Born 
April 29, 1848. Son of William A. an<l 
Letitia (Edwards) Whitaker. When he 
was five years of age his father died and he 
was carefully reared and educated by his 
mother in St. Louis and at the age of si.x- 
teen he left the high school to 1)ecome a 
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ment of the United States Army under Col. 
L. S. Metcalf. That was in 1864, the last 
year of the Civil war. In 1865 he became 
a clerk in the United States sub-treasury at 
St. Louis, under Gen. Albert I. Edwards, 
and assistant United States treasurer. From 
this position he went to one of the same na- 
ture with the private banking and brokerage 
firm of Edwards & Mathews and here in 
1874 became a member of the firm of 
Mathews & Whitaker; Gen. Edwards hav- 
ing retired from business. In 1890, when 
Mr. Mathews retired, the firm was suc- 
ceeded by Whitaker & Hodgman, which is 
as widely and as favorably known as any 
concern of its kind in the west. He con- 
ducted negotiations which secured for the 
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad 
Company its St. Louis terminal facilities, 
and has managed with consummate skill and 
judgment their interests scarcely less im- 
portant. Mr. Whitaker married in 1874, 
Miss Sophia Taylor, of St. Louis. Busi- 
ness address, 300 N. Fourth street, St. 
Louis, Missouri. 



WILLIAM H. TAYLOR. 

William H. Taylor, fire insurance agent. 
Born in St. Louis, Mo., November 8, 1858. 
Son of James J. and Mary (Pfaffenbach) 
Taylor. Educated at the public schools of 
Missouri from 1865 to 1873 inclusive. En- 
tered insurance business as clerk in oftice of 
William Nisbet & Co., general insurance 
agents, December 7, 1873, ^"^ was admitted 
to partnership in same firm January i, 1882. 
under firm of Nisbet & Taylor, from which 
he withdrew January 11, 1884. and started 
the general fire insurance business as now 



(and continuously since then) conducted 
under his own name. The growth of his 
business has been steady and gradual and 
is now one of the principal agencies in St. 
Louis. Married May 10, 1886, Frances 
Ogden. Children, Frances A., James J., 
and I-"lorence M. Taylor. Is Republican in 
politics and is a member of the Merchants' 
Exchange of St. Louis, Mo. ; Missouri 
Lodge No. I, A. F. & A. M. ; Excelsior 
Lodge No. 1 8. I. O. O. F., and of Wildey 
Encampment No. i, I. O. O. F. Residence, 
4448 West Belle Place. St Louis. Ofiice, 605 
Odd Fellows building. St. Louis. 



OLIVER RAY SEXTON TRABER. 

Oliver Ray Sexton Traber. Architect. 
Born April 18, 1882. in St. Louis, Mo. Son 
of Colonel and Amelia (Madeira) Traber. 
Educated in the public and high schools 
and the Academy of Architecture and Intlus- 
trial Science. His great-grandfather served 
four j-ears in the late Civil war. 

The business career of Oliver Ray Sexton 
Traber begun in 1903. Having made a 
thorough preparation in acquiring a good 
technical education of his profession, he 
began the practice in the same, and in a 
period approximating eight years, lie has 
built up a large and lucrative practice and 
the public has liberally bestowed on him a 
large public patronage. He has designed and 
planned residences for the following persons : 
Mrs. Lea H, Noel, Mrs. H. B. Morse, Mrs. 

E. J. Krafif, Mrs. George L. Zimmerer, Mrs. 

F. J. Cornwell. Mrs. D. D. Holmes, and office 
and flat building for Dr. E. A. Babler. 

In religious denomination Mr. Traber 
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politics he is a Republican. Business address, 
318 Bank of Commerce building; residence 
address, 12 15 Walton avenue, St. Louis, 
Missouri. 



JAMES REVEL NAVE. 

James Revel Nave. President of the 
Buffalo Hay Press Co. Son of James 
McCord and Annie M. (English) McCord. 
Born Dec. 24, 1873, in Kansas City, Mo. 
He began his education in schools in his na- 
tive city and afterwards attended the mili- 
tary school at Peekskili-on-the-Hudson. the 
Andover, Mass., Preparatory School and 
Williams College at Williamstown, Mass. 
When the plant of the Eagle Manufacturing 
Company was removed from Davenport, la. 
to Kansas City, Mo., and the company was 
incorporated under the laws of Missouri in 
1896, he acquired an interest and was made 
assistant secretary. The year following 
he was promoted and made treasurer of 
the institution, a position he ably filled. 
He is among the most active members 
of the Manufacturing Association of Kan- 
sas City and is a director in that body. He 
is a member of the Country Club and the 
Commercial Club of Kansas City. Business 
address. Hickory street, corner Union ave- 
nue, Kansas City, Missouri. 



STEPHEN PRINCE TWISS. 

Stephen Prince Twiss was born May 2, 
1827, in Charlton, Wooster county, Mass., 
son of James J. and Elsie (Prince) Twiss, 



whose ancestry runs back many generations 
in New England, and they were among the 
early settlers who figured actively in colo- 
nial history. The early life of Stephen P. 
was spemt on a farm where he remained 
until fifteen years old. He acc|uired his edu- 
cation in the country schools, entering Lei- 
cester Academy in September, 1845, where 
he was self-supporting for five terms at that 
institution. At the age of twenty-one he 
entered the produce commission business 
with his uncle in Boston, Mass., and taught 
school from 1847 to 1850. In May, 1850, 
he became a student at Dane Law School, ot 
Harvard University; received his degree in 
1852; admitted to the bar in March, 1853. 
In November, 1856, he received the honor 
of an election to the Massachusetts Legisla- 
ture, when he voted to send Charles Sumner 
the second time to the United States Senate. 
In 1863 he was elected a member of the 
Worcester, Mass., city council, which office 
he resigned to accept the position of city 
solicitor, to which he had been elected, and 
served two consecutive terms. In politics he 
is and has been since the organization 
of that party, a Republican. He was 
active in the Union cause, and recruited 
a company for the city of Worcester, but on 
account of the state having more than its 
full quota the company was not accepted. 
In December, 1865, he located in Kansas 
City, Mo., and engaged in the practice of his 
profession, which he followed up to Decem- 
ber, 1880. In 1872 he was elected a mem- 
ber of the House in the State Legislature, 
and was twice re-elected (1874-1876). At 
one session he was a candidate of the Repub- 
licans for speaker. In 1878 he received the 
appointment of city counsellor of Kansas 
City, Mo., from a Democratic mayor, and 
was confirmed by a Democratic council. 



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January i, 1881, he was appointed associate 
justice of the Supreme Court of the terri- 
tory of Utah, serving four years. In 1884 
President Cleveland being elected, it was 
thought he would remove all the Republican 
office-holders. Fearing this, the Democratic 
territorial committee assured him they 
would use their best endeavors to prevent his 
removal. The President, however, offered 
to re-appoint him to the same office, but he 
declined the honor and retired to his former 
home in Kansas City. Mr. Twiss is a mem- 
ber of the Congregational Church in Kansas 
City. Judge Twiss was married to Miss 
Louisa Woodbury Clark. In August 5, 
1873, she died. He was again married to 
Miss Emeline Bridewell. 



STEPHEN HOOD RAGAN, M. D. 

Stephen Hood Ragan. M. D. Burn Sep- 
tember 3, 1864. near Johnson Station. Tar- 
rant county, Tex. Son of Col. Stephen C. 
Ragan. He is descended from Scotch-Irish 
ancestry and from the Ragan family have 
come all in America wlio bear the name of 
Ragan and Reagan. His paternal grand- 
father Jacob R. came from Kentucky to 
Missouri by wagon, and was a pioneer set- 
tler in Jackson county, Missouri, and also 
one of the fourteen men forming the orig- 
inal Kansas City T(jwn Site Co. Stephen 
H. was two years of age when his parents 
came to Jackson county : he was reared on 
a home farm and was educated in the ward 
schools, and in Spalding's Commercial Col- 
lege of Kansas City, graduating in the latter 
institution in 1888. For two years following 
he read medicine under the tutorship of Dr. 
John C. Rogers, and Dr. J. H. \'an Eman 



in Kansas City. He then entered the Kan- 
sas City Medical College. Graduating in 
1894, he entered upon the practice devoting 
himself principally to general surgery. For 
four years beginning with his taking his 
medical degree he was a member of the 
dispensary staff of the Kansas City Medi- 
cal College, principally engaged in treating 
the diseases of women. He has been pro- 
fessor of anatomy in the Columbian Medi- 
cal College from its organization. In 1898 
and since 1895 ^^^ '^^^ t)een demonstrator of 
anatomy, and lecturer on anatomy in the 
Kansas City Dental College. He is a mem- 
ber of the Kansas City Anatomical Associa- 
tion, and of the Missouri State Anatomical 
Association, and is treasurer of the former 
body. From 1896 to 1898 he was a mem- 
ber of the hospital corps of the Third Regi- 
ment, National Guard of Missouri. In pol- 
itics he is a Democrat, and in religion a 
Methodist. He is a member of the K. of P..- 
the Modern Woodmen and the United 
Workmen, being medical examiner of Alcots 
Lodge, No. 116, of the latter order. Dr. 
Ragan was married November 22, 1885, to 
Miss Vena Duncan, a daughter of Thomas 
Duncan, who is a native of Missouri, and a 
pioneer settler of Wyandotte county, Kan- 
sas. Three children have been boi;n, Wal- 
ter, Stephen and Alpha Ragan. Business 
and residence address, 3034 Holmes, Kan- 
sas Citv, Missouri. 



T. B. BRUNS. 



J. B. Bruns. jjresident of the Bruns 
Shoe Co., and a man who has been prom- 
inently identitied with the public interests 
(jf Jefferson City over twenty-five years. 



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was born on a farm in the Province of Han- 
over, Germany, on the 13th of Decem- 
ber, 1834, where he was reared, edu- 
cated and learned to make wooden shoes. 
Coming to tliis country, he settled in St. 
Louis October 26, 1866, where, during 
the busy months of summer he worked in 
the brick yards and in winter, when there 
was little doing, he made wooden shoes, 
which was at that time a profitable trade. 
He came to Jefferson City in April, 1868, 
when nature was all in bud, and began 
working at the brick yard, but remained 
only a year when he returned to St. Louis 
and resumed his original business. In Au- 
gust, 1869, he was married to Mrs. Mary 
Yunck, a widow near Taos, Cole county. 
Assuming charge of his wife's farm, re- 
mained a short while, when he sold it and 
moved to Jefferson City, again making 
wooden shoes, for which he found a ready 
sale. He helped build the Dulla Milling Co.'s 
large building, and during the summer 
worked at various odd jobs. He was ap- 
pointed street commissioner in 1873, of Jef- 
ferson City. He and his wife purchased 
their first property in Jefferson City, a three- 
room dwelling (south of their present 
stand) and started a dry goods and grocery 
store on a small scale. She attended to the 
details of this business while her husband 
attended to his duties as street commis- 
sioner. In 1880 they were able to add to 
these rooms and to increase their business 
and later purchase the corner lot, erect the 
handsome store and residence which they 
have since occupied. In 1880 Mr. Bruns 
was elected county treasurer and re-elected 
to a second term. In 1894, associating with 
others, he organized a company for the pur- 
pose of manufacturing shoes, under the firm 
name of the J. B. Bruns Shoe Company. 

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Later this company was changed but Mr. 
J. B.. Bruns is still the president. Three 
children were born of this happy union. 
Residence address, 200 Broadway, Jeffer- 
son City, Missouri. 



OSCAR G. BURCFI. 

Oscar G. Burch, Cashier of the First Na- 
tional Bank. One of the most substantial 
citizens of Jefferson City is Oscar G. Burch, 
cashier of the First National Bank. He 
was born December 30, 1841, in Cayuga 
county, New York, on a farm, where he re- 
mained until twelve years of age, attending 
the neighboring district schools. He then 
removed with his parents to Kentucky, and 
in a few months removed to northeast Mis- 
souri (Athens and Waterloo, Clark county), 
afterwards to Keokuk, la. (1858-1862). He 
enlisted August 15, 1862, in the Nine- 
teenth Iowa Infantry Volunteers, Company 
A, under Capt. John Bruce. Was actively 
engaged in the field at the battle of Prairie 
Grove, Ark. (December 7, 1862), the siege 
and surrender of Vicksburg (July, 1863), 
and was a prisoner of war from September 
29, 1863, till July 22, 1864. He was a mem- 
ber of an expedition against Mobile via East 
Pascagoula (January, 1865) ; in the siege 
and capture of the Spanish Fort and the ad- 
jacent works (April, 1865). In 1864 he 
was commissioned lieutenant of Company 
G, and was made sergeant major at Prairie 
Grove, Ark., when Colonel McFarland 
(who was in command of the regiment) 
was killed. He came to Jefferson City in 
August, where he was appointed assistant 
State librarian. He was then made deputy 
under his brother. Nelson C. Burch, who was 



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clerk of tlie Supreme court under the ad- 
ministration of Gov. Thomas C. Fletcher. 
At the expiration of this term he enijaged 
in the real estate and insurance husiness, 
which he has continued since, his sons, X. C. 
and Edson, having charge of the office. He 
has also been associate editor, correspondent 
and reporter on several papers. He filled 
the offices of public administrator, city as- 
sessor and postmaster in a most creditable 
manner. In August, 1882, he became as- 
sociated with the bank of which he is now 
one of the officers. Mr. Burch was united 
in marriage to Miss Mary E. Hart of Keo- 
kuk, la., in 1866. Mr. Burch is a direct 
descendant of General Nathaniel Green, 
while Mrs. Burch's ancestors were closely 
related to Israel Putnam. This union has 
been blessed with five children, three sons 
and two daughters. Mr. Burch is a mem- 
ber of the (;. A. R.. a Republican in politics, 
and an active and earnest member of the 
Presbyterian Church. For fourteen years 
Mr. Burch was a member of the Regents of 
the Lincoln Institute. He is treasurer of the 
Jefiferson City Building and Loan Associa- 
tion, of which he was a charter director : he 
is also treasurer of the Home Building and 
Loan Association, and the Capital City 
Building & Loan Association ; secretary and 
member of the Board of Regents of the 
State Normal School at W'arrensburg. Res- 
idence address. 924 Jefferson street. Jef- 
ferson City, Missouri. 



BENJAMIN J. CASTEEL. 

Benjamin J. Casteel, Judge of tlie Bu- 
•chanan County Criminal Court, was bom in 
Sevier county. Arkansas. October 14. 1851. 



His father, B. J. Casteel was a native of 
Monroe county, Tenn.. and a lawyer. His 
mother, whose maiden name was Elizabeth 
]McKcnzie. was also of .Nionroe county. 
Tenn. Our subject was educated in private 
schools and graduated from Hiawassee Col- 
lege, Tennessee, in 1869. In 1872 he came 
to Osborn, DeKalb county. Missouri, with 
his mother, and there began the practice of 
law. He was prosecuting attorney of De- 
Kalb county for two terms and in 1881 
came to St. Joseph, where he built up a 
large practice and took rank with the first 
lawyers. In the spring of 1897 he was ap- 
pointed city counsellor, which position he 
held until April 18. 1899. when he was ap- 
pointed judge of the criminal court, to fill 
the vacancy caused by the resignation of 
Judge R. E. CuKcr. Judge Casteel was 
married March 15. 1876. to a daughter of 
James and Mary Gibbany of Osborn. Seven 
children were born of this union. Politi- 
cally Judge Casteel is a Democrat and a 
leader in the party. In religion he is a 
Methodist and a member of the Francis 
Street M. E. Church. South. Business ad- 
dress. Court House, St. Joseph. Missouri. 



HUGH W. CR.MG. 



Hugh W. Craig, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Craig-Barr Mercantile Com- 
])any, of St. Joseph, and one of the city's 
repre.sentative men. was born at Waltham. 
Kan.sas, December 17. 1870, and is a son 
of William B. and Caroline B. (Kelsey) 
Craig. 

Hugh W. Craig was gi\en excellent ed- 
ucational opportunities and completed his 
education at Highland University, at High- 



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land, Kans. He decided upon a business ca- 
reer and immediately entered the employ of 
Steele-Walker & Company, as traveling 
salesman, meeting with very satisfactory 
success. Upon the organization of the 
Craig-Barr Mercantile Company, he became 
a member of the firm, and upon its incor- 
poration became its secretary and treasurer. 
This is one of the large and prospering en- 
terprises of St. Joseph. Its officers are men 
uf capital and experience and it adds ma- 
terially to the reputation of St. Joseph as a 
commercial center. Politically, Mr. Craig 
is a Republican, and fraternally he is an 
Elk. Business address, 12 12 Eredrick ave- 
nue, St. Joseph, Missouri. 



GENERAL HENRY CLAY EWING. 

General Henry Clay Ewing. president of 
the Exchange Bank of Jefferson City, was 
born August 15, 1828. in this city, where 
he grew to manhood, and has continued, 
most prominently identified with its inter- 
ests since. His earlv education was in the 
public schools of this county. Following the 
legal bent of his mind, he studied law under 
his father. Judge Robert A. Ewing. His 
mother was Jane Ramsey, a daughter of 
General Jonathan Ramsey, one of the pio- 
neers of Missouri, having immigrated to 
this State in 181 7 from Kentucky. In 1852 
he was admitted to the bar by Judge G. W. 
Miller. He was early associated in his legal 
practice with Judge E. L. Edwards, and 
later a number of years with J. L. Smith 
(now presiding judge of the Kansas City 
Court of Appeals and one of the most emi- 
nent jurists of the State), the firm being 
Ewing & Smith. Such was the popularity 



and reputation of this firm that they were 
employed on one side of every case before 
the Supreme Court of JefYerson City one 
term. He was one of the organizers of the 
Exchange Bank, of which he is now presi- 
dent. He was also a stockholder and presi- 
dent of the Osage Live Stock Company, 
which still owns 5,000 acres of land in 
Osage county ; is president of the Osage Ice 
Company, which did business at Osage 
City. He was associated with P. E. Chap- 
pell, J. L. Smith and others in the Hes- 
perian Cattle Company of Texas, was pres- 
ident of the Jefferson City Land Com- 
pany which operated largely in Kansas City, 
and a number of other important financial 
interests have been guided largely by the 
councils of his well balanced mind. In ad- 
dition to his prominence and activity as a 
lawyer, he was attorney-general of Mis- 
souri during the term of Governor Wood- 
son, his administration of the office reflect- 
ing credit on himself and the judgment of 
those who honored him with the important 
trust. He represented Cole county in the 
State Legislature one term, and was a com- 
missioner of the Supreme Court of the 
State. He served in this important ca- 
pacity (which was really that of Supreme 
judge) two years, his associates being Judge 
John F. Phillips, at present United States 
district judge of Kansas City, and the dis- 
tinguished Judge Ale.xander Martin, now 
dean of the law department of the State 
University at Columbia. In this position 
his legal ability .and long experience as a 
practitioner were evidenced in tlie able 
councils and decisions made while on the 
bench. When attorney-general he instituted 
and conducted with marked skill and ability 
the great suit of the State of Missouri to set 
aside the questionable sale of the Missouri 



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Pacific railroad, made by the Republican 
administration under Governor Fletcher, 
his distinguished associates in the case be- 
ing Hon. Britton A. Hill and Frank Bow- 
man. Mr. Ewing was united in marriage 
December 12, 1855, to Miss Georgia, 
daughter of \\'alter G. and Emily A. Chiles 
of Glasgow, Missouri, in which place the 
father was a prominent merchant. Mrs. 
Ewing is a niece of the late Gen. Sterling 
("Pap") Price. General Ewing, during his 
long residence in the city of his nativity, 
has been a prominent figure in its material 
and intellectual progress. His intelligent 
and earnest opposition to the removal of the 
capital was marked and effective. He 
killed the bill for a proposition to submit 
the question to the voters when a member 
of the Legislature, and it was from his well 
poised legal mind came the able documents 
which presented tlie legal phase in opposi- 
tion to the measure. His active opposition 
to the removal continued until the important 
question was finally settled. General Ew- 
ing is a consistent member of the M. E. 
Church (South) of this city, of which he 
is a steward. He is a man of broad mind 
and liberal culture, with a rich and varied 
experience and a reputation as a citizen, 
lawyer and scholar second to none in the 
State. A\'e quote the words of a few emi- 
nent men who know him intimately. Former 
Adjutant General John B. Waddill said of 
him: "Judge H. Clay Ewing is a lawyer of 
ability, a jurist of experience, a more cap- 
able and upright citizen is not in the State."' 
Former Governor Proctor Knott of Ken- 
tucky: "H. Clay Ewing is not only a gen- 
tleman of the highest moral character, but 
one whose native ability and profound legal 
qualities have eminently fitted him for the 
exalted position of Supreme judge. I am 



able to say this from an intimate, personal 
acquaintance of more than twenty years." 
Hon. Phil. E. Chappell of Kansas City, 
former State treasurer, said of him: "After 
fifteen years intimate acquaintance I can 
say of him, he is an honest, noble and just 
man, professionally at the head of the bar 
of the State." Dr. S. S. Laws, former pres- 
ident of the Missouri State University: "I 
had the honor to know Judge H. Clay Ew- 
ing as a curator of the University, as attor- 
ney-general of our State, as a member of 
the General Assembly, and in his judicial 
capacity on the Supreme bench as commis- 
sioner, and from a close observation, I can 
not be mistaken in stating that in him I find 
the Jeffersonian qualifications for official 
trust. Inonesty. competence and fidelity." 
Col. D. H. Armstrong, former United 
States Senator from Missouri : "I have 
known H. Clay Ewing quite intimately 
nearly twenty years. He has held many 
positions of honor and trust by the votes of 
his fellow citizens, and in all of them he has 
discharged the various duties imposed hon- 
estly, faithfully and satisfactorily to the 
people." Former Governor Charles H. 
Hardin : "H. Clay Ewing of JefYerson City 
is a gentleman of high social standing, un- 
impeachable character, and a lawyer of large 
and varied experience, and a popular and 
sound jurist. He has exceptional capacity 
and learning in the law, and is a man emi- 
nently distinguished for his ability and in- 
tegrity." Judge John F. Phillips, once chief 
justice of the Court of Appeals of Kansas 
City, Missouri : "He is an able lawyer, a 
wise and conscientious judge, whose char- 
acter is above reproach and whose integrity 
is immovable." Hon. John B. Hale, a mem- 
ber of Congress from the Second district: 
"He is a man of rare character and excep- 



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tional legal attainments." Judge Robert D. 
Ray, formerly on the Supreme bench of 
Missouri : "I have known General Ewing 
for many years as an able and experienced 
lawyer, a gentleman of high character, of 
unquestioned personal integrity and pro- 
fessional standing." Judge J. L. Smith, 
presiding judge of the Court of Appeals : 
"He is a thoroughly accomplished, learned, 
able and upright lawyer and jurist." Hon. 
John W. Henry, ex-judge of the Supreme 
Court of Missouri : "He is a lawyer of high 
standing, having served with distinction as 
attorney-general of the State, and more re- 
cently as a member of the Supreme Court 
Commission. The manner in which he dis- 
charged the duties of the latter office was 
entirely satisfactory to every member of the 
court and to the bar of the State, and 
through his term of service he not only sus- 
tained, but added to his reputation as a 
lawyer of ability, and demonstrated his pos- 
session of all the qualities requisite to fit one 
for a high judicial position." The home of 
General Ewing, with his cultured wife, is 
No. 117 West High street, Jefferson City, 
Missouri. 



ARTHUR P. GRIMSHAW. 

Arthur P. Grimshaw, agent Pacific Ex- 
press Company of Jefferson City, was born 
in Nottingham, England, January 20, 1849. 
His parents, Jonathan and Eliza Maria 
(Topham) Grimshaw, came to this country 
when he was an infant, stopping in St. 
Louis, after si.x years removing to Jefferson 
City. Here the subject of this sketch re- 
ceived the educational advantages afforded 
by the city schools, after which he attended 
Wvman's Universitv of St. Louis, where he 



graduated, in 1861. He then accepted a 
position with the United States Express 
Company as messenger on the Mis- 
souri Pacific, between St. Louis and 
Atchison, Ivans., in which capacity he 
served eighteen years, and was then made 
cashier of the United States Express office 
at Atchison. Resigning this position, he 
was appointed assistant postmaster of Jef- 
ferson City under Captain Steininger dur- 
ing President Harrison's administration, 
serving one year. He was elected county 
clerk, in 1884, to fill an unexpired term of 
two years, and again elected, in 1886, for 
full term. He was appointed joint agent 
for the Pacific and United States Express 
Companies to succeed his father, Jonathan 
Grimshaw, in 1890, in connection with 
which he is ticket agent for the Chicago and 
Alton Railroad at Jefferson City. In 1891 
he was elected mayor of the city, serving 
two terms of two years each, and after an 
interval of four years, the citizens feeling 
the need of his efficient service, he was again 
elected to this important office. He was the 
first president of the Commercial Club of 
Jefferson City, and was one of the leading- 
spirits in its organization; was the first su- 
perintendent of the Jefferson City Bridge 
and Transit Company, serving two years. 

He is a Mason, member of the Blue 
Lodge, Chapter and Commandery. Is an 
active member of the Grace Episcopal 
Church, of which he is treasurer. Mr. 
Grimshaw was married September 20, 
1870, in Huntsville, O., to Miss Juliette, 
daughter of Kemp Goodlow Carter, a native 
of Richmond, Va. Their two sons, Kemp 
Goodlow and Arthur Perry, are owners and 
proprietors of the Grimshaw Brothers 
Grocery, of Jefferson City. 

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business man, whose worth is appreciated 
and recognized by the Capital City, of whicli 
he is now the official head. His recent mes- 
sage to the council is one of the cleanest, 
most practical documents which has come 
under our observation. His home is 8i6 
E. High street, Jefferson City, ^.lissouri. 



CH.\RLES B. MAUS. 

Charles B. Maus was born in Germany, 
December 3, 1823, his parents immigrating 
to America in 1830, stopping in Lancaster 
county, Pa., where his father was employed 
at an iron furnace. On the death of his 
father, 1833, his mother with her family re- 
moved to Tuscarawas county, Ohio, where 
for a time, the subject of this sketch was a 
driver on the Ohio Canal. Here he lost his 
mother. In 1840 with his only sister and 
several brothers he removed to Jefferson 
City, where, in young manhood, he com- 
menced to learn the work of a carpenter, but 
his brothers, thinking the trade of a stone 
mason a better field for good wages, sent 
him to St. Louis, where he served an ap- 
prenticeship of four years as stone cutter. 
Returning to Jefferson City in 1845, '^^ 
went immediately to Springfield, where he 
assisted in erecting a building for the 
Branch Missouri State Bank, at that place. 
The year following. 1846, he enlisted for 
the war with Mexico. On the cessation of 
hostilities he returned to Jeft'erson City 
and engaged in merchandising, his first ven- 
ture being in a small way in what was called 
a boat store, selling chickens, produce, etc., 
to the many steamers which then plied the 
Missouri River. Soon thereafter, he asso- 



ciated with Charles F. Lohman in general 
merchandising, the partnership continuing 
seven years, when the firm was dissolved, 
Mr. Maus continuing the business alone, 
first on the corner of Water and Jefferson 
streets, later removing to his present loca^ 
tion. In 1 86 1 he enlisted as a private in re- 
sponse to a call for volunteers, later being 
promoted to sergeant, lieutenant and cap- 
tain, his services as captain of Company E 
covered a period of nearly three years, 
which included the active movements occa- 
sioned by Price's raid, but most of the time 
with his company he was guarding the 
wagon trains carrying Government supplies 
from Rolla, the end of the railroad, to Sand 
Springs, some thirty miles distant. During 
his service in the war he was in a number of 
skirmishes and experienced many thrilling 
incidents, but was not wounded nor engaged 
in any of the important battles which oc- 
curred during that tragic period. Mr. Maus 
was married August 3. 1848, to Amelia Lin- 
senbarth, sister of Mrs. Charles F. Loh- 
man. To this union were born four chil- 
dren. Mr. ]Maus lost this companion by 
death January 29, 1858. He was married 
a second time, to Margaret Blochberger of 
Cole county, who was the mother of six 
children, two of whom are deceased. 
Mr. Maus is one of the oldest citizens 
of Jefferson City, it having been his 
home now more than sixty years. His 
history shows that he has responded to 
every duty required of a good citi- 
zen ; he served his country as a soldier in 
two wars, the one with Mexico and that of 
the Rebellion, and was treasurer of Cole 
County one term. He has been for more 
than half a century a member of Capital 
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pied all the ofticial chairs in the exalted 
social order from the lowest to the highest. 
He is a Republican in politics. His relig- 
ious atfiliations are with the Christian 
Scientists, of which he is a most devoted 
member. He makes his home above the 
store, corner High and Jefferson streets, a 
valuable property. In addition to his mer- 
cantile interests, he has a farm of two hun- 
dred and forty acres across the river in 
Callaway county, three miles north of Jef- 
ferson City. He has passed the alloted time 
assigned to man, but is yet vigorous, with an 
unclouded mind and gives promise of add- 
ing yet many years to his well-spent life. 
Residence address. 417 Jefferson, Jefferson 
City, Missouri. 



ALEXANDER H. HANDLAN. 

Alexander H. Handlan, president 
Handlan & Buck Manufacturing Com- 
pany, was born in Wheeling, Va., April 
25, 1844, son of Captain Alexander H. 
Handlan, for many years well known to the 
people of St. Louis, through his connection 
with the river trade. The elder Handlan 
was engaged in the river trade when steam- 
boating was in the heyday of its prosperity, 
and was a popular old-time pilot and cap- 
tain. He was for several years part owner 
of the famous steamer "Wing & Wing," 
which plied between Cincinnati and New 
Orleans, and served both as pilot and mas- 
ter of that boat. He died at Woodlawn, 
Mo., on his son's farm, at the ripe age of 
eighty-three years, respected and beloved by 
all who knew him. The son was educated 
at Herron's Seminary, of Cincinnati, being 
graduated from that institution in 1861. 



Lnmediately thereafter he became connected 
with the Quartermaster's Department of the 
United States Army, and was stationed, the 
greater part of the time, at Nashville, Tenn. 
After the war he went to Memphis, Tenn., 
and connected himself with the wholesale 
boot and shoe house of his uncle, J. T. 
Handlan, by whom he was employed for 
some time as bookkeeper. Afterward he 
was engaged in planting and merchandising 
at Greenville. Miss., and laid the founda- 
tion of his business prosperity at that place. 
He removed to St. Louis in October, 1868, 
and became connected with the railroad sup- 
ply house, of which Myron M. Buck was 
then the head. After filling different posi- 
tions in this establishment and demonstrat- 
ing his superior ability as a man of affairs, 
he became interested in the business as a 
partner and soon afterward took almost en- 
tire charge of it, Mr. Buck being absent 
from the city much of the time. In 1895 
he purchased Mr. Buck's interest, and since 
then has been at the head of one of the lar- 
gest railway supply houses in the United 
States. This establishment has in its em- 
ploy a small army of clerks, salesmen and 
assistants in various capacities, and oper- 
ates throughout a wide expanse of territory. 
Fortunate in the conduct of this enterprise 
and in the accumulation of fortune as a re- 
sult, Mr. Handlan has become interested in 
various other business ventures, chief 
among them, perhaps, being the establish- 
ment and ownership of storage warehouses, 
located in dift'erent parts of the city, con- 
venient to the railroads and the wholesale 
trade. He is president and manager of the 
M. M. Buck Manufacturing Company ; 
president of the Handlan Warehouse Com- 
pany; president of the Marquette Trust 
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mercantile enterprises. He has also been 
vice-president of the Citizens Bank, is one 
of the owners and was the originator of "the 
new Planters Hotel, and has operated ex- 
tensively in real estate. He is a member 
of the "Xoon-day," "Mercantile" and "St. 
Louis Railway" Clubs. 

September ii, 1866, he married Miss 
Marie De Prez, whose parents settled at 
Nashville, Tenn., at an early date, who was 
born in Paris, France, and comes of a dis- 
tingitished French family. Residence, Hotel 
JelTerson, St. Louis. 



NELSON C. CHAPMAN. 

Nelson C. Chapman, one of the men 
most prominently identified with the West- 
ern lumber trade, was born November 3, 
1850. in Oxford, Chenango county, N. Y., 
son of Nelson C. and Elizabeth (Gilbert) 
Chapman. His father had large lumber in- 
terests in the west, and the son came to St. 
Louis as a boy. He was educated at Wash- 
ington University, of this city, at Harvard 
University, of Cambridge, Mass., and at the 
famous German University, of Heidelberg. 
Turning his attention then to business pur- 
suits, he followed in the footsteps of his 
father and embarked in the lumber trade in 
1872, with an interest in the Eau Claire 
Lumber Company, of which his father had 
been one of the founders. Proving his ca- 
pacity by service rendered this corporation, 
he was successively made treasurer and vice- 
president of this company. He is also pres- 
ident of the Eau Claire-St. Louis Lumber 
Company, the Monroe Lumber Company. 
of Monroe, La., and the Cumberland Con- 
struction Company, of St. Louis. He is 



vice-president of the Tennessee Central 
Railway Company, and vice-president also 
of the Chemical Building Company, to 
which St. Louis is indebted for one of its 
largest and finest office buildings. His as- 
sociates in every enterprise with which he 
is identified recognize in him a man of broad 
business capacity, superior executive ability 
and the strictest integrity. To the general 
public he is known as a typical man of af- 
fairs, and a thoroughly public-spirited citi- 
zen. He is a member of the St. Louis and 
Kinloch Clubs of this city and of the Union 
League Club, of New York. Beginning life 
with a finished education, he has added to 
his accomplishments by traveling exten- 
sively both in this country and abroad, and 
he is numbered among the most liberal pa- 
trons of music and art in the cultured cir- 
cles of St. Louis. Having a natural fond- 
ness for outdoor sports, his chief recreation 
from the cares of business is found in hunt- 
ing and fishing, to which he devotes a month 
or two of each year. October 21, 1879, 
Mr. Chapman married Mary Bridge, 
daughter of Hudson E. Bridge, Sr., in his 
day one of the leading business men of St. 
Louis. Office, 721 Olive street: residence, 
4609 Berlin avenue. 



WILLLAM G. HILLS. 

William G. Hills, merchant and manu- 
facturer, was born June 26, 1841, in the 
town of Randolph, Cattaraugus county, N. 
Y., son of Calvin and Mary (Watkins) 
Hills. He was reared in a rural comnninity, 
attending the country district school during 
the winter term, and working on the farm 
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he was sent to the Chamberlain Institute, 
in the adjoining town of Randolph, and was 
a student there when the war of the Re- 
belhon broke out. Recruiting was going on 
in the village for a cavalry company to go 
into the service, and he enlisted in this com- 
pan3\ which was afterward mustered into 
the Ninth Regiment, New York Volunteer 
Cavalry, for three years. The regiment left 
the State in November, 1861, and was 
stationed around Washington until March 
9th, when they were ordered on to Ma- 
nassas. Later, they shipped for Fortress 
Monroe, and did service in front of York- 
town, and were also engaged in the battles 
of Williamsport and West Point. When the 
army reached White House Landing, the 
Ninth Cavalry were ordered to Washing- 
ton, and joined the cavalry brigade of the 
First Army Corps, Army of Virginia. Li 
October, 1862, it was assigned to the Third 
Brigade, Cavalry Division of the Army of 
the Potomac. In April, 1863, it was as- 
signed to the First Brigade, First Division, 
and in June, 1863, it became a part of the 
Second Brigade, First Division of the Cav- 
alry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, in 
which command Mr. Hills served until his 
division was ordered to the Shenandoah 
Valley. He served under General Sheri- 
dan until after the battle of Cedar Creek, in 
which, with his muster-out papers in his 
pocket, his term of service having expired, 
he was engaged from 5 a. m. until mid- 
night, and in which the brigade, including 
the Ninth New York, captured from the en- 
emy twenty-two guns and caissons, three 
hundred and thirty-five prisoners, twenty- 
nine wagons, six hundred and twenty horses 
and muleg, thirty-three ambulances, filled 
with wounded men, ten battle flags, besides 
thousands of small arms. From early in 



1862 to the close of his term of service, his 
regiment was actively engaged in raids and 
skirmishes, fighting almost constantly, and 
he was never absent a single day from the 
regiment except during three months' de- 
tached service with the Twelfth Army 
Corps. His regiment was the first engaged 
at Gettysburg, and lost the first man killed 
in that, the greatest battle of the war. Dur- 
ing the three months' detachment with the 
Twelfth Corps he participated in the Chan- 
cellorsville campaign as courier on the staff 
of General Gear}', where his experiences in 
the thickest of the fight were very exciting. 
He was one of fifty men picked from his 
regiment to accompany General Kilpatrick 
on his Richmond raid, in February and 
March, 1864. At the battle of North Fork 
(Port Republic), Va., in the Shenandoah 
Valley, September 26, 1864, he distin- 
guished himself for gallantry, and was 
awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. 
After being mustered out of the military 
service, Mr. Flills returned to New York 
State, and remained at his old home until 
March, 1866, when he came to St. Louis. 
He began his business career in this city as 
a shipping clerk for Perley, Hills & Co., in 
whose employ he remained two years. In 
1869 he became superintendent of L. M. 
Rumsey & Co.'s lead works, and held that 
position for two years thereafter. At the 
end of that time, and in the year 1871, he 
entered the employ of the Catlin Tobacco 
Company as a traveling salesman, and thus 
became identified with the business in which 
he has been conspicuously successful. In 
1882 he engaged in the manufacture and 
sale of smoking tobacco, as senior member 
of the firm of Hills & Fritz, which built up 
a business of large proportions in the next 
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partner in this establishment in 1892. The 
brands of tobacco known as "Orphan Boy" 
and "Rod and Gun" have gained wide celeb- 
rity, and have made the name of their man- 
ufacturer familiar to thousands of people 
throughout the country. In the west and 
south especially the products of his factory 
have found an extensive market, and abun- 
dant success has crowned Mr. Hill's oper- 
ations in this field of enterprise. Taking a 
pardonable pride in his military career, he 
has cherished a warm feeling of comrade- 
ship for tiie survivors of the great conflict 
of 1861-5, and ever since he has been a resi- 
dent of St. Louis he has been conspicuous 
as a member of the Grand Army of the 
Republic. He has been vice-commandef. 
Politically, he is a representative of the most 
pronounced type of Republicanism, and on 
all proper occasions takes an active interest 
in promoting the fortunes of his party. He 
married, in 1884, Miss Mattie J. i\Iiller, of 
Kankakee, Illinois, and has one child, 
Arthur Miller Hills. Retired ; residence, 
3426 Pine street, St. Louis, Missouri. 



SPEED MOSBY. 



Speed Mosby, president of the Democrat 
Printing Company, was born in Osage 
county, Missouri, at the village of Linn, 
May I, 1874. He is the youngest son of the 
late Samuel Mosby, lawyer and ex-Con- 
federate soldier, who died shortly after elec- 
tion to the Missouri Senate, in 1892; on his 
father's side, is the fourth lineal descendant 
of Capt. Hal Speed, who fell at the battle of 
Guilford Court House in the Revolutionary 
war, and on the side of his mother is the 
third lineal descendant of Sylvester Pattie, 



a Kentucky pioneer who came to Missouri 
in 1812 and who, during the war of 181 2, 
served in the American army as lieutenant 
of the Rangers. 

Mr. Mosby attended a country district 
school until thirteen years of age, when he 
began working at the printer's trade. At 
the age of seventeen he went to the State 
of California to follow that trade, but had 
worked there but a few months when fam- 
ily affairs called him home. In 1892 he 
was associated with his brother Bayard as 
editor and publisher of the Unterriticd 
Democrat, at Linn, Mo., and during that 
great "free trade" campaign the tariff ques- 
tion was discussed in his editorials with a 
degree of clearness that showed the writer 
to be perfect master of his subject. He 
wields a facile pen, and many of his essays 
are well known, a few of which may be 
briefly mentioned here. 

In 1896 his first essay on "Church Tax- 
ation" was published in the North American 
Review. The bold stand taken in defense 
of the churches, and the great scholarship 
and invincible logic which the author ar- 
rayed in defense of his position, caused the 
article to be discussed, especially in relig- 
ious circles, throughout the United States. 
It was publicly assailed in New York by 
the Rev. Madison C. Peters, while the New 
York Catholic A^nvs defended the article in 
a two-column editorial. It was translated 
into German and published in the Atucrika 
and other German papers in the west, while 
in Boston the article was catalogued by one 
of the public libraries and given a place 
among the archives of the institution on the 
subject of taxation. 

In the same year his essay on "The Fel- 
low-Servant Doctrine" appeared in the 
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which the laws on the subject, both of the 
several States and of the leading European 
nations were reviewed, attacked the fellow- 
servant doctrine as being unjust and unrea- 
sonable. Among the journals making fa- 
vorable editorial comment upon this article 
may be mentioned the National Corjwra- 
iiori Reporter of Chicago, 111. Conceiving 
the article to be a strong argument in the in- 
terest of railway labor, the Missouri Labor 
Bureau issued a special report containing 
it, and printed fifty thousand copies of the 
same, many of which were circulated in 
Missouri, contributing greatly, no doubt, to 
the popular movement which culminated in 
the enactment of the Fellow-Servant act 
of 1897. 

In 1898 he was a frequent contributor 
to the Mississippi Valley Democrat and 
Jonriml of Agriculture of St. Louis, while 
that paper was in charge of that distin- 
guished poet, rhetorician and philosopher, 
William Vincent Byars, and in that paper 
some of Mr. Mosby's best political essays 
were published, one of them entitled "Plu- 
tocracy and Poverty," being extensively 
copied by the country press in Illinois and 
Missouri. In this year also appeared his 
"Dangers of Political Apathy," in the 
North American Rcviczv. 

His articles on "Some Defects in the 
Missouri Constitution," "The Monroe Doc- 
trine," "The Growth of the Lobby System," 
all published in the St. Louis Republic, and 
his essay entitled "Politics and Pulpit," pub- 
lished in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, may 
be possibly known to the readers of this 
sketch. 

Although deprived of the opportunity 
of securing an education in the schools, he 
has always evinced the greatest interest in 
educational matters, and some of his writ- 



ings in the American Journal of Educa- 
tion and in the Missouri School Journal, are 
well known to members of the teaching pro- 
fession. He is now serving his second term 
as secretary of the Missouri State School 
Board Association, and is a member of the 
Jefferson City Board of Education. 

October 25, 1896, he was examined by 
the Judges of Division No. i of the Su- 
preme Court, and licensed to practice law, 
of which science he has now been a student 
for eight years, although his favorite study 
is history. 

He was married September 4, 1895, to 
Bertha, daughter of the late Herman Neef 
of Jefferson City. Of this union two chil- 
dren have been born. 

While Mr. Mosby has always been a 
Democrat, he writes his political creed with 
but a single word — "Justice;" and in the 
service of this principle from which all good 
doctrines flow, his voice and pen have ever 
been enlisted. He made a number of 
speeches for the Democratic nominee dur- 
ing the special Congressional campaign in 
Bland's old district in 1899, and has always 
done good work for the principles in which 
he so sincerely believes. Residence, 165 W. 
High street, Jefferson City, Missouri. 



FRANK MULLINS BROWN. 

Frank Mullins Brown, a prominent 
member of the bar of Jefferson City, was 
born in Albemarle county, Va., February 
26, 1852. When two years of age his 
father. Dr. B. D. Brown, moved to Calla- 
way county. Mo., settling on a farm, where 
the subject of this sketch was reared and re- 
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tended the Missouri State University at 
Columbia, where he graduated from the 
academic department in the class of 1878. 
After this he began the study of law in the 
office of the late Judge G. B. McFarlane 
and Mr. J. McD. Trimble at Mexico, Mo., 
where he was admitted to the bar in June, 
1880, and engaged in the practice until 
January, 1881, when he was appointed to 
the position of assistant in the office of the 
Attorney-General, Hon. D. H. Mclntyre, 
where he continued the following four years. 
In January, 1885, he was appointed Re- 
porter of the Supreme Court of Missouri, 
which office he held until July 14, 1897, 
since which time he has devoted his time en- 
tirely to the practice of his profession. In 
January, 1885, he formed a partnership 
with Edwin Silver, the firm name being Sil- 
ver 81 Brown. In July, 1887, Judge Jack- 
son L. Smith, now of the Kansas City Court 
of Appeals, became a member of the firm, it 
being Smith, Silver & Brown. In March, 
1899, Mr. Silver removed to Kansas City, 
since which time Mr. Brown has continued 
successfully in the practice alone. He was 
united in marriage May 15, 1880, to Miss 
Bettie D. French, of Mexico, Mo., daugh- 
ter of William L. and Eliza J. French. To 
this union seven children have been born . 
In the person of ]\Ir. Brown are rep- 
resented the characteristics of the Virginia 
gentleman. He is smooth and courteous in 
his social relations. During his long serv- 
ice as Reporter of the Supreme Court his 
work was most satisfactory to both the 
bench and bar, which services afforded him 
a splendid schooling for thorough equip- 
ment in the practice of his profession, an 
experience by which he has profited. He is 
president of the Business Board of the 
Christian Church, trustee o: the Tefferson 



City Library Association, and an active 
member of the Commercial Club, taking a 
deep interest in every measure for the ad- 
vancement of Jefferson City materially, in- 
tellectually and morally. His elegant home, 
with his interesting family, is 903 Jackson 
street, south suburbs of the city. 



JOHN TWEEDIE, SR. 

John Tweedie, Sr., vice-president of the 
A. Priesmeyer Shoe Co., and superinten- 
dent of the factory, was born in Moffat, 
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, September 28, 
1838. He attended school until ten years 
of age. when he engaged in learning the 
trade of slioemaking in his father's shop, 
continuing his studies at night. In 1856 
he immigrated to America, stopping first in 
New York, where he worked at his trade a 
few months, \\hen he removed to Provi- 
dence, R. I., and engaged in the work of a 
carpenter the following three years, aftet 
which he removed to Mystic, Conn., where, 
after working in the ship yard a few months, 
he returned to New York and resumed his 
trade of shoemaking. Removing to Middle- 
town. Conn., in 1861, he responded to a call 
for volunteers, enlisting in the Second Con- 
necticut, which was discharged from service 
a few months later, when, in answer to a 
second call he enlisted in the Ninth Rhode 
Island, and later in the Fifteenth Regular 
United States Infantry. He continued with 
this regiment, and during the early part of 
1864 was appointed drill sergeant at Fort 
Adams ; afterward being promoted to first 
sergeant. In 1865, when the army was re- 
organized, he was transferred to the Tiiir- 
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Tweedie was in the first battle of Bull Run 
and a number of other important engage- 
ments. He was also with General Sher- 
man in his famous campaign in Georgia. He 
received his regular discharge at Macon, 
Ga., in 1867. He then accepted the posi- 
tion of superintendent of the Andersonville 
National Cemetery. He was later superin- 
tendent of the construction of the Peabody 
School Houses put up, one each at Bain- 
bridge, Thomas\ille and Newton, for the 
United States government, and one of the 
superintendents in the construction of the 
Atlanta Barracks, Atlanta, Ga. Resigning 
in the fall of 1869, he went to St. Louis, 
where he resumed his old trade of shoe- 
making as foreman for Cochran & Linden, 
and in 1872 accepted a like position with 
A. Priesmeyer & Co., who at that time were 
conducting a store and shop in that city. In 
1874 he came with Mr. Priesmeyer to Jef- 
ferson City, where he has continued in 
charge of the factory of that now large and 
prosperous manufacturing concern since. 
On May i, 1867, Mr. Tweedie was united 
in marriage at Macon, Ga., to Anna De- 
Berufif. To this union ten children have 
been born. Charles died at the age of eigh- 
teen months and three others in infancy. 
Charles J. is an assistant to his father in 
the Priesmeyer factory. John, Jr., has charge 
of the trimming and heeling department. 
Katherine is the wife of Julius Freeman of 
St. Louis. Joseph and Julia are at home. 
Caroline is attending the public school of 
this city. 

Mr. Tweedie is a member of the G. A. 
R., the L O. O. F., the A. F. & A. M., 
Royal Arch Chapter and Commandery. He 
is also a loyal member of the Commercial 
Club and a generous suporter of all meas- 
ures recommended by that organization. His 



home is located at No. 601 East High. 
Mr. Tweedie possesses the characteristics of 
the Scotch race, pluck, energy and persever- 
ance and as a result of his well directed ef- 
forts he to-day occupies a position in the so- 
cial and business world of which he may 
justly be proud. As a citizen he is a worthy 
representative of the thrifty manufacturers 
who have located in Jefferson City and built 
up a large and prosperous business. He has 
given to his family all the advantages of a 
comfortable and well provided home as well 
as those of a modern education, and has his 
business well in hand and gives promise of 
a long life of continued usefulness. 



DR. ISAAC N. ENLOE. 

Dr. Isaac N. Enloe was born on a farm 
eight miles southeast of California, in Mon- 
iteau county, Missouri, April 29, i860, his 
early education being in the neighboring 
schools and the Clarksburg Select School. 
He graduated from the Missouri Medical 
College of St. Louis, in the class of 1883, 
locating in St. Thomas, Cole county. Mo., 
where he engaged successfully in the prac- 
tice of his profession until 1889, when he 
disposed of his property and practice to his 
brother. Dr. John S. Enloe. Going to New 
York City he took a post-graduate course in 
the Polyclinic Hospital School of Medicine. 
He located in JefYerson City, March, 1890,. 
engaging in the practice of his profession, 
which he has con^tinued since, except in 
1895, whai he took a second post-graduate 
course in the Polyclinic Hospital School of 
Medicine of New York. He was united in 
marriage October 12, 1886, to Miss Rebecca 
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this county. To this union have been 
born seven ciiildren : Loyce, Ada, David 
and Justin are attending the public schools 
of Jefferson City ; Robert and Roscoe 
(twins), bright boys; the other child, John, 
died in infancy in 1898. 

Dr. Enloe is a member of the A. F. & 
A. AI. Pie is a Republican in politics, and 
was the nominee of that party for Repre- 
sentative of Cole county in 1888 and 1894, 
being defeated by fifty-five and twenty- 
seven votes respectively, which was a com- 
plimentary result under the circumstances, 
the county being strongly Democratic. He 
is president of the Pension Board of Ex- 
amining Surgeons, and was for nine years a 
member of the Board of Education of Jef- 
ferson City, and is an active member of John 
McDowell Medical Society. His mind and 
thoughts are absorbed in the duties of his 
profession and devotion to his family. He 
is a regular subscriber to the medical jour- 
nals and a close obser\-er and reader of their 
contents, keeping fully abreast with the ad- 
vancing thoughts and experiments which 
are constantly developing new truths in this 
humane science. Dr. Enloe is a direct de- 
scendant of the Enloes who immigrated 
from Scotland to this country at an early 
day, his great-grandfather, Enoch Enloe, 
settling in York county. South Carolina, 
where he and his brother, Isaac, taught 
school and farmed, each of whom were sol- 
<liers in the Revolutionary war. James, the 
youngest son of his great-grandfather, was 
born in 1793 in York county, S. C, from 
\\hich place he moved to Tennessee. He 
also lived a short time in Kentucky, coming 
to Missouri about the year 1828, and locat- 
ing in Cole county. He was a farmer and 
stockraiser, and took an active part in poli- 
tics, representing Cole county twice and 



Moniteau county once, after that county 
was cut oft' from Cole. Enoch Enloe, the 
father of the subject of this sketch, was born 
in Barren county, Ky., May 19, 1814, com- 
ing to Missouri with his father in 1828; 
his wife was formerly Miss Jane C. Mur- 
ray. He was a farmer, and engaged in 
teaching, residing on a farm, the old home- 
stead, eight miles southeast of California, 
Moniteau county. Mo. 

The home of Dr. I. N. Enloe, with his 
interesting family, is 320 East High street ; 
business address, 104 W. High street, Jef- 
ferson City, Missouri. 



MONROE r. BELCH. 

Monroe P. Belch, attorney-at-law. form- 
erly of the firm of Pope & Belch, was born 
October 6, 1868. in Jefferson City, liis early 
education being in the public schools. Later 
he took an academic course of two years at 
the Missouri State University at Columbia. 
From 1890 to 1895, '^^ ^^''^ assistant State 
Librarian, and while in this position he fol- 
lowed his inherited taste for the legal pro- 
fession, studying law while in the library. 
He was admitted to practice by Judge Dor- 
sey W. Shakleford. now a member of Con- 
gress from this district, in 1894. In Xo- 
vember, 1895. '^^ associated with the Hon. 
W. S. Pope in the practice of law. The 
firm enjoyed a large and lucrative practice, 
their otllice being in the County Court 
House. He has )>een honored by his ward 
with the office of alderman one term. Mr. 
Belch is a son of the late distinguished J. 
Ed. Belch, who was a prominent attorney of 
Jefferson City, a member of th.e State Sen- 
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Representatives in 1879. In 1882 he was a 
strong candidate for Congress in this dis- 
trict, against the late lamented silver ad- 
vocate, R. P. Bland. Mr. Belch is a close 
student, and gives to the hnsiness of his pro- 
fession his entire attention. He is a young 
man of excellent habits. His home is with 
his mother and sisters at the old Belch home- 
stead, the place of his birth. Residence ad- 
dress, 421 E. Water street, Jefferson City, 
JMissouri. 

*—~^ 

ARTHUR M. HOUGH. 

Arthur ]\I. Hough was born in Jefferson 
City. His parents, George W. and Mary 
C. Hough, came from Loudon count}-, Va., 
and located here in 1838. He was educated 
in the public and private schools of Jeffer- 
son City, under the additional careful su- 
])ervision and instruction of his father, who 
was a man of unusual literary attainments. 
Upon leaving school he began his business 
career, when but a youth, as salesman in 
one nf tlie then largest general stores in 
Jefferson. City, and a few years later sought 
to enlarge his e.xperience by clerking on a 
lower Mississippi River steamboat, also 
making a tri]) or two to the head waters of 
the Missouri in the days when steamboating 
on both these rivers was exceptionally in- 
teresting and remunerative. In 1870 he de- 
cided to study law, and located in Kansas 
City, Missouri, reading in the office of his 
lirother. Judge Warwick Hough, and mean- 
time acting as assistant to the clerk of the 
Jackson county circuit court. He was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1872 at Kansas City. 
During the twenty-sixth and twenty-sev- 
enth General Assemblies he was in Jeffer- 
son Citv as a clerk in the Legislature. He 



was clerk in the Adjutant General's office 
under George C. Bingham, and later chief 
clerk under Gen. Jno. B. Waddill, during 
the administration of Gov. T. T. Critten- 
den. At the close of the administration he 
located permanently in this city and began 
the practice of his profession, in which he 
has since continued with gratifying success. 
Mr. Hough has taken a deep interest in 
every enterprise for the advancement of 
Jefferson City. He was one of the most in- 
telligent and active workers in opposition to 
tlie removal of the Capital to Sedalia, and 
also took an active part in securing the erec- 
tion of the new and well appointed court 
house of Cole county. He is a prominent 
member of the various branches of the Ma- 
sonic order, including the Royal Arch 
Chapter and Commandery, in all of which 
he has held important official positions. He 
was elected three times as master of Jeffer- 
son Lodge No. 43, A., F. & A. M. ; five 
times as High Priest of Jefferson City 
Royal Arch Chapter, No. 34, and seven 
times as eminent commander of Prince of 
Peace Commandery, No. 29, Knights Tem- 
plar. In 1895 '^s ^^'^^ elected grand mas- 
ter of the Grand Lodge A., F. & A. M., 
State of Missouri, and on the 25th of April, 
1900, was elected grand high priest of the 
Royal Grand Chapter of Arch Masons of 
the State. He was lieutenant-colonel on 
Governor Stone's military staff. One of his 
most important and enduring works for the 
city was his active assistance in the estab- 
lishment of the Jefferson City Public Li- 
brary, to which he was the first subscriber 
and also the first president of the board of 
trustees, which position he now holds. En- 
couraged by the success of this institution 
Mr. Hough has lately been especially active 
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Andrew Carnegie with which to erect a 
pubhc library building in Jefferson City. 
He was recently one of a committee of two 
appointed to wait upon IMr. Carnegie in 
New York City to arrange terms and con- 
ditions, and the proposition resulting from 
the conference will be submitted to a vote 
of the citizens at an early date. He is at 
present a member of the committee engaged 
in the eflfort of procuring the necessary 
funds to secure the extension of the Bagnell 
Branch of the Missouri Pacific Railway to 
Springfield, Mo. He is a most valuable 
citizen, whose well directed efforts and in- 
fluence have aided greatly in making the 
Capital City a desirable home for those 
whose aspirations are for the highest and 
best things of life. Mr. Hough has been a 
number of times appointed special judge of 
the circuit court. He has always been a 
standi Democrat, and, while not a seeker 
of official position or political honors, he 
has taken an active interest in every politi- 
cal measure for the advancement of his city, 
county and State, and is an influential fac- 
tor in the affairs of the Democratic party. 



DR. JEFFERSON L. THORPE. 

Dr. Jefferson L. Thorpe, son of Dr. 
A. B. and Abigal (Shaon) Thorpe, is a 
native of Jefferson City, where he was born 
July 5, 1862, at the home of his grand- 
father, Capt. J. T. Rodgers. His great- 
grandfather, on his mother's side, was John 
Yount, whose parents were natives of Hol- 
land, who came from Alabama early in the 
Nineteenth century and settled in Callaway 
county, opposite the Capitol building, where 
he erected the flrst brick house in that 



county. His father's ancestors came from 
England with the Puritans. He was a 
prominent physician, associated with Dr. 
Gray at California, Mo., in practice, and 
died when the subject of this sketch was 
two years of age. Dr. Thorpe's early edu- 
cation was in the public schools of Califor- 
nia, Mo., at White's Academy, and he later 
attended the State University at Columbia, 
Mo. Early following his inherited inclin- 
ation for the science of medicine he began 
the study in Dr. Gray's office, of California, 
Mo., which was followed by a short period 
with Dr. Davison, of Jefferson City, after 
which he entered the St. Louis Medical Col- 
lege, graduating from there in the class of 
1886, when he located in Jefferson City in 
the practice of his profession. He was soon 
after appointed to fill the unexpired term 
of Dr. A. D. Standish, at the State Prison, 
in which position he served about two years, 
and declined further appointment by Gov- 
ernor Morehouse. He was appointed dis- 
trict surgeon of the Missouri Pacific Rail- 
way Company in 1887, and continues to 
serve the corporation in that capacity. He 
was secretary of the Board of Pensions 
eleven years (1887-1898). In the fall of 
1893 he was elected on the Democratic 
ticket as coroner of Cole county, in which 
position he qualified and immediately re- 
signed. In 1896 he took a post-graduate 
course in the Polyclinic School of Medicine 
of New York City. He was united in mar- 
riage October i, 1889, to Helen C, daugii- 
ter of Capt. W. C. Thomas, a wealthy citi- 
zen of California, Mo. He is a member of 
Jefferson Lodge, A. F. & A. M., No. 43, 
a Knight Templar, a member of the Broth- 
erhood of Elks and Medical E.xaminer of 
the M. W. A. He is a man of fine physique, 
unusually favored by nature in personal ap- 



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pearance and enjoys perfect health. He 
has a large and growing practice. His ele- 
gant and well appointed home is iii West 
High street, which is presided over by his 
charming wife, and is brightened by the 
presence of his lovely daughter, Mildred. 
Business address, 126 E. High street, Jef- 
ferson City, Missouri. 



MRS. FRANK PALMER GRANT. 

Mrs. Frank Palmer (nee Mary Wis- 
dom) Grant, church worker and writer, is a 
native of Missouri, her birthplace being the 
old historical town of Huntsville, the ju- 
dicial seat of Randolph county. Her father, 
William Monroe Wisdom, was of one of the 
most prominent families of the State, a man 
highly educated, being a graduate of several 
colleges, and one whose inheritance and as- 
sociation with the refining influences of sev- 
eral generations of highly cultured men and 
women made of him a most distinguished 
and cultured gentleman. He was many 
years of his life a prominent and wealthy 
banker of Huntsville, whose financial loss 
was doubtless a circumstance which led his 
now distinguished and talented daughter, to 
be a much more useful and valuable member 
of society than if she had continued in the 
luxurious home of wealthy and indulgent 
parents. Her mother was Miss Anna Car- 
penter Hallack, a granddaughter of Station 
George Carpenter, of Kentucky, a distin- 
guished and prominent character of the Blue 
Grass State. The mother of Mrs. Grant 
(Mrs. Anna Hallack Wisdom, now of 
Houston, Tex..) is regarded by those who 
know her and have had the good fortune to 
associate with and observe her character 

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and life, as one of the most noble of a noble 
class of Christian women, which now grace 
the membership of the Christian church, 
and one whose whole impulse is to do good, 
more fully described as one of those char- 
acters in whose presence one can not think 
a mean thought or speak an ungenerous 
word. From such parentage, with the added 
blessing of being required by what some 
would call a misfortune (the loss of wealth) 
to engage in the practical stern duties of 
life, it is not strange that she has developed 
into a broad-minded and useful woman. 
The early education of Mrs. Grant was in 
her native town where she attended school, 
going from the palatial home of her parents. 
When fourteen years of age, her father 
having suffered heavy financial losses, she 
opened a private school in his home for the 
purpose of securing means to aid in the com- 
pletion of her education. She was later a 
student of the high school of St. Louis, after 
which she attended the famous Christian 
College at Columbia, Mo., (the "Athens" of 
the State), where she graduated, the vale- 
dictorian of her class, her mother being a 
graduate of the same institution just a quar- 
ter of a century before. She taught Eng- 
lish and History in this college for several 
years, when she resigned to take charge of 
the Department of English in "Our Daugh- 
ters' " College of Fulton, Mo. The grow- 
ing responsibilities of teacher added earnest- 
ness to her naturally intense nature, mar- 
riage and motherhood deepened and en- 
riched her character, and the sum of these 
forces can be felt in her work in the Sun- 
day Schools of the State of which she is one 
of the most active and effective workers, 
being at present State superintendent of 
Sunday School Work of the Christian 
Church of Missouri. After her marriage 



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to ^Ir. Grant (a prominent and successful 
business man, and now a director and secre- 
tary of the Giesecke Boot and Shoe Manu- 
facturing Company, of Jefferson City, Mo.) 
she for some years made her home in St. 
Louis, where she continued until her hus- 
band became interested in the above manu- 
facturing business, and in consequence re- 
moved to this city. While in St. Louis she 
was superintendent of the Sunday-School 
of the Central Christian Church, being the 
only lady who occupied that important po- 
sition in that city, she being at the time lec- 
turer of the Sunday-School Union, and did 
much valuable work among all denomina- 
tions of St. Louis. Since leaving St. Louis, 
Mrs. Grant has resigned as superintendent 
of the Sunday-School, but her field has 
broadened. She contributes regularly to 
Sunday-School publications under the head 
of "Help for Primary Teachers." Her 
timely notes and suggestions aid the teach- 
ers greatly in their noble work, and give 
evidence of her close and analytical study 
of the Book of books. Mrs. Grant has been 
exceedingly fortunate in her marriage, 
which occurred at the home of her parents 
in Huntsville on August 19, 1891, her hus- 
band's ideas on social and religious life be- 
ing in perfect harmony with her own and 
their domestic relations being ideal. To 
this union has been born a son. Bartin Stone, 
a bright boy, the three making a most 
charming and interesting family circle. We 
give a few quotations from the press : The 
Christian Evangelist, April 26, 1900: "Mrs. 
Mary Wisdom Grant is the foremost pri- 
mary teacher and writer of the Christian 
Church." Rev. F. G. Tyrrell, pastor of the 
Central Christian Church of St. Louis: "I 
am glad in the first place to know that Mrs. 
Grant is a reading, thinking woman, and in 



the second place that she knows how to 
give her intellectual store to others." "Our 
Young Folks" of December, 1899, says: 

"Mrs. Mary Wisdom Grant, w^ho is our 
primary assistant, has given great satisfac- 
tion during the first year of our work. Her 
primary talks have become famous and 
words of appreciation have come from vari- 
ous and prominent sources." Nevada Mail: 
"Mrs. Mary Wisdom Grant, though still a 
young woman, has a national reputation as 
a writer, orator and lecturer ; though logical 
and instructive, her talks are never tiresome. 
She cleverly combines humor, pathos and 
eloquence, and never fails to inspire her 
audience, and draw out the best in the peo- 
ple." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat in its 
report of the International Christian Con- 
vention at Sedalia : "There were many 
prominent workers from other States pres- 
ent. The strongest and by far the most in- 
teresting address at the convention was that 
of Mrs. Mary Wisdom Grant. She is a 
natural orator, and easily held the attention 
of th^ large and uncomfortably crowded 
audience." Mexico Ledger of June, 1898: 
"Mrs. Mary Wisdom Grant is a natural, 
graceful and easy speaker. In her self-for- 
getfulness and earnestness she carried her 
audience to a high pitch of patriotic enthus- 
iasm, her remarks being followed by a 
deafening applause. During the entire ses- 
sion of the convention her ready wit and 
prompt and timely response to all questions 
were much enjoyed." Christian Evangelist 
of February 8, 1900: "Few women or men 
are more self-possessed in public speaking 
than Mrs. Grant, and few are more an- 
alytical in their methods. There is nothing 
slow or dry in her public addresses. Her 
leading line of work, however, is in the 
Sunday-School." Mr. W. H. Balthis. editor 



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and publisher of the Huntsville Herald, in 
speaking of a Christian service in which 

Mrs. Grant took part on a visit to Hunts- 
ville, says : "Mrs. Grant held the close at- 
tention of the congregation the entire eve:i- 
ing, the packed condition of the church 
showing the love and esteem in which she 

is held better than words could express. 
Huntsville was the scene of her childhood 
and watched her ripen into young woman- 
hood. Since leaving her native village the 
years have crowned her with good grace 
and noble traits of character until she is now 
one of the leading women of the land in 
Christian w'ork." W. W. Hopkins, in the 
Christian Evangelist of June 24, 1S97: 
"The closing scenes of the Bible school work 
led by Sister F. P. Grant held the well- 
filled house for three years on a hot after- 
noon, her ability to reach, interest and in- 
struct an audience is certainly remarkable. 
Her ready wit and wisdom kept her au- 
dience in a state of joyful expectancy 
from first to last." The Outlook of Cincin- 
nati, O., a prominent publication of the 
Christian Church, in reporting an important 
meeting at Houston, Tex., April 28, 1900, 
says : "Mrs. Grant understands how to 
speak to scholars about their souls, and after 
a beautiful talk of ten minutes in response 
to an appeal seventeen came forward." Mrs. 
Grant has cast her lot with the Christian 
Church at this place, and both the congre- 
gation and Sunday-School have been greatly 
enriched by her presence and active and 
effective work. In addition to her intellec- 
tual attainments she is a fine musician, play- 
ing on both piano and guitar, and has a rich, 
highly cultured contralto voice, which she 
freely uses in the song service of the 
church and Sunday-School. She also has 
exceptional talent as an artist, which she 



uses effectively in illustrating her otherwise 
highly interesting lectures and talks. Her 
special work in the church has been in en- 
listing young men and women in making 
the church attractive and Bible study inter- 
esting for them. Like her mother, she is 
intensely interested in young people, and 
generally beloved by them. She has a pe- 
culiar way of winning their confidence, and 
has thus helped many a boy and girl out of 
trouble, and started them on the road to a 
higher life. She believes religion is help- 
ing people, and uses much of her time in a 
tactful way in securing positions for deserv- 
ing young men and women. Some of Mrs. 
Grant's best lectures are along the line of 
development of spiritual power, she is par- 
ticularly happy in her talks to children, and 
never fails to enlist their sympathy and at- 
tention, in this department her services are 
in demand by all denominations. Mrs. 
Grant, in addition to her bright, highly cul- 
tured mind and many accomplishments, is 
highly favored physically. She has every 
promise of a useful life, and her sphere of 
usefulness will not be limited within the 
scope of any one city, county or state. Res- 
idence, Jefferson City, Missouri. 



MARK R. CHARTRAND. 

Mark R. Chartrand, president Bornes 
Gas Company of Monon, Ind., prominent 
business man of St. Louis, and also in the 
politics of the State of Missouri, was born 
January ig, 1858, in Carondelet, now a 
part of St. Louis, son of Michael and Ame- 
lia (Guion) Chartrand. He was born in 
the first brick house built in Carondelet, 
which is still standing on Broadway, be- 



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tween Hill and Iron streets. At the time of 
his birth, his father was mayor of Caron- 
delet, and in the fall of 1858 the elder Chart- 
rand was elected to the Legislature of Mis- 
souri, serving in that body during the years 
1859 and 1S60. In both the paternal and 
maternal lines, Mr. Chartrand comes of old 
French families, and prior to 1865 the 
Chartrands and Guions were the owners of 
a large proportion of the real property of 
Carondelet. From 1873 to 1874 he held a 
position in the office of Mayor Joseph 
Brown, and in 1875 was appointed custo- 
dian of records in the office of the recorder 
of deeds by Recorder D. H. MacAdam. He 
held this position until 1881, when he be- 
came a special rate clerk in the general 
offices of the Wabash Railroad Company. 
In 1889 he resigned this position to accept 
an agency of the Mutual Life Insurance 
Company of New York, retaining his con- 
nection with that company until March 31, 
1898. April I, 1898, he became manager 
for Missouri of the United States Life In- 
surance Company of New York, and April 
13th following was appointed by the circuit 
court of St. Louis receiver of the North 
End Building & Loan Association. This 
association was, at the time its affairs were 
taken charge of by the court to be wound 
up, the largest loan association in tlie State, 
and Mr. Chartrand devoted much of his 
time to the final settlement of its business. 
Since early manhood he has been an active 
member of the Republican party, having 
cast his first presidential vote for James A. 
Garfield. He has been a delegate to almost 
every State and city convention of the Re- 
publican party held since 1886. and is an 
active participant in the management of 
party afifairs. He joined the Third Baptist 
Church in 1881, and has since been a mem- 



ber of that church, being a regular sub- 
scriber to the Baptist Orphans" Home and 
other kindred charitable institutions, and 
having also been a member of the commit- 
tee which raised the first funds for the estab- 
lishment of the Memorial Home located on 
South Grand avenue. He has served as su- 
preme vice-chancellor of the Legion of 
Honor, of St. Louis, has been for ten years 
recorder of Compton Hill Council No. 9, 
of the Legion of Honor, was Senate Deputy 
for Missouri of the National Union from 
1885 to 1890, and is a member of the order 
of Knights of Pythias and Royal Arcanum. 
Residence address, 786 N. Euclid avenue, 
St. Louis, Missouri. 



RUDOLPH DALLMEYER. 

Rudolph Dallmeyer, president and treas- 
urer of the R. Dallmeyer Dry Goods Com- 
pany of Jefferson City, is the youngest son 
of the family of nine children of R. H. and 
Pauline Dallmeyer, of Dissen, Province of 
Hanover, Germany, where the subject of 
this sketch was born January 27, 1857. He 
enjoyed the educational advantages of the 
place of his birth until at the age of less 
than fifteen he left his parental roof to seek 
his fortune in the New World. His first 
stop was in St. Louis, where for three years 
he occupied a position in a prominent dry 
goods house. In 1874 he came to Jefferson 
City and was made manager of the dry 
goods store of J. T. Craven & Co., W. Q. 
Dallmeyer being one of the firm, the name 
of which was afterwards changed to Dall- 
meyer & Co. In 188 1 he embarked in the 
business of his choice, that of dry goods, on 
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street, now ocupied by George Pope. His 
business, under his successful and active di- 
rection soon out-grew the capacity of this 
store, when Mr. Hugo Monnig built for him 
a building two doors south of his old stand, 
to which he removed and occupied both 
floors. In 1889 he adopted the cash system, 
which carried with it the attendant advan- 
tages and enabled him to give so much bet- 
ter values to his customer, that his business 
has since continued to enlarge. With his 
greatly increasing trade, Mr. Dallmeyer 
found it necessary to secure larger and more 
commodious quarters for his rapidly grow- 
ing business, which fact decided him to en- 
large and improve his property on East 
High street, to which he moved in October, 
1898, and which the firm at present occu- 
pies, it being the largest and most complete 
dry goods house in Central Missouri, the 
dimensions of which are 40 by 150 feet, the 
business occupying the basement and first 
floor, which is finished throughout in pol- 
ished oak, heated with hot water, lighted 
by electricity and gas, supplied with the cash 
carrier system, in fact, every modern appli- 
ance and convenience which can be found in 
the largest houses of the great cities are 
here utilized. In 1896 he incorporated his 
business under the name of R. Dallmeyer 
Dry Goods Company. Mr. Dallmeyer was 
united in marriage on St. Valentine's Day, 
1878, to Louise, daughter of the late Frank 
Schmidt (who was a prominent and one of 
the most enterprising citizens of Jefferson 
City. He built a number of its best build- 
ings, among them the Madison House, the 
largest hotel in the city.) To this union 
have been born five children: Frank ^\^, a 
young man of excellent habits and business 
training, is secretary of the R. Dallmeyer 
Dry Goods Company; Miss Pauline, a 



highly cultured young lady of a most charm- 
ing personality, has just returned from 
Europe, after three and one-half years in 
perfecting an education in select private 
schools of Germany and Switzerland; Ma- 
thilde K., is attending the high school of 
Jefferson City; Charles Herman, his fourth 
child, he had the misfortune to lose at the 
interesting age of one year ; Alvin Rudolph, 
seven years of age, is attending the private 
school of Miss Epps of this city. Mr. 
Dallmeyer is a member of the Evangelical 
Central Church, of which he has been a 
trustee a number of years. In addition to 
his large mercantile interests, he is asso- 
ciated with others in valuable mining prop- 
erties near Joplin, and is also interested in 
mines of the more precious metals at Cripple 
Creek and other parts of Colorado. It may 
be truly said of Mr. Dallmeyer that he is 
one of the brightest and most thorough dry 
goods merchants in the State of Missouri, 
the business of which he is head being the 
largest and best managed within the State, 
outside of the large cities. His untiring and 
well directed efforts, since his youth, when 
he first launched his bark in Missouri, have 
been attended with uniform and continued 
success, not as a result of accident, but by 
thorough training of his well balanced mind, 
coupled with unceasing industry, impelled 
by an ambitious spirit, supported by an al- 
most perfect physical manhood. He has 
been wise in selecting thorough business 
men as associates, and in employing only 
the most competent assistants, yet his care- 
ful and observing eye still watches closely 
every feature of his immense business. He 
is a man blessed with excellent health and a 
bright mind, and although he has been a 
continuous and persistent worker since a lad 
of fifteen, is as active and vigorous as when 



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first he embarked on the sea of commerce. 
His most interesting and highly cultured 
family enjoy with him the comforts of a 
well regulated home at "Maple Terrace," 
on East High street, Jefferson City, Mis- 
souri. 



CHARLES S. JOBES. 

Charles S. Jobes. Banker. Born in 
Jennings county, Ind., April 23, 1853. Son 
of Andrew C. Jobes (deceased) and Mary 
C. French. Educated in the county schools 
of Mahoning county, Ohio. Was a laborer 
on a farm, and a brick yard hand from 
eleven to seventeen years of age; from sev- 
enteen to eighteen, coal miner; eighteen to 
ninteen, civil engineer; nineteen to twenty, 



railroad and levee construction in Missis- 
sippi. Built, as a contractor, the second 
largest levee on the Mississippi river when 
twenty-one years of age. Located in Kan- 
sas, engaging in banking, in 1887. In 1898 
appointed national bank examiner for the 
territory of Kansas, Indian Territory, Mis- 
souri, and south of Platte river in Ne- 
braska. Resigned to accept presidency of 
American National Bank of Kansas City. 
Belongs to the Masonic order. Religion, 
Methodist. Politics, Republican. 

]\Ir. Jobes was married to Alma G. Tay- 
lor, December 30, 1875, in Kosciusko, 
Miss. Seven children born: Harry C, 
Mary E., Annie M., Charles T., Ollie C, 
Hannah A. and William R. Business ad- 
dress, American Bank building; residence 
address, 3236 Paseo. 



INDEX 

BIOGRAPHIES 



A PAGE 

Aaron, William L 207 

Abadie, Eugene Hilarian 16 

Abbott, Augustus L 152 

Adams, Heber W. Jr 232 

Aiple, Albert J 15S 

Albus, Jr., John 27i 

Allen, Andrew Aniel 413 

Allen, Arthur Mason 306 

Ashbrook, Thomas R 428 

Ashley, Henry Delancy 211 

B 

Babcock, J. L 117 

Bacon, Frederick Hampden 227 

Bagnell, William 83 

Baker, Alden A 11 

Baker, Henry A 2^7 

Ball, Otha Fisher 417 

Barclay, Shepard 252 

Bard, W. E., Sr 414 

Bard, William Evans 414 

Barnett, George Dennis 189 

Barnett, Tom P 187 

Barret, James V. S 80 

Barrington, Frank C 301 

Barron, John 48 

Bartholdt, Richard 355 

Bartlett, Herschel i 

Barwick, Oliver James 330 

Bates, Charles Woolson 357 

Battle, Cullen A 224 

Battle, Jesse Mercer 226 

Belch, Monroe P •. 464 

Bell, Nicholas Montgomery 295 

Benkendorf, Theodore J. A 391 

Bennett, E. A 190 

Bemays, August Charles 86 

Berry, George D 369 

Biggs, William fi 77 

Binder, Frederick H 47 



PAGE 

Birge, Julius Charles 355 

Bischofif, Henry 82 

Bittinger, Major John L 299 

Bixby, William K 172 

Blackwell, Arthur Malcolm 243 

Bland, Charles Clelland 68 

Blanke, Cyrus F 73 

Blevins, John Alexander 78 

Block, Leon 332 

Blodgett, Wells H 131 

Blossom, Henry Martyn 399 

Boland, John Vincent 347 

Bond, Henry Whitelaw 68 

Bonham, Archibald K 66 

Boogher, Howard 246 

Boogher, Jesse L 247 

Boogher, John H 58 

Bothwell, John Homer 221 

Bowman, William Calvin 372 

Boyd, William Goddm z^^i 

Boyle, Wilbur F 76 

Branch, Lawrence O'Brien 50 

Brennan, Martin S 81 

Bretnor, Edward Lee 331 

Brewster, Arthur W 20 

Bridgeford, Churchill G 373 

Briggs, Waldo 79 

Brinsmade, Hobart 232 

Brokaw, Dr. Augustus Von Lieu 404 

Brotherton, William S 92 

Brown, Alanson D 423 

Brown, Charles Swing 81 

Brown, Frank Mullins 461 

Brown, George Warren 87 

Brown, J. Bachman 374 

Brown, Paul 222 

Brown, Stephen Sanford 167 

Brownell, Frederick B 85 

Bruce, Robert M I77 

Brueggeman, Albert Herbert 74 

Bruns, J. B 45o 



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INDEX 



PAGE 

Buck, Myron M 424 

Buder, Eugen« 376 

Bull, James Morgan 295 

Burch, Oscar G 4SI 

Burch, Walter 239 

Burmeister, N 372 

Burnett, Douglas 63 

Bumham, James Kellogg 228 

Burnhart, William Randolph 357 

Busch, Adolphus 129 

C 

Caflfee, Amos H. 220 

Cairns, Anna Sneed 94 

Call, George William 376 

Campbell, Dr. James Alexander 346 

Campbell, James 357 

Campbell, Charles 437 

Carelton, Murray 423 

Carlisle, James L 76 

Carpenter, James M 10 

Carson, Gibbon 353 

Casteel, Benjamin J 45- 

Catlin, Daniel 353 

Chamberlain, Elliott Howard 27 

Chamberlain, Frederick B 27 

Chandler, DeLacy 358 

Chapman, Nelson C 45^ 

Chappell, Phillip E 422 

Chartrand, Mark R 469 

Choate, John W., M. D 438 

Chouteau, Pierre 67 

Church, Alonzo Christy 100 

Clapp, Chambers Brown 263 

Clark, Champ 417 

Clark, Cyrus Edgar 38 

Clark, Cyrus F 238 

Gark, Dr. William Alfred 73 

Clarke, William Bingham 270 

Clear, Philip D 223 

Clopton, William Hickman 291 

Cochran, Hon. Charles Fremont 297 

Cockerill, Almond B I 

Codding, Elroy E 38 

Collins, Charles Cummings 28 

Collins, John P 401 

Collins, Monroe R 352 

Collins, Robert Eli 350 

Colnon, Redmond S 84 

Conner, Dr. Washington Jarvis 145 

Conroy, P. E 31 

Cook, Douglas G 358 



PAGE 

Cook, Francis Edmiston 120 

Corley, John Sanford 4 

Cox, Wiley C 153 

Craig. Hugh W 452 

Crenshaw, Dr. J. H 445 

Crossen, Harry Sturgeon 84 

Crow, Edward Gay 241 

Crunden, Frederick ]\Iorgan 276 

Crutcher, Edwin Ruthven 370 

Gushing, Charles Clarence 242 

D 

Dallmeyer, William Augustus 45 

Dallmeyer, Rudolph 470 

Davidson, Frank C 84 

Davis, James M 6 

Dean, Dell J 430 

Dean, Oliver Hays 431 

Dean, Owen Martin 75 

De France Josephine, B. S. D. 442 

Delany, Dr. John O'Fallon 386 

Desnoyers, Jerome B 285 

Dew, Jeremiah T 335 

Dickey, Walter S 429 

Diekmann, Louis C 406 

Dietz, Charles F 87 

Dobyns, Rev. William Ray 369 

Doggett, Frederick Sterling 430 

Dolman, John Elbert 219 

Donk, August F. 324 

Donk, Edmund Charles 238 

Donovan, John 98 

Donovan, Joseph T 165 

Dozier, Lewis D 69 

Drey, Eugene 67 

Drey, Leo A 93 

Drey, Walter 92 

Dulnny, George William s 

Dulle, Henry J 49 

Duncan, Albert B 342 

Duncker, Henry 233 

Dunham, Samuel S 214 

Dunshee, Walter D 329 

Durant, George F 409 

Duvall, William Franklin 234 

E 

Eckel, Edmond J Si 

Edwards, Nelson Green I54 

Eisman, David 157 

Englehart, William Frew 220 

Enloe, Dr. Isaac N 463 



INDEX 



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PAGE 

Estep, Thomas B 210 

Estes, Frank M i S3 

Ettmueller, Dr. Gustave 119 

Evans, Daniel 209 

Evans, Thomas W 359 

Ewing, General Henry Clay 453 

Ewing, Nat W 151 

F 

Fairman, Chauncey Parmaley 228 

Faucett, Robert H 102 

Faxon, Frank A 142 

Feiner, Frank IS9 

Felt, John H 341 

Fenn, Bertrand Frederick 163 

Ferris, Forrest G 264 

Ferriss, Franklin 251 

Field, Oscar Addison iii 

Fisher, John A 166 

Fleming;, William Scott 163 

Flint, John Donovan 359 

Flitcraft, Pembrook Reeves 156 

Flower, Henry Corwin 372 

Folk, Joseph Wingate 294 

Force, Thomas Huston 439 

Ford, Owen 407 

Foster, Thomas Walter 206 

Francis, Arthur G , 407 

Francis, David Rowland 437 

Francisco, John Steele 250 

Franciscus, James M 112 

Frank, Dr. John N 347 

Frank, Nathan 396 

French, Dr. Pinckney 387 

French, Hugh Murray 166 

French, John Andrew, M. D 435 

Frey, Robert Walter loi 

Friedman, Jacob 105 

Frink, Seth 164 

Fruin, Jeremiah 158 

Fry, William Wallace 33 

Fuller, Aaron 159 

Funkhouser Robert M 286 

G 

Gage, John Cutter 368 

Gale Arthur H 365 

Gallagher, Thomas M 66 

Gait, Smith P 283 

Gannt, James Britton 113 

Carman, John E 118 

Garner, James W 141 



PAGE 

Garrison, Oliver Lawrence 411 

Garstang, Charles Edward 206 

Gauss, Charles F 138 

Gehner, August 75 

Geiger, Jacob 65 

Gentles, John 387 

George, Jonathan Warren 227 

Georgia, William E 203 

Ghio, James C 167 

Gibbs, Milton Henry 350 

Gibson, Judge James 348 

Glaser, Adolph 230 

Glaser, Julius 204 

Glaser, Sigmund 207 

Goddard, George H 278 

Goldman, Samuel 112 

Goodbar, James William 245 

Grant, Mrs. Frank Palmer 467 

Graves, William E 386 

Graves, William Washington 404 

Green, Charles 74 

Green, James 356 

Gregory, Charles Rush 292 

Gregory, Eugene B iil 

Grenner, Henry Clay 321 

Griffin, George Henry 229 

Grimm, J, Hugo 285 

Grimshaw, Arthur P 455 

Griswold, Joseph L 205 

Grundmann, Dr. F. William 407 

Guthrie, John A 258 

Guy, William E 293 

H 

Haarstick, William T 93 

Hadley, Leo. G 83 

Haesler, Albert H 247 

Hagerman, Frank 183 

Hagerman, James 215 

Hahn, William H 321 

Hales, John R 213 

Haley, Thomas Preston, Jr 87 

Hall, C. Lester 351 

Hall, Edward Feningtos 214 

Hall, William G 139 

Hamilton, Charles Edwin 211 

Hamilton, Henry Alexander 255 

Hammer, Ludwig Frederick 155 

Handlan, Alexander H 457 

Hanick, Michael 354 

Harlan, Thomas B 215 

Harlow, Frank 338 

Harris, Virgil M 212 



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PAGE 

Harrison, John W 347 

Hartvvig, Ernest F 39 

Hartwig, Major Henry R. W 339 

Hayner, Lon 206 

Hays, John Middleton 256 

Hays, Joseph M 374 

Hecht, Max 59 

Hedrick, Ira Grant 19 

Heil, Henry 167 

Heim, Rudolph F 334 

Hermann, Oscar 208 

Hendy, Rev. John Fenton 42 

Hettel, Charles R 65 

Herzog, Fred J 62 

Herzog, Herman 63 

Hewitt, Charles F 140 

Hills, William G 458 

Higdon, John Clark 210 

Higgins, Albert Willis 244 

Hildebrand, Adolph J 80 

Hildenbrandt, Ernst A 368 

Hirsch, Ralph 364 

Hoagland, Theodore B 336 

Hofniann, Ernest G 229 

Hofmann, Frederick W 230 

Hogg, Edwin R 32 

Holeman, Minard LaFever 237 

Holman, John B 282 

Holmes, Daniel Boone yi 

Holmes, Walton H 9 

Homer, William Bradford 291 

Homeyer, Herman August 376 

Holtcamp, Charles W 213 

Hopkins, James L 215 

Horn, Frank N 300 

Hoss, Granville S 292 

Hoss, Oliver Heber 242 

Hough, Arthur M 465 

Hough, Warwick Massey 250 

Houser, Daniel Malott 212 

Houston, Thomas Force 439 

Houts, Charles Alfred 249 

Hovis, Miller White 209 

Howard, John Lewis 378 

Hucke, Philip M 409 

Hudson, William Dunham 92 

Hughes. Dr. Charles Hamilton 173 

Hundley, Harry Marvin 137 

Hunt, Dr. Ella A 446 

Huttig, Charles H 422 

Huttig, William 349 

Hypes, Benjamin Murray 85 



P.\GE 
I 

Ives, Halsey Cooley 268 

J 

Jackson, Abram Davenport 239 

Jackson, Mrs. Elizabeth Rees 255 

James, Samuel C 26 

James, Hon. William K 55 

Jameton, Jean 148 

Jennings, Jesse Williams 15 

Jewett, Daniel T 145 

Jobes, Charles S 47-2 

Johnson, Charles P 424 

Johnson, Harold 115 

Johnson, Jackson 150 

Johnson, John Davis 146 

Johnson, William Tell 223 

Johnston, Elijah Emory 117 

Jolley, Mac H 146 

Jones, Breckinridge 151 

Jones, Dr. Meredith Dabney 443 

Jones, Lawrence Monroe 59 

Jones, Stonewall J 224 

Joy, Charles Frederick 150 

Judson, Frederick Newton 104 

K 

Kaime, David F 169 

Kchr, Edward C 147 

Keirch, Robert George 141 

Keith, Charles S 234 

Keith, Richard H 106 

Kendall, William Roy 388 

Kennard, John Burton 148 

Kerens, Richard C 147 

Kier, Dr. William F 394 

King, Dr. Alfred Byron I77 

King, Arthur J 367 

Kinsella, William J 133 

Klein, Jacob 201 

Knott, John A 3 

Kortjohn, Henry 149 

Kron, August 401 

Krone, Charles Ferdinand 245 

Krum, Chester Harding 172 

L 

Ladd, Sanford Burritt 32 

Laird, John Alfred 152 

Lamm, Henry 105 

Langenberg, Frederick J 246 



INDEX 



477 



PAGE 

Lathrop, Gardiner 13 

Lawson, Claude Champlain 237 

Lebrecht, John Charles 375 

Lehmann, Frederick William 175 

Lightholder, William P 181 

Limbird, James 27 

Link, Theodore C I54 

Little, Andrew B 208 

Lloyd, Hiram 62 

Lombard, James L 10 

Long, Robert Alexander 14 

Longan, George F 116 

Loose, Joseph Schull 371 

Lubke, George W 114 

Lucas, John B. C 133 

Ludwig, Charles V. F 302 

Lutz, Frank Joseph 287 

Lyon, Andrew Reason 432 

Lyons, Leslie James 29 

M 

McCaslin, Frank James 323 

McChesney, William S., Jr 319 

McConkin, William N 248 

McCormack, Charles Beatie 383 

McCune, Henry L 61 

McDougal, Judge Henry Clay 231 

McElray, Hugh L 303 

McElwce, Dr. Lucien Claude 382 

McGruder, Mark Austin 1S6 

Mclndoe, Hugh 360 

McKeighan, John E 137 

McKittrick, Hugh 317 

McKittrick, Thomas H 315 

McLaran, William H 294 

McLure, C. Derickson 169 

McNair, Lilburn G 330 

McNeil, Gordon C 442 

McPheeters, Thomas S 405 

Mahan, George A 142 

Marshall, John P 324 

Martin, Dr. Tilly A 400 

Martin, Edward Lowe 8 

Martin, John 1 135 

Marx, Harry N 3x5 

Mather, Joseph 222 

Mathudy, Adolph E 205 

Maus, Charles B 456 

Mayfield. William Henderson 70 

Mayo, William Henry 219 

Medart, William 311 

Meistcr, Otto Ferdinand 311 



PAGE 

Mellier, Walter G 60 

Mendel, William 330 

Menown, James 238 

Meriwetlier, Lee 298 

Merrell, Jacob Spencer 259 

M«yer, August R 390 

Michael, Elias 323 

Michaelis, August C 216 

Miller, Alfred J 314 

Miller, Harry Sebastian 187 

Milligan, Rockwell Menotti 240 

Million, John Wilson 21 

Moore, Jason Harvey 261 

Moore, Robert 266 

Morlit, Thomas Garrison 315 

Mosby, Speed 460 

Mott, Col. Henry T 262 

Moynihan, Patrick J 165 

Mulvihill, Thomas Edward 312 

N 

Nagel, Charles 202 

Nave, James Revel 449 

Nelson, Lewis C 310 

Nelson, Nelson 410 

Newberry, Frederick Earnest 381 

Newman, Dr. Louis E 406 

Nicholls, Charles C l63 

Nicholson, Clarence M 313 

Nicolaus, Henry 381 

Niemann, Gustave Wm 314 

Noble, Gen.John WiUock 421 

Nolker, William F 377 

Noonan, Robert M 182 

O 

Orear, Celsus 19S 

Orthwein, William D 320 

Ott, Albert Mohr 244 

P 

Palmer, Clarence Steuben 251 

Paquin, Ozias 242 

Parker, Lester S 109 

Parker, George W 241 

Parsons, Durbin Irving 21 

Parsons, Orlando Edward 103 

Patrick, James E 31 

Paulus, John Daniel 332 

Peers, E. Porter 93 

Pcet, William 305 



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INDEX 



PAGE 

Pennell, Arthur 203 

Penny, Alexander 403 

Perry, John 12 

Pert, Henry G 194 

Pfeiffer, Charles Anton 389 

Phillips, Richard Harvey 421 

Pickering, William R 25 

Pilcher, John E 309 

Pinkerton, Davis Morehead 189 

Player, James Y 248 

Pollman, August Frederick 328 

Poor, Alfred J 384 

Pope, Winfield S 124 

Porter, Dr. William 171 

Potter, Thompson E 24 

Potts, Jerome Dillard 188 

Powell, Robert Carter 249 

Powell, Walter Angelo 40 

Powell, William Lemuel 110 

Powell, Wright Mitchel loi 

Pratt, Wallace 20 

Prescott, John Adams 191 

Prest, Thomas H 192 

Prosser, Thomas J 166 

Pullis, Thomas R., Jr 309 

R 

Ragan, Stephen Hood, M. D 450 

Ramsey, Charles Kirkpatrick 127 

Rassieur, Leo 265 

Rawlings, Arthur Dunstan 122 

Reagan, Charles William 2o3 

Renard, Lewis 128 

Reynolds, George Delachaumette 445 

Reynolds, Matthew Givens 279 

Richards, John Francisco 428 

Richmond, Manley G 444 

Ridenour, Peter D 304 

Rider, David Wilson 202 

Ridge, Isaac M 196 

Rieger, James Chadwick 267 

Roberts, John Calvin 130 

Robertson, George 57 

Robinson, Omar E 195 

Roer, Francis William 365 

Rollins, James M 121 

Rombauer, Edgar R 45 

Rosenthal, George Daniel 119 

Rosenthal, Isaac B 127 

Rothwell, Will A 56 

Rowell, Clinton 130 

Royce, William Kii'gsbury 257 



PAGE 

Rubcy, Harry Marsh 185 

Rubey, Web M 184 

Rule, William A 184 

Rumbold, Frank Meekvr 277 

Rutledge, Charles Waitt 123 

Rutledge, Thomas G 118 

Rutledge, William Askins 122 

S 

Saunders, Daniel Green 13 

Sawyer, Francis Orville 193 

Sawyer, Frank Knovvlton 18S 

Schlange, Eugene H 339 

Schlossstein, Adolphus 385 

Schotten, Julius John 134 

Schuchmann, Gustavus 274 

Schueler, Armin Lawrence Oken 132 

Schuster, Siegmund J 281 

Schwab, Leon J 250 

Schwab, Max 258 

Schwarz, Dr. Henry 395 

Scott, Samuel Franklin 413 

Scovern, John 4 

Scullin, Harry 440 

Sea, John A 439 

Sears, John Harold 188 

Seaver, James Everett 43 

Sexton, Dr. M. P 411 

Shaffner, Louis H 329 

Shattuck, Elias Eugene 174 

Shelton, Thomas Theodore 439 

Shields, George Howell j,yj 

Sheridan, Phil H 443 

Shoenberg, Moses 193 

Sidener, George Brinton 286 

Silverman, Gerson B 225 

Simmons, Edward C 127 

Simmons, Wallace D 132 

Simonsen, Ernest 114 

Simpson, Samuel S 412 

Singer, Louis Bernard 240 

Skrainka, Louis 225 

Skrainka, Morris 221 

Sliger, Frank B 44 

Smith, Eugene Fleming 190 

Smith, George C 78 

Smith, George Rappeen 391 

Smith, M. Freeman 288 

Snider, Chester Allyn 8 

Snow, Forrest 267 

Sommers, David 427 

Spencer, Arthur E 157 

Spencer, Corwin H 441 

Spencer, Hon. Oliver Martin 22 



INDEX 



479 



PAGE 

Spencer, Selden P 4^9 

Spiering, Louis Clemens 233 

Spofford, Thomas Martin 371 

Spratt, William Ernest 60 

Sprinkle, Thomas H 20^ 

Stacy, Charles A 265 

Stanard, Edwin Obed i8s 

Starkloff, Maximilian C 318 

Steele, William D 104 

Steigers, William C 333 

Steininger, Edward A 402 

Stevens, Capt. E. W 98 

Stewart, Henry P 364 

Stickney, William Albert 322 

Stifel, Otto F 282 

Stimson, Edward W 248 

Stix, Charles Aaron 264 

Stocke, Jacob 273 

Straus, Jacob D 440 

Strauss, Ben. J 266 

Strifler, C. E 64 

Stromberg, Benjamin P 268 

Stuppy, Laurence J 30 

Sultan, Frederick W 345 

Swanger, John E IQS 

Swasey, William Albert 316 

Swift, William Henry 327 

Swift, Horace Augustus 426 

Swingley, Charles E 338 

Swinney, Edward Fletcher 191 

Swofford, James J 367 

T 

Tansey, George Judd 319 

Taylor, H. William 448 

Ten Broek, Gerrit H 3I7 

Thayer, William B 50 

Thomas, Charles E. Livingston 118 

Thorpe, Dr. Jefferson L 466 

Tiffany, Flavel B 178 

Timmerman, John H 377 

Toll, Alfred S6 

Tomb, Mrs. Thomas B 160 

Tomb, Thomas Blackwell 88 

Tontrup, Louis Henry I75 

Tootle, Milton, Jr 25 

Traber, Oliver Ray Sexton 448 

Trimble, John McDowell 281 

Tuholske, Herman 256 

Turner, Richard Edward 2 

Traber, Oliver Ray Sexton 448 

Tweedie, John, Sr 462 

Twichell. Jerome 275 

Twiss, Stephen Prince 449 



PAGE 
U 

Udell, Clinton, 194 

Uhl, Oceon Ferdinand 116 

Utz, William H 28 

V 

Valle, Dr. Jules Felix 396 

Vineyard, William 366 

Vogel, Charles Frederick 420 

W 

Wade, Festus J 349 

Walbridge, Cyrus Packard 182 

Walker, David Davis, Jr 445 

Walker, Charles Joseph 183 

Walker, Robert Franklin 342 

Walsh, Frank P 46 

Walsh, Julius S 394 

Walton, Stonewall Jackson 243 

Walton, William E 23 

Ward, Hugh C 226 

Warner, Guile Charles 393 

Warner, William 418 

Watson, Archie E 255 

Webb, George W 149 

Weeks, Edwin R 7 

Wells, Rolla 419 

West, Thomas H 408 

Westen, Edward 400 

Whipple, B. Thompson 49 

Whitaker, Edwards 447 

Whitehead, Charles W 139 

Whitelaw, Oscar Livingston 261 

Whitelaw, Robert Henry 261 

Wickham, Edward F 184 

Wielandy, Paul J 186 

Wilder, John A 44^ 

Williams, John Richard 244 

Williams, Josiah Joplin 203 

Wilpley, Xenophon P 273 

Winningham, Theodore 52 

Winants, William Harry 12 

Winter, George F 170 

Winter, Robert L 224 

Withrow, James Edgar 447 

Wofford, John W I3S 

Wolff, Edward Bates 382 

Wolff, Paul Edward 403 

Wood, Henry Curtis 48 

Wood, John M 345 

Wood, Malcolm Latimer 181 

Woods, William E 131 

Woods, William Stansbury 47 

Woods, Dr. William Stone 176 

Woodson, Dr. Charles R 51 



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PORTRAITS. 



PAGE 

Woodward, Orville Delbcrt 313 

Woolf, Alfred E 431 

Woolf, George 440 

Wray, Charles H 15W 

Wright, Frank Louis 41 

Wright, Joseph Potter 43 



PACE 

Wrisberg, William Charles 3S8 

Wyeth, Huston 418 

Y 

Young, S. H 444 

Z. 

Zumbrunn, William Francis 230 



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Allen, Arthur Mason 307 

Arbuckle, James 35 

Barclay, Shepard 253 

Bard, W. E. Sr 415 

Clarke, W. B 271 

Cockerill, Almond B 2 

Donk, August F 325 

Duncan, Albert B ' 345 

Duvall, William Franklin 235 

Frank, Nathan 397 

Hilarian, Eugene Abadie 17 

Howard, John Lewis 379 

Keith, R. H 107 



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Lyon, Andrew Reason 433 

Mahan, George A 143 

.Mayfield, W. H., AL D 71 

Mclndoe, Hugh 361 

Michaelis, A. C 217 

Pope, W. S 125 

Ridge, Isaac 1\I,, M. D 197 

Ridge, M. D. Campbell 201 

Smith, M. Freenian 289 

Tiffany, Flavel B 179 

Tomb, Maria Harbeson 161 

Tomb, Thomas B 89 

Winningham, Theodore 53 



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